So, hey, I've decided to actually make an effort to plot my NaNo novel beyond the first plot point this year! Don't worry, I haven't been body-snatched by a far more intelligent and organized life form or anything, I'm just scared about how I'm going to make this happen. (Full-time work of the ten-hours-a-day plus bar exam requirements plus ( Read more... )

Awkward, awkward words. *prods them* Behave yourselves, bastarding adjectives! Many of you are unnecessary, and some of you are just plain wrong!

How's everybody else doing on chlare's writing challenge? :D? Anyone across the desert yet? I have included, for your reading pleasure, both a literal and a metaphorical desert, for I am insane. Fear me. ( Read more... )

Chocolate. Chai. Latte.

I have discovered nirvana.

That is all.

No, wait, have a snippet of a thing which is becoming awfully fun to write:

“Sit still or it's going to suck. The point of me doing this was to make it look good, dude,” Bob said, wiping black dye off the tip of Gerard’s ear with the edge of the ratty towel around his shoulders ( Read more... )

So much for that! First class cancelled... Profs apparently as reluctant to come back from summer break as the rest of us. Whoot-whoot, another free day of messing around! Just discovered that we get a big ol' helping of Aristotle in our readings for this class though! Yeeeeah, mah homeboy! I fangirl him about as hard as Cicero did. *g*(Am ( Read more... )

So co-editor of the Sarcasm Squad e-mails me two days before the final deadline. "Hey, would you please send me some of the articles you've written?" quoth he, "I only have a vague idea of what the paper is like ( Read more... )

You know why you shouldn't attempt to write when your brain isn't working at full power?

“Just so you know, the prerequisite of many fun things in life is me getting naked,” Pete said, bright and breastless.

And then I laughed until tears happened. Oh my goodness.

So the Bleeds coda-thing currently stands at 4000 words and has a proper title ( Read more... )

Today has involved good coffee, people randomly dropping in to leave full pages of thoughtful commentary on my fic, and braving the mall again to buy a Most Excellent Hoodie in a clearance sale. Life is good! (Hoodie does not have pandas on it, but it does have butterflies. *g ( Read more... )

Done, done, done, fic is done!

And now? Now we edit.

Little sister apparently crept into my room today, stole my iPod, listened to Dresden Dolls songs until the battery was dead and then, unsure of how to recharge it, snuck it back into my purse stone-dead without telling me ( Read more... )

This is the way my brain works. Not with a bang, but a whimper."Gosh, I'd dearly love to put Scene X into Fic Y. But changing the viewpoint character for just one scene might be jarring, as would the rating shift. Hmm. Better leave it out ( Read more... )