"When will people learn the difference between laying and lying. You are lying on your bed, not laying. You lay something else down, but you lie [yourself] down.

Who or whom: It's whom did you see, not who did you see. It's who did this, not whom did this.
Answer the question in your mind. If the answer is him, it's whom, if the answer is he, it's ( Read more... )

When I click on "original fiction" in my interest list, I get a looooong list of users who, supposedly, have an interest in, well, reading or writing original fiction. However, when I visit their LJs and look either at their user info or their latest post, 99% of them read or write fanfiction.

What the heck???

Last month, Actias luna, my dear beta for "Found, Never Lost" (which is largely an info-dump but may be interesting if you want to see a beginner progress from the typical 3rd person omniscient to a limited 3rd person POV), suggested we start what I like to call a "no pressure prompt exchange".

It goes like this: we take turns picking a prompt at ( Read more... )

... even if you're not familiar with the Buffy fandom. I have no clue who Donna and the Doctor are, but it's funny nevertheless. Go read: http://nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com/1402415.html 
 

I just stumbled across this when I googled for "types of heroes":

"The Chosen One: must typically fulfill some ancient prophecy and then saves the world, frequently has Jesus complex. Typically requires the help of a Wise Old Man or Elderly Martial Arts Master to fulfill this destiny. Almost always of apparently humble origins. Requires multiple ( Read more... )

One of my favorite threads in the "Writers' Corner" on the Fiction Alley message boards is "Love Scenes Cliches". This post was especially funny:

New things are bothering me, and I’ve only read one ‘love’ scene since my last post. It was a short scene, too, so it’s something of an accomplishment really…

“His penis wept and trembled…” - Pardon? Is ( Read more... )

Dear Pat asked if I would like to archive my stories on Skyhawke and put a good word in for me: I was very touched to read that she considers me "an excellent writer, with a keen eye for keeping the storyline canon".

So now I have a Skyhawke account, which makes me indecently proud - and anxious to write up to everybody's expectations.

"[Writing] means revealing oneself to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind… even that degree of self-revelation and surrender is not enough for writing. Writing ( Read more... )

Here is why I can’t write on the computer: I love the sensation of pen gliding on paper. Swiftly and smoothly in one moment, scratchy and haltingly the next. Almost feverish at times, pausing, then picking up again. Sometimes settling into a steady rhythm, where there is no hesitation and no stopping and no scratching out words. There is just the ( Read more... )

I am so proud of this review someone left me on FictionAlley, I just had to share it with ya'll:

"Thanks so much for writing such a great Draco/Harry story. I had fallen out of HP slash because the quality of stories had gone down dramatically in the H/D arena. But you proved to me that I was wrong!"

Made me all warm and fuzzy inside. *melts*

Feel ( Read more... )