Started to do the year meme, stopped. Started to do the fic meme, stopped.

( Wrote a sort of essay about the year and life instead. Some personal griping and lots of rambling. )

I messed up my research project recently and thus have been MIA piecing it back together. Anyway a short thought via rondaview that I think it absolutely 100% correct.


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bellicosus and nthcoincident have had a few discussions with me on the necessity of ingenuity, mystery, negative space, interesting detail, ugliness, and a degree of risk in writing, with their powers combined one would hope to combat boring and predictable fiction. While what we've talked about applies mostly to the technicalities of writing (imagery, scene, form etc) ( Read more... )