...when you find yourself looking up current ages of consent in France as part of your Merlin fic research. Um. I can explain?

So, I have written a bit more, and now there is kissing. Instead of finishing the kissing scene (and like, one more scene after that, and thus ends the fic -- almost there!), I have decided to spend a few hours doing Very Important Research on medieval underwear. You know, since Merlin is so historically accurate and everything, and I need to ( Read more... )

10,000 words into this draft, and I finally have my two protagonists in one spot. Now what do I have them do? Kissing or something?

...Crap.

I really love writing. Tonight, I met with my good friend (and fellow writing major) so he could help me revise some problematic poems before I consider putting them in my portfolio. I forgot how... I don't know, clean? Refreshed?... I feel after getting lengthy, thoughtful critique on my poetry. I like getting constructive feedback on my prose ( Read more... )

I just sent off a submission to a literary journal. Wheeee holy fucking shit. I am so not gonna get accepted, but that's okay, because at this point I will take anything, even a rejection letter. I am starting to realize that my lack of being published might be a bit of a crimp in my portfolio for grad school. Maybe. Maybe not ( Read more... )

So, Thanksgiving break is basically saving my life. Finals are right around the corner. I'm taking off my college's short January term, so I will have a month and a half to catch up with writing, vidding and work. I am pretty psyched ( Read more... )

Sometimes I make notes in my story drafts of things that I have to go back and fill out later with actual details. Usually, it's stuff like town names or mileages, and I can just ignore the note until it becomes imperative to the story that I go back and actually look shit up ( Read more... )

*kicks writing*

*kicks hormones*

*kicks professors*

*kicks writing again*

Yeah, so that is where I am. I knew this semester would be hard, and it has been hard -- a good hard! Except for right now! Right now is the bad-hard and so now it can just not be hard, thanks. My current plan of action is that I am shoving all my schoolwork under a ( Read more... )

For some reason, even though I felt like going to bed at 9pm, I am still up and it is nearly 1am. Blah! I have been celebrating the weekend by reading through my terrifying, horrifying, SOUL-EATING old (like, OLD) fanfic on ye ol' fanfiction.net. I'm not sure I can emphasize just HOW freaking bad it is. Like, claw-my/your/puppies-eyes-out bad ( Read more... )

Summer! These days, it's work, sleep, and staring at the walls. I keep trying to write and reply to emails and things but my fingers aren't cooperating. They keep typing really dumb-sounding sentences or wandering off to eat junk food. Grarr! I could just give up on all this and read Harry Potter 7 (which is still glaring at me from across ( Read more... )