(This post is spoiler free!)

So I don't like Game of Thrones.

I had so many friends who were screaming about it for so long that I figured there must be something to it, and I was finally compelled to start watching when I wanted to know what the hell everyone in the office was blathering about all the time ( Read more... )

What would you say is your greatest strength about your writing? Or, alternatively, the weakness (if you think there is one)? from
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• There's probably an interesting discussion to be had about the influence subject matter has upon style, and vice versa. For my practical-writing-exercise-purposes, I determined that, while Mishima could by definition sit down and write nutty neodruidic-inspired-postapocalyptic-science-fiction in his own style, it's probably not possible for me to ( Read more... )

Well since Rethi and Raphi are doing titles, and since it's been a few months since my last titles infodump, might as well do another one :D

( Titles pt. 2 )

Fandom secret: a large part of my motivation to start writing fanfic was simply to force myself to finish a lot of stories. Prior to my fandom debut, I'd written very little for about two or three years, and it occurred to me that, while I had lots of half-finished stories lying around, I had very few actually-finished stories lying around, and I ( Read more... )

There's a famous quip in compsciland: "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things."The same thing totally applies to story-writing. (Well, the naming things part. Cache invalidation, not so much.) I think titles are hard, and I guess I'd like to blather about some of my title-ing adventures, and ( Read more... )

So there's this blog called Letters of Note that's been popping up on Hacker News lately (I have no idea why it keeps popping up on Hacker News, as it has nothing to do with hacking, but whatever). Basically, the blog posts various interesting letters and notes-mostly letters written by famous folks, but there's a few cute randos in there as well ( Read more... )

( Cut for length. Lots of writing process-related rambling ahead. )

I love looking at artists' sketchbooks and works-in-progress - there's just something so fun about seeing the lines and shapes in a rough sketch, or watching how a project progresses and changes as it gets closer to completion ( Read more... )