Written for a challenge over at tv-universe where we were asked to create a written entry, centered on a missing or filler scene. This can be fanfic, poetry, meta, etc. I choose to write a meta on a trope called “The Noodle Incident”.

The trope name comes from Calvin and Hobbes:

Hobbes: What about the noodle incident?
Calvin: No one can prove I did that! ( Read more... )

So today is my 400th day of writing 750 words a day. A lot of days -- most days, actually -- this is just a place to toss out my emotions and thoughts on the day. Some days -- not a lot, fortunately -- it's just mindless babble of how I have no idea what to write here and that I need to just keep writing in order to fill out my 750 word quota. ( Read more... )

I would like to join (or start) a writing group. A real life, in person writing group ( Read more... )

In the first hour of the new 24 series, 24: Live Another Day, Jack Bauer -- the lead -- doesn't speak in the first 40 minutes of the show. Yet his is unquestionably the driving force in almost every scene ( Read more... )

Last weekend I went to see Ender's Game with Wil. He really liked the book and wanted to see the movie. I've never read the book, but I really enjoyed the movie, right up until the end. And because the movie has a bit of a twist in the end, I'm not going to actually talk about that -- mostly because I really LIKED the twist. I thought it was the ( Read more... )

Had a date night with the hubby Friday night and we went to see the new Superman movie "Man of Steel". I really liked it. I really liked it for a lot of reasons, not the least of which it has given me lots of meta to think about. I love meta. I’ve written two sessions of meta on it so far, and I haven’t even gotten to the meta I really what to ( Read more... )

I'm going over some old writing/critiques and I've come across the comment that I use the words "he/him" too many times. The scene has only one character in it -- it's a struggle to survive. Not sure how to write it with out using he/him. I understand that I need to vary my sentence structure so I don't start out each sentence/paragraph with the ( Read more... )

I follow Jeff Eastin (creator of White Collar) on Twitter and he had been posting bits of White Collar scripts in the days leading up to each new episode as the season came to an end. I read these little script-bits because I'm always interested in see the creative process at work ( Read more... )

I was reading through my flist and ran across several year-end fic memes where people talked about the fic they wrote this year. Usually, I skim the lists and wish I had written enough to do one. Then it occurred to me that I may have done so ( Read more... )

I have many thoughts (thinky meta-type thoughts) on this season of SPN, but I thought I'd better write up my opinion on what's up with Sam before the show comes along and gives it's explanation. I'm prepared to be invalidated, but the show hasn't disappointed me even when it doesn't do what I want it to. Need I warn you that this is long?

( First of all let me state that I really want Sam to be Sam. )