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Writing
A wee discussion question for you, as I dash off to work with tabs still open to comment on:
What makes good writing? Tell me, as succinctly as possible, what makes you read a story and go, WOW that was SO well written. Make up a well written sentence and a badly written sentence, rec me, whatever you want to make your point, but just a line or so ( Read more... ) -
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(Excuse the spam - two posts in one night! It is partly using my mood theme, yes, but partly gotta get posts in while I'm actually home.)
That First Lines meme!
I had to go back to Dec 07 to get twenty actual stories. Excluding ficlets/drabbles. How far back did anyone else who did this meme have to go? Or would you have to go? I don't think that ( Read more... ) -
Let Sam Eat....Herpes..Heroes and Stalker Meme and Hey
- Anyone else getting nervous about doing Nano or MiniNano? Let us get our writing muscles warmed up.
Anyone who is interested, write a 100 word drabble where Sam eats! They never let him eat in the show. Let us feed him! Gen, porny, anything! I'll post mine tomorrow. Link me here if you can and I'll collect 'em up! Let us get those writing muscles ( Read more... ) -
Writing...& lyrics
We all face the same way, Still it takes all day
I take a look to my left, Pick out the worst and the best
She paints her lip, greasy and thick
Another mirror stare, And she's going where?These are the opening words to 'Traffic' by Stereophonics. I love this song, partly because I like the whole 'journey' metaphor they are exploring, but also ( Read more... ) -
Fic writing and meeting expectations
I have been in fandom for only about a year. It must be my one year anniversary of my LJ soon, in fact. This is the length of time I have been writing fic for. Before that, I wrote stories to entertain myself, but never dreamed I would show them to anyone. (I have partly had these thoughts because one of kellifer_fic's friends said to me 'so you're a writer' ( Read more... )