I reference music quite a bit in the titles of my stories, sometimes because I'm listening to said music while writing them, and sometimes because, in a visual medium, I'd have liked that particular song to be playing ( Read more... )

I had it in my head to write Part 7 of Solo tonight, but it just isn't happening. I know, more or less, what I want to do, but it's just not flowing the way I need it to. Wednesdays are my busy days, I guess, so maybe I'm just tired ( Read more... )

So while building a computer model to show the time-versus-resource processes of hospital admission (I know, exciting, right?), I got an idea for a little series. Tiny in comparison to HNJS, but at least running five or six parts ( Read more... )

He's No Jack Sparrow has been finished for a grand total of two days, and I'm already thinking about where I want to go with the sequel that, given a couple of days to think about it, is most definitely going to happen.

What I think I'm gonna end up doing is, after finishing Spiral, focusing all my attention on one series at a time, so that the ( Read more... )

So I wrote Part 41 of HNJS. And then I proofread it. And then I posted it.

About five minutes later, I decided I hated it and removed it from my journal and deleted it from my computer. Seriously, I was just not happy with it.

This point in the story is more than a transition. It's a complete change in gear. It's still Xander-centric, but it's going ( Read more... )

Sometimes I hate writing.

Scratch that.

( This is where it's scratched. )

“That’d be good,” he said, still cautiously subdued. Despite the joy of the past couple of minutes, it still hurt that he tended toward subdued, even with Willow. “At least that way, when you annoy me, I can hit you with a pillow or something.”

Willow smiled and turned and laced her fingers behind her back and was gone.

And Xander couldn’t help ( Read more... )

I need to name the perspective I use for my work. Third person limited, to be sure, but with a few touches of second person statement and first person inflection.

How about Third Person Limited with Running Commentary?

Cool. Awesome.

He's No Jack Sparrow later tonight.

How very... pink of you.

So. gabrielleabelle   likes Buffy/Spike. She also likes Andrew/Spike.

I wonder what it says about me that I'm not only on the fence about this, but that I'm leaning toward Andrew/Spike. In a funny context, perhaps, but with one exception, most of my birthday pieces have been funny.

Still. What odd considerations I have these days.

All the best.

The first Death Star ( Read more... )

You know, I've written from a woman's third person perspective before. Obviously, most of the writing in this journal (so far) focuses on Xander, but I've also got a little on Willow and one or two pieces told from Buffy's perspective. I just accept that these are all (semi-)adults and run with it, hoping that the actual gender differences aren't ( Read more... )