OK. Am reading yet another - actually quite excellent - Stargate 'Atlantis claims independence' fanfiction and am struck yet again by one of the most moronic tropes ever, that way too many writers use, i.e. they run out of coffee ( Read more... )

Happy New Year everyone! Hope 2012 is a good one for you. Here's a couple of Weiss Kreuz drabbles to break in the new year:

2012Sally and the children come back to the hotel to find their bags packed. At Sally’s white-faced expression Jei flicks a look towards the twins, says ( Read more... )

Just wanted to say "Good Luck!" to all you wild crazy people out there gunning for another - or your first - gong in the NaNoWriMo marathon.

I look forward to reading the fruits of your seriously insane amounts of, oops, must encourage! labour however big or small they may be.

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It is illegal to have a smoking domestic fire in London (that is, a lit fire in a fireplace that emits smoke ( Read more... )

For: enigel
Title: Stones & Stars
Fandom: Highlander/Sandman
Characters: Methos, Dream
Prompt: Highlander/Sandman, Methos & Morpheus, stars and stones
Rating: G
Thanks: To daegaer for the super beta!

( Stones & Stars )

After a long, long hiatus, another piece of Weiss Kreuz fic.

This was written for dhaunea for the Weiss Day Fic Exchange. My prompt was "Schuldig, Farfarello, teammates", and whilst they're obviously good mates by the time of Kapitel, it occurred to me it would be interesting to explore the origins of their friendship, as I couldn't honestly see them ( Read more... )

So after a hiatus of 14 months I am finally writing again.

Here is my first effort, a piece of James Bond fic set pre-"Casino Royale". This was very kindly beta-ed by daegaer and snowballjane - thanks guys!

This is the first in my set of 'General Cliché' fanfics for 10_cliche_fics, where I claimed James Bond/Villiers, M's Chief of Staff/Aide (table here). We never actually ( Read more... )

I just realised I completely forgot to post my yuletide story! So here it is. Written for Icey, it's Viewfinder (aka Finder no Hyouteki), and an NC-17 Asami/Takaba PWP.

Title: Onsen
Summary: Takaba wins a free weekend at an exclusive hot spring hotel (onsen) - or does he?
Warning! Rough sex, of slightly dubious consent (though to be honest, I'm not sure ( Read more... )

Link: Writing Believable Dialogue by Glenn Patterson

A very useful article, courtesy of the feed from pbackwriter, who also has a very good example of how to get from flat 'n boring brief character interaction to believable dialogue.