Right. Supper's been cooked and scarfed, laundry's been folded/in the washer/in the dryer (it's the CIIIIRRRRCLLLEEEEE, the circle of life dirty laundry!), dishwasher is running, homework is done. I have a couple of hours here to attack the Fic Walks Into a Bar. 500 words, two hours, no problem, right ( Read more... )

I signed up for the "Fic Walks Into a Bar" with Cal McCaffrey, because I find him very interesting and the other characters I considered had already been picked several times. But then I got my assignment and realized that I've never actually written Cal (not officially, with any beta~ing or feedback to say whether he sounds authentic or not), so ( Read more... )

(Thanks to karaokegal for the heads-up!)

A Ficathon Walks Into A BarSignups: 15 February to 24 February ( Read more... )

Aw! The Importance of Being Beta-Read has been nominated for a Children of Time award!

If it was someone on my flist who nominated me, thank you very much. And I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. :D

Oh, MAN, I did not need to see this list. The plot bunnies are already gnawing me to death!

ATTENTION YULETIDE WRITERS!

If I understand correctly, it seems that, due to a glitch in the Yuletide coding, Life on Mars (UK) was unintentionally allowed in for this year.

Y'all take all the advantage of this that you possibly can, okay?

(Corrections will follow if I got this wrong.)

So, I'm trying to think of creative ways to break out of the not-writing groove, and looking at Yuletide because people talk about it every year but I've never participated or even really thought about it. There are many good reasons for that ( Read more... )

No way is Nanowrimo gonna work for me this year, but I have signed up to wrisomifu--a challenge to write something--anything--for ten minutes every day in November. ANYTHING. Fic, non-fic, grocery lists, that weird dream you had last night. Also, you are allowed, nay, encouraged to whine and moan about every single word ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to pimp karaokegal's 4th Annual Come As You Aren't party, and I keep forgetting ( Read more... )

GoogleDocs tells me that the fic I am working on has a third-grade reading level.

...um...really?

I do try to keep my style straight-forward and direct, but that seems...very low. Ridiculously low. Dick-and-Jane levels of low.

Sam and Gene are chasing a very bad man. See them run. See the bad man run ( Read more... )