Like the idea of a challenge to write more in November, but know that attempting NaNoWriMo would just end in shame?  Got non-novel things you need encouragement to write, perhaps because currently even very short stories are a huge strain on your attention span and ability to complete things?  Already doing some writing but in need of a place to ( Read more... )

Hello, all!  I should probably make a longer post with actual content by me at some point, but not now.  This is just a drive-by entry to rec some things:

-First, The World on His Wrist, an extraordinary Sherlock fic where John Watson experiences parallel lives.  After he's shot in Afghanistan, his time fractures, leaving him alternating between a ( Read more... )

Thought of the day:  you know what the Whoniverse really needs?  Isaiah Mustafa, the Old Spice guy, playing a Time Agent.  THIS IS THE CASTING IDEA YOUR CASTING IDEA COULD SMELL LIKE.  Can you not imagine him hanging around with young Jack and John Hart, making outrageous innuendos, seducing people of all species and genders, and alternately ( Read more... )

Last night, I had the late night urge to combine my new muffin pan with the blueberries I'd bought at the previous week's farmers' market. Blueberry cinnamon muffins happened.  Yum!  I am the Evil Midnight Muffin Maker What Makes Muffins at Midnight. (Anyone who gets that The Tick reference gets +5 points.)

Today, I did a nice hike up Bishop's Peak ( Read more... )

Meme time!  First, I'm nabbing the "seven things about my writing process" meme from eponymous_rose  and rosa_writes .  (Cue skeptical cries of "you have a writing process?!?"  Yes, I do. It's just so slow that it rarely results in actual fic.)

1.  Stories usually start with a general concept.  I turn that concept over in my head for a while, thinking of some scenes and ( Read more... )

-While sitting in a public park in the ridiculously warm weather, I saw a man bicycling past with a LIVE IGUANA on his back.

-I netflixed Terminator because I'd never seen it before.  I can't really offer much of an opinion on the movie as a whole because I kept getting distracted by the extreme eighties-ness of the hair and clothes and dissolving ( Read more... )

*sigh*

I wait to watch DW until it shows on American TV here so I can call my dad afterwards to talk about it.  He doesn't like the idea of illegally downloading stuff, and I'm not sure if my parents' elderly computer could even handle it.  He's my RL Who buddy, and I want to be on the same schedule as him.  Watching ahead would feel unfair.  ( Read more... )

The writing process is fascinating.  Yesterday I made some progress on "All Thy Pride," the next Illyria story.  (Don't get your hopes up!  It will be a long while yet before it sees the light of the internet.  The story is likely to be lengthy, and I write very slowly.)  Later that evening, while doing something completely different, I suddenly ( Read more... )