Acknowledgements

I'd like to thank okypete_harpy and runriggers for beta reading and pointing out my wacky grammar, and unimagine for spotting the really sneaky typos. Also, I'd like to thank everyone who commented on the fic and drew pictures and occasionally asked me when I was going to update (you all know who you are) because, holy crap, I'm not sure I could have finished ( Read more... )

Well, Last Days was going to be 13 chapters with an epilogue... But it's now 14 chapters with an epilogue, because apparently I don't know the meaning of the word 'concise'. I've tried to dock chapter 13's wordcount, but there's only so much that I can remove before stuff stops making IC sense to me. And I liked the idea of it being 13 chapters, ( Read more... )

The whole m/m fiction imbroglio has got me thinking about why I write slash ( Read more... )

( 'Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.' )

Chapter 11 of The Apocafic That Ate Scarlet Carsons' Brain is almost done. So, ehh, 2-3 chapters to go.

( Self-indulgent waffling about writing process. )

I want to go through my stuff and edit out Britishisms.

I ought to be finishing chapter 11 of the WiP, though. Seriously, if I don't complete that story, I'm going to Paypal money to someone so that they can travel to my hometown and kick me in the ladyparts.

Yesterday I went to Tate Modern and walked inside a giant box. Inside it was EXISTENTIAL ANGST. (Miroslaw Balka's How It Is really merits its own post, but I'm feeling very lazy right now.)

I'm also reading Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, and the following quote managed to cheer me up in a horrible sort of way:
...I tell my students that the odds of ( Read more... )

So, I read this post on the art of beta reading. It's the first thing I've ever read that not only made me think, 'huh, I should get my stuff beta read more, and not just for grammar,' but also, 'being a beta reader looks kind of fun ( Read more... )

Today I have learned the difference between the dash and the hyphen. MIND = BLOWN. At first when I found out, I was like, 'Jesus, all this time I've been using hyphens for parenthetical thoughts when I should have been using em dashes OH NO,' but apparently that's okay because the em dash isn't available on my keyboard, and it's acceptable to use a ( Read more... )

So, I'm trying to write the Roche case from Rorschach's POV (as the details in the comic were pretty vague, it leaves a bit of leeway as to what actually happened), and it is turning out to be surprisingly difficult. Rorschach makes for very dry prose, even when he's in the middle of going batshit insane. He's a very Serious Cat. I am concerned ( Read more... )