Uh. I'm at that annoying stage in my current fic-in-progress where I just have one last section left to write, and I can't seem to get it out. This happens to me a lot with longer stories -- I know that my endings tend to be kind of flat, so when I get to the point where the ending is in sight, I start fiddling and procrastinating in the vague ( Read more... )

Happy Christmas to everyone who's celebrating!

And here, have a year-end meme.

( My year in fandom. )

The problem with trying to write plotty comics fanfic (well, mainstream superhero comics, anyway) is that you're stuck with a lot villains who have really silly names. Like, here I am trying to write a tense a dramatic scene where Our Noble Hero is menaced by the Evil Dastardly Villain, and I'm stuck having to write sentences like "Red Skull said ( Read more... )

So, after nearly three weeks of banging my head against the metaphorical wall, I'm finally admitting that the reason I've been struggling so much with the second half of this chapter is that I wrote the first half totally wrong and need to scrap it and do the whole thing over again ( Read more... )

Whee, I've passed 10,000 words on my Iron Man Noir fic! Actually, I've passed 10,500, and am hoping to get to at least 12K before the weekend's over. I think I'm maybe halfway through the story, but it's hard to tell because I've reached to point where my outline starts getting kind of vague and hand-wavy ( Read more... )

Now that my Iron Man Noir fic is closing in on 6000 words, I'm thinking I really need to get a beta to help me keep the whole thing from running off the rails. Is anyone up for beta-reading a potentially bigbang-length Steve/Tony story with lots of plot and no actual sex ( Read more... )

OMG! After months and months of my brain being totally useless and empty of stories, I suddenly have enough plot bunnies hopping around that I need to prioritize. Currently in the works:

• An Avatar: the Last Airbender fic for
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Can someone point me to any sort of resource that would tell me what money was worth in 1940 New York? That is, I'd like to know things like typical working-class salaries, rent in a low-income neighborhood, what it cost to ride the subway or buy groceries or have a sandwich at your local diner, that sort of thing ( Read more... )

The picfor1000 deadline has come and gone I didn't write a thing. Man, how pathetic is it when I can't even come up with 1000 words for a picture prompt? The fiction part of my brain is empty. Seriously. It's like a great big gaping vacuum where all the stories used to be. I'm kinda hoping one of the prompts at het_idcrack will nudge something in there; but mostly ( Read more... )

* I rang the new year in fairly quietly last night, with Mom and Grandma and The Boy for company. This is partly because none of us are exactly party animals and prefer a quiet celebration, and partly because The Boy has an awful cold, poor baby. But there was champagne and tasty food and people I care about, so it's all good ( Read more... )