It's time for my annual plug for one of my all-time favorite communities, getyourwordsout.


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It's time for my annual public post in which I plug one of my favorite communities, getyourwordsout. (And by "time," I mean that literally since I posted a similar post on Dec 18 last year.)


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It's time for my annual public post in which I plug one of my favorite communities, getyourwordsout. I'm not just a moderator, I'm also a client!


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Sign-ups for getyourwordsout 2010 are now open! For those unaware, getyourwordsout is a year-long writing challenge. You sign up with a pledge to write a certain number of words and then write to that goal all year ( Read more... )

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY I SHOULD NOT BUY MYSELF A TACTICAL DEFENSE PEN.

I mean.
It's TACTICAL.
And DEFENSIVE.
AND A PEN.

. . .

It is totally time for the weekend to start.

For all the many writers on my flist, there's a new comm designed to help you getyourwordsout. Based around the idea that the only way to write is to, you know, write, getyourwordsout is designed to help writers stay motivated throughout the year by offering a goal and a community ( Read more... )

It was muggy this morning as I walked down the ramp to the parking garage. So muggy and overcast that it almost combined to form a mist. The light flickered overhead like a power outage threatening in a storm. An alarm, constant from a truck, trill-beeped like an eerie omen. "The zombies are loose," it seemed to say, but that would be ( Read more... )

Many thanks to loriel_eris for alerting me to the fact that my Jack/Daniel fic Bruised was plagiarized and turned into a Jack/Ianto fic called Utility CupboardMuch scorn shall be heaped upon the plagiarist (who has deleted her journal). *scorn ( Read more... )

I really should post this as a feature to fandom_grammar, and maybe I will do a revision, but for now, I have something important to say about First Lines. . . .

Fanfic writers, I have something important to tell you. Your first paragraph is the most important paragraph in your entire fic. That means that your first sentence is the most important sentence. ( Read more... )

Really, the love I have for Joss Whedon knows no bounds.

Joss has been actively supporting the Writer's Strike, which I wholeheartedly support, and posting various things to Whedonesque (thank you elecrtcspacegrl for linking to the posts). Most recently he wrote a beautiful post on writing and why it's work. If you're a writer, you should read it. If you ( Read more... )