Pronouns are my new enemy ( Read more... )

Real Life:
Boy am I moody!

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Okay, so how do I capture the "flavor" of steampunk ( Read more... )

I owe big squishy hugs to race_the_ace for keeping me on point and editing when I was sinking into despair and in danger of ODing on Netflix marathons of Anime I haven't seen.  Edit Wars FTW!

I chopped, hacked and remixed pieces and parts of Lizards last night and I think I might have an ending.  I need to go back in and fill in the gaps and rewrite a few ( Read more... )

I feel like I'm committing murder!  I've been hacking away at my baby.  *sniffles*  It is a shell of its former enormity.  I went looking for pieces and parts and found the 2007 edit I had done, and that one had 202,769 words ( Read more... )

I found another 20k of Lizards when I went looking for another scene I remembered.  So now the 30k I had left is up to 70k.  This story is too big ( Read more... )

RL: We're going down to zero tonight!  Brrrrr!

RL: Despite my previous decision not to do a lot of cons this year, I'm going to go to Starfest in Denver in April.  Denver is on my Museum Tour list, and Ben Browder is gonna be there, and the Con Rate for the Hilton was cheaper than the Ramada, I figured, why not?  So, Denver.  Hopefully, there's no ( Read more... )

Arrggghhhh!!!  Stomp, stomp, stomp.  I lasted 10 days.  But I can't stand editing this old crap anymore!  2013 Donna hates 1998 Donna, very, very much.  The story I'm working on now has turned into a complete rewrite.  And it was 27,000 words originally, so yeah.  Ick.  I got 2200 words in tonight ( Read more... )

Once upon a time there was a girl who liked to write.  She spent many, many, many hours writing with her elf-loving friends over the course of some fifteen years or so.  Now, most of what was produced was pure dreck and good only for the practice it gave our heroine in Thinking on the Fly and Dialogue in Character and World Building 101 ( Read more... )

And that is that.  No more hurt comfort bingos for 2012, I'm all in.  There's still time on the clock, but I'm wiped out and need to call it a night ( Read more... )