That moment when you mean to use the "like a moth drawn to the candle" imagery in an Age-of-the-Trees fanfic set in Valinor and realise it doesn't work. Moths die in candles because they mistake our artificial lights for bright lights in the sky, particularly the moon. BUT IN THIS SETTING, THE MOON DOES NOT YET EXIST. Instead, we have two very ( Read more... )

... my NaNo rebellion, that is. Because I'm done ( Read more... )

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BUT I FINALLY WROTE MAITIMO'S CORONATION SCENE. *weeps tears of joy*

Only took six years in real time to get there, too. Now if I manage to get up to Fingolfin's coronation, I may actually finish the bloody story! Woo hoo.

Right. Move on, nothing to see here. Just had to get that out of the system. Goodnight!

[B2MeM - Back to Middle-earth Month - is a Tolkien fandom event sort of thing every March. If you couldn't care less about my fannish exploits, feel free to skip this entry ( Read more... )

(discovered via Elleth.)

The 22 rules of Storytelling, according to Pixar#1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes ( Read more... )

50,032 words ( Read more... )

During my second or third re-reading of the Sandman series, I was bitten by a plotbunny for a graphic novel that I always wanted to... write? draw? create, anyway. (Random aside: Mark of Mark Reads currently reads The Sandman.)
I actually drew a few (really crappy) panels, and I wrote a few scenes in all-text.
Basically, it was a Silmarillion/Real ( Read more... )

March is almost upon us.
Because a lot of really important stuff is happening in March [3019 TA] in The Lord of the Rings, the Anglophone Tolkien fandom traditionally celebrates "Back to Middle-earth Month" in March. Because this is the year of The Hobbit, this year it's a Hobbit event ( Read more... )

or, MEFA results are in!

( The proud writer rambles. Indulge me. Or not, but bear with me... )

Zum Thema: Schreiben! (Wahrscheinlich kommt später noch was Längeres, aber das dann Englisch und mit viel Zitiererei, jetzt geht's aber erst mal um eine Frage, die ich habe ( Read more... )