I wrote two fics this year and received two. I defaulted and didn't think I'd get any, so I couldn't believe my luck. You should read my gift fics, if you're in the Old Kingdom fandom! I have two adventure/exploration fics for Lirael and the Disreputable Dog, as they go exploring in the great Clayr library: After Hours by the_antichris and ( Read more... )

Hello flist I hope you've been having a good day I HAVE TWO YULETIDE GIFTS

I went to bed thinking, "Tomorrow I get to open my gift!" and this morning SUDDENLY THERE WERE TWO

AND

ANDboth of them were awesome adventure fics. Which is what I ask for all the time (I would like to hereby apologize to any of my writers who saw my requests and were ( Read more... )

Poetry: On
( Read more... )

So a couple of weeks ago Amazon announced that they are allowing the sale of fan-written fiction (fanfic, fanfiction, fic, ficcies 1, etc) for select fandoms through their site. Here is the announcement: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001197421Read more... )

( brief writer agony: augh, historical fiction! )

1. If you wish to make an argument and also would to preface with a disclaimer that you are not talking about x, or that you understand y ( Read more... )

This is backdated (date: October 4, 2010) to keep the signal boost on top ( Read more... )

If you think you know something (that is unfortunately wrong) you're not going to go research it. Truly. If you think that loam is a gritty sort of sand, you're not going to look it up! You are under the (mistaken) impression you're right, so you just add the word in where silt might be better.

Some of these facts are not well known. Would someone ( Read more... )

I think it's the drama and the not infrequent cat-fights that erupt on fanficrants that makes me follow it. That site requires extremely clipped thoughts, or else you'll provoke someone into throwing down the gauntlet and all but challenging you to a duel. Look for the entries that have at least 100 comments added; that's where you'll find the real ( Read more... )