I read John Scalzi's nonfiction essay collections "Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded" and (on the business of writing) "You Aren't Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop To A Coffee Shop. (Best title ever.) I love his writing voice and his down-to-earth sensible (and, full disclosure, liberal) worldview.  But it reminded me of one of the primary ( Read more... )

Traditionally, Middlemen preferred to see potential apprentices in life-or-death situations before making any kind of job offer.  Nothing could substitute for getting a firsthand look at him (or her, the Middleman amended) under the gun. Now he took a deep breath and waited for the right psychological moment before he stepped in.

A bar-room ( Read more... )

I guess I must be a girl after all. I'm wearing a brand-new outfit today, and it's put me in a good mood.

( Further homey details. )

People from mm_ww  can regard this as an epilog or sequel to "The Guy in Second Place." People from leverage_on_tnt  can regard it as a practice piece where I try to get a handle on the various Leverage character voices. Two fandoms I like had characters with the same last name, I couldn't resist. I have no idea if I will ever attach a full-fledged Leverage plot to ( Read more... )

I have just finished a fanfic which clocked in at 30,000 words and took me right at three months. With the possible exception of a novel/novella around 1990, that makes this the longest piece I've ever finished. I'm not entirely happy with a few bits toward the ending, but it needed to be finished.

(for those who tuned in late but are interested, it ( Read more... )

The Boy is back to some of his old behavioral tricks at school, e.g. refusing to do his work. Things were going much better for a while there, sigh. Supportive Teacher is still supportive.

I must be a real writer, because I just missed a deadline. Self-imposed, but still. I was hoping to have the (clearly last) chapter of my Middleman fanfic in the ( Read more... )

My old account from several years ago is still there, at Blue Fenix, with lots of stories from my older fandoms in there. The fanspace.com site mentioned in that bio, however, is long gone.
My new stuff (for my new fandom, see previous posts, is fun to write for) will shortly be on fanfiction.net under the new pen name The Blue Fenix.  Because I ( Read more... )