I have been feeling despondent about the news, as indeed who has not, and then I had a brainstorm of a way I could raise some money for the ACLU: writing ficlets ( Read more... )

Is anyone else doing NaNoWriMo? I'm about a day behind on my words because I only settled which idea to write on the evening of the first, but so far the writing is going well, although as generally happens at this point in the writing process it feels very disjointed ( Read more... )

hc_bingo is open again! I'm so tempted to sign up; it's always been my favorite bingo, and it's also been a while since I wrote any fanfic, so maybe it would get me going again ( Read more... )

I finished a draft of the Sage novel! Oh my God, I actually have a draft! It only took... four years to complete, oh wow, but I wasn't actively working on it for most of those four years so that's not as bad as it sounds ( Read more... )

Yet again I am trying to rewrite the novel about Sage and her three best friends in their senior year of high school as they apply to college, bake snickerdoodles, study calculus, and discuss whether or not niceness is for suckers ( Read more... )

I sent out a query letter! It's only been... a year and a half since I sent the last one...

Next time I should try to be more prompt.

But still! Query letter! Sent!

Total Word Count: 160,668 words

Total Number of Fandoms: Two, I guess. Almost all Captain America, with one Pepper & Natasha fic set during Iron Man 2. (I’ve been thinking about writing a PepperNat sequel to that one. “I’ll miss you after leaving Stark Industries,” Natasha said ( Read more... )

Picture books, picture books! The most thought-provoking one I read today was Ken Kimura's 999 Tadpoles, not so much for the content, but because it was originally published in Japanese and translated into English later. It seems to me that picture books are uniquely suited to be translated from language to language - the pictures, after all, are ( Read more... )

Anyone else doing NaNoWriMo? I waffled about it all of yesterday, but I woke up this morning and decided to heck with it, I might as well do it. Naturally this puts me behind, but I should be able to catch up. I already hit 2000 words this morning and I'm hoping to get to 4000 by this evening. Of course the beginning is always the easiest ( Read more... )

27 - Where is your favorite place to write, and do you write by hand or on the computer ( Read more... )