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Random crap I wrote today
Not quite free-writing (I've poked at it a tiny bit) from the prompt: "Roosevelt buried the shoe in the back yard, then took off."
Roosevelt buried the shoe in the back yard, then took off. Or at least tried to. The white scales of his pudgy underbelly hovered over the neatly manicured grass for a moment before he flopped back to earth. It ( Read more... ) -
Emma the Vampire - Done! Gifts - final edits!
All the Emma the Vampire stories are done! The last four are just with wikivic for proofing and then they shall be available here on a specially f-locked post for all (friends obviously) who wish to see them. Woo!
These have taken a lot longer than I intended, but I'm glad I stuck with it - I hate letting projects dangle unfinished and it would have ( Read more... ) -
the things you find yourself looking up...
Today for one of the stories in my Gifts series I was looking up the effects of a bad trip on mushrooms and what you should do if someone you know is having a bad trip.
The average writer's search history has got to be pretty weird. Just off the top of my head here's some of the searches I've made for stories and novels:- a formula for calculating ( Read more... )
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yay gym!
This completely unrelated to writing but I think I have found the ultimate gym playlist (for now) and so I feel I should share it ^_ ( Read more... ) -
Eee!
Only one more Emma the vampire story to edit and then they're done!
Doesn't give me much to post in the way or writings, but I'm that excited ^_^ -
Fanfiction
I love fanfic. It's true - it's a guilty pleasure of mine. Well, I feel like I ought to feel guilty, but it's just so great! Crossovers are my kryptonite - I'm a sucker for a bizarre, so-crazy-it-might-just-work idea, pulled off with simple effective writing *happy place*
Fanfiction gives me the chance to dive in and go with the flow of writing ( Read more... ) -
Random poetry
Up late for no reason 'cept get be bothered going to bed so thought I'd finish off a poem that I've been poking at for a while. I'm still just experimenting with poetry with no real plans for what I write except what turns up on the screen.
And so:
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(Untitled)
For this prompt on characteraday
What is this item? The wings of a magical creature - fairy-like but human sized
Who owns it? A collector - the creatures shed their wings as they grow. Collectors take them because they can tell there's magic in the wings, but don't have a way to access it...yet.
How important is it to the story? Could be a side-line (quirk to ( Read more... ) -
spooky house
For this prompt on characteraday .
What is this Place Called and Where is it?: Home to someone. It's miles from anything else.
Genre of Story: Short story - something dark, not necessarily horror, but tormented.
Describe the Place in Your Own Words: A large house with an old history, empty now and left to the last in the family. Everything has been stripped out ( Read more... ) -
Writing ambience
I was going to post up some more free writing today, but I decided to finish off a Gift story during anime last night, so no new writings today.
I was thinking about the way I like to write though. So many writers seem to have a writing area with a desk and a proper chair and things. I write the same way I do most things in my flat: curled up on ( Read more... )