LJ has just given us another icon slot (145!) and I can't decide what to upload. I am having that itch where I want to weed out the keywords and icons I don't use anymore, delete everything and reupload, in some kind of organized fashion. Maybe this weekend, while I am procrastinating on writing.

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kestrelsan has an interesting post about story length, ( Read more... )

One of the cool things about working with the same beta(s) regularly is that after a while, you start to hear them in your head (or, you know, imagine what their emails will read like) (where values of "you" = "me") while you write, so instead of sending the story off and getting it back with comments about how this sentence is way too long and ( Read more... )

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My spn_summergen is off to beta! I rule!

After some rough patches, and a couple of false starts, I really like it. Now I just hope that 1. luzdeestrellas likes it, and 2. the recipient likes it. I also have to figure out a decent summary. I generally choose a summary that is more thematic than plot-related, and I often choose something that amuses me or is fitting on a ( Read more... )

I had two goals for this weekend (1. finish my spn_summergen story and 2. catch up with Mad Men in time for the s2 premiere) and I achieved neither of them. Sigh.

However, my spn_summergen story is well on its way to being done now. I had a huge crisis about how to get what needs to happen to actually happen, but I flailed at luzdeestrellas and angelgazing and figured out how to make a virtue of ( Read more... )

I started writing this post last week and got distracted and didn't finish it until now. I've used all my own stories here as examples, because I'm familiar with them and can easily lay my hands on the links. As to whether they are actually good stories or good crossovers, well, obviously, I think so, but mileage of course varies.

thefourthvine had a poll on ( Read more... )

This is one of those posts I'd have probably made on Saturday if technology hadn't been messing with me, and it's something I thought about all weekend, so I just need to get it out ( Read more... )

Story still kicking my ass. It's too linear, too straightforward. I am not in love with that part of it, though I do like some of the character stuff coming out of it, and the original idea that is meant to be the climax is still awesome. I hope I can do it justice. Plot is just never gonna be my strong suit, I think. I'm too impatient for it ( Read more... )

Thank you to the people who said nice things about me in the Valentine's game*twirls ( Read more... )

EquinoxNow is the time of year when bees are wild ( Read more... )

There was a (f-locked, hence no link) post on my flist this morning about AUs, and in particular about the differences between always-a-girl AUs that take a canon male character and make him a girl from birth, and genderswap AUs that use sex pollen/alien technology/magic/etc. to have a canon male character "wake up a girl" for a period of time (or ( Read more... )