All the furor about "How will Charles and Camilla's marriage OMG affect Australia?!" has been quite annoying because, as far as I can see, the answer is: it won't at all. The British royal family is so irrelevant to Australian politics. The reigning monarch appoints the Governor-General, always on the advice of the Prime Minister, and gets his or ( Read more... )

I want to do this mostly because I'm curious about the NaNos of you lovelies who are doing it. Now that you've read this sentence you must now do this meme or you will get writers' block! Mwahahahahahaha!

If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence from each of ( Read more... )

This is for avariecaita, who thinks I never do anything just for her.

( Summer, non-fiction )

avariecaita, it's your birthday here already, and I wish you so many good wishes for your day! Drink up, hon, make it a good one, and all the best for the future. You've been many things to me and somewhere in my first novel will be *your* sweat and blood and support. I'd write you a fic if you said you wanted one, but you might just have to settle for the ( Read more... )

More bloody 5-minutes, because she delights in keeping me from my mad cramming. amirah_kaessi was in on the action this time, too.

( Four 5-min challenges on seasons: summer, autumn, winter, spring )

avariecaita and I have been at it again: one word, five minutes, write like a woman possessed. Today we decided to do four challenges, one on each of the elements. Mine somehow became connected; I quite like the little story I've created.

( 5min challenges: Water, Earth, Wind, Fire )

You know what makes a person sexy? Creative passion. That's all that does it for me. "Oh, you paint? Please marry me." I fall for someone when I see that spark of creativity, that raw emotion or passion that they've transformed into something approaching art. I don't know what's so seductive, if it's the intimacy that they send out to no one so ( Read more... )

HI ( Read more... )

We just had a power outage this afternoon, which was not fun, but what can you do. It was only a couple of hours. The only annoying thing is that I was doing a quick writing exercise and was just about to save when the power went. So I went away and dyed my hair red. It doesn't show up well since my hair is very dark but I've been feeling so mousy ( Read more... )

I am, despite appearances to the contrary, just a casual fanfic writer. A social one, too -- often I write a fic because avariecaita suggests or directs me to a challenge. I can stop anytime I want to ( Read more... )