It bothers me how fiction has become so formula. Or at least the advice on writing it certainly has ( Read more... )

Writing is not usually difficult for me. Way, way, way more ideas than hours in the day ( Read more... )

A meme yanked from a couple of Most Excellent sources.

Work in Progress (WIP) meme
Post a sentence (or two) from as many of your WIPs as you want, with no explanation attached. Bonus points if you recognize any of 'em ( Read more... )

I need a name for a character, in my hard SF/alien serial killer thing ( Read more... )

Yay, I was a good gryphon today, and spent an hour or two on an edit pass over the first two or three chaptes of The BlackThe little writing group I'm in had some good feedback that I hope I've managed to work in, in terms of setting up a little more tension early. I refused to start with a fight scene, because GAWD I'm tired of that. The whole " ( Read more... )

A couple of artist folks on my F-list have commented about a lack of inspiration, and asked for ideas.

So here's a slightly edited scrap from a story of mine. I think it's evocative, maybe it'll inspire. Or maybe not. :>

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OK, so maybe my writing isn't published yet.

But my art has been, as a cover for someone else's writing.

And I gots me a money order payment, in hand. With my name spelled right, and everything.

Pretty cool.

EDIT: This is a large version of the original.

Well that was really nice. bfly and I went to B&N with a couple of friends, for the purpose of writing. Well, she went to read, while we three wrote. I pumped out about 1,500 words on A Natural History of Gryphons, which I posted over on stoda_writes.

I think we're going to make a weekly thing of this, which is good. I need to get writing again.

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Just... squee!

An ahhhrrrrt I did will be used as a book cover! And I get monies for it! Not much, and small press, but hey...

Link here.

Now if only I could get one of my stories published... through a 'real' press...

But for now, I'm just wandering around squee-ing occasionally.