Purposefully posting this to my personal account even though it relates to ogsafehavenI'm working on the background & characters for my original story and pinging in the back of my head is the pov. Not only for the story but my writing style pov ( Read more... )

What the heck...I'll do this too.

It goes like this: you go to page seven (or seventy-seven) of your WIP and select seven lines to post. Then you tag seven other people to play.

Finding 7 stories was easy. Finding 7 lines was much harder.

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I'm expanding a short fic into a longer fic for a big bang and one of the chapters I can't figure out how to reference the original story without actually using the original story.

eta I think I figured out how I can do this. I can use the dialog because the rest brings up stuff I will have mentioned earlier in the story and i don't want to be

if a fic you edit gets more comments/kudos than something you wrote, how does that make you feel?

I'm confused and yeah, a tad bit jealous.

but I guess it's really a testament to how good their story is, but then that still doesn't make me feel any better.

how to I get my Word spell checker to stay in US English ( Read more... )

I'm beta reading something for someone (whose native language isn't English...I don't think) and they straight copied and pasted wedding vows from somewhere for Danny and Steve, but didn't change the feminine words to masculine!

I already have my work cut out with the other parts I'm beta reading for them for another story.

I beta checking a chapter of a fic and while it's only the 2nd chapter, I wear this author is comma happy and anti-all other punctuation.

It's making my already present headache worse, but I'm determined to help this author because I like the simple story she has going.

I've got roughly 2 months and 6 days until my rough draft for journeystory is due. I signed up back in June, so by all accounts, I should be wrapping this baby up. however, I'm still tweaking it and scrapping my (I lost count of the number) idea and going back to the probably 3rd idea I had. A collection of letters between Danny and Steve written during Steve' ( Read more... )

working on a Danny and Grace fic that I hope turns out fluffy

I was hoping that it would work with my
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I kinda sorta hate it when readers don't read warnings, author's notes, summaries and leave comments/questions when the answer in given in the warnings, author's notes and/or summary.

We don't write up that stuff for the hell of it, okay, maybe some do, but I don't.

If I bold, underline and/or italicize that the piece is an AU one shot where 5-0 ( Read more... )