In honor of me not yet starting to write NaNo stuff today
I am thisclose to murdering my next-door neighbor, who has a truly baffling concept of what keeping your music to yourself means. So:
Multifandom fic recs for a nice Saturday
kvikindi wrote "On the Uses and Disadvantages of Living Among Spectres," a Rivers of London Nightingale POV story that nails the voice and leaves room for more. (It's listed as Part 1/2, but this writer doesn't leave WIPs out to dangle, so.)
august_the_real and
pene wrote "Retina Burn" in 2002; it's this deeply felt, deeply observed sort-of-but-not-but-almost-but-but-but CJ/Toby thing about how they meet in college and just go from there. Really incredible character work.
ashisfriendly wrote "Truth or Dare," which is just really darling/explicit Parks & Rec Ann/Leslie first time. That's it, that's all you need.
otter wrote "Numqvam tē tradam," which I suspect is along the lines of a lot of The Martian returning-to-Earth fic we'll see at Yuletide this year, and I'm just really happy about it. Beck/Johanssen/Watney and good voice and good feelings and good jokes.
General writing resource stuff
6 Ways to Firm Up Your Novel’s Saggy Middle, which I am definitely going to need in the future, as I just sort of skipped over the whole middle of my NaNo and went straight for the end.
Sometimes Writers Block Is Really Depression, from author Mary Robinette Kowal, nails it.
Rebecca Skloot, the journalist behind The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, has a good list of resources that apply to fiction and nonfiction alike.
Writing advice in 10 minutes from Patti Smith, and OMG, it's great.
Rejection letters what they really mean - i.e., it's not automatically that you're terrible and will never make it as a writer.
30 Uncommon Character Development Questions is a meme, but it's also probably a good writing exercise.
10 Significant Factors That Helped Me Get Published from Delilah Dawson is just good to hear and reiterate.
Writing with a busy schedule, from StoryStudio Chicago
Kurt Vonnegut on writing, his famous eight tips.
Fantasy, Fairy Tales and Science Fiction from the Jewish Book Council - I've read some of these, and am pretty intrigued by others.
And finally,
JezebelCharms is good jewelry for book and knowledge nerds. Give it a look-see.
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Multifandom fic recs for a nice Saturday
kvikindi wrote "On the Uses and Disadvantages of Living Among Spectres," a Rivers of London Nightingale POV story that nails the voice and leaves room for more. (It's listed as Part 1/2, but this writer doesn't leave WIPs out to dangle, so.)
august_the_real and
pene wrote "Retina Burn" in 2002; it's this deeply felt, deeply observed sort-of-but-not-but-almost-but-but-but CJ/Toby thing about how they meet in college and just go from there. Really incredible character work.
ashisfriendly wrote "Truth or Dare," which is just really darling/explicit Parks & Rec Ann/Leslie first time. That's it, that's all you need.
otter wrote "Numqvam tē tradam," which I suspect is along the lines of a lot of The Martian returning-to-Earth fic we'll see at Yuletide this year, and I'm just really happy about it. Beck/Johanssen/Watney and good voice and good feelings and good jokes.
General writing resource stuff
And finally,
JezebelCharms is good jewelry for book and knowledge nerds. Give it a look-see.
This was originally posted on Dreamwidth, where it has
comments. I would love to hear from you at DW! If you can see this post, you can comment here using OpenID. Thanks!