....I have a staff meeting tonight at work (BOO!) and also there's a new episode of BONES tonight (YAY!) which I had forgotten about when I promised you a new chapter BUT I WILL NOT LET THAT STOP ME FROM BEING AWESOME. I will have the chapter up sometime between very late tonight and very early tomorrow morning (for me) which means all the Brits ( Read more... )

I am busily typing away on my takingitinturns fic. I am hoping to have it finished tomorrow and posted the first part of next week. I have been incredibly fail at deadlines lately.

I finished the editing of a short story I wrote 2 years ago, The Rainmaker. I'm going to be shopping it around to a few magazines and such, so keep an eye out for that ( Read more... )

At the start of an otherwise-positive review of the opening chapters of my original novel, Leaven of Malice at website called YouWriteOn, the well-meaning critic began his/her review with the phrase "I thought I was reading yet another vampire story with a strong female protagonist".

Yet another vampire story with a strong female protagonist.

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This entry shall come to you in several parts.

Part the first: My brother is getting married. OMG.I've spoken before about the wedding of doom, and the scale of the event which we are planning (it occurs to me that this totally needs a custom tag), but suffice to say that it's been interesting around here. We're still more than a year away, but ( Read more... )

Okay, ladies and gents. It is my birthday. All I want this year are some prompts ( Read more... )

How about a little Old Skool fandom iconage for a Saturday afternoon? Good, yes?

First, a little... radar bump for a friend of mine. After my rant a few days ago, my good friend katmorning wrote an essay about how to (correctly) write children in fic. That is here. I recommend it ( Read more... )

I have writer's block. I am doing a meme to cheer myself up and inspire me.

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. (If you absolutely can't write, maybe find a creative ( Read more... )

Stayed up late last night watching Nerimon's series "Alex reads Twilight" and became quite amused that he had several of my reactions to the prose in that particular book. (Namely: Oh God, this got published?)

Here's my problem with Bella Swan. Well. Lots of things bother me about Bella Swan, but mostly she makes my feminist hackles rise. She only ( Read more... )

So, in the past... uh... 15 hours or so? I have written 18 short pieces of fiction. I'm done, by the way. Everyone who got their prompt in before I fell asleep last night has received a drabble. I'm supposed to be getting Chapter Fourteen of Scarecrow ready to go now... Don't say I never did anything for you, flist ( Read more... )

This weekend was awful -- so was yesterday. I don't really want to talk about it. I'm going to just say that things are more settled now than they have been in a while, but it wasn't an easy... transition, I guess. You'd never know it from the way I conduct myself here, but I'm very... unassuming in real life and don't often stand up for myself. ( Read more... )