gakked from
(who borrowed it from Emily Veinglory’s blog) Comment with the last sentence, or paragraph or such that you’ve written. And then post it in your own journal. …can you guess what fandom I am ripping away from this work? haha! “Aye, I killed my girl.” Tam said soberly. “Four months, I traveled alone, lad, to [...]
Stella’s Writing Meta
has just posted an Open letter to bad fic writers and it’s worth a read, regardless of how well you write. She listed a couple of mistakes that I’ve been making recently, and I appreciate the reminder. Amateur fic writers like what we are, are in a very delicate spot when it comes to critiquing [...]
The Ultimate self-insertion!
On my “home forum” at literotica.com, there is a Time Travel Challenge going on. Most people are inserting themselves into their stories– 500 words or so– but I simply cannot write a flashfic for it, it seems. I have an idea that will be maybe 6-8K words. And the anti-hero protagonist is myself writ large. [...]
random inspirations.
What can inform a character- you never know where you’ll find it. I thought I was wasting my time surfing, when I found this; “I’ve never seen him lose his temper, but I’ve seen the results of it,” says Terry Gilliam. “Broken doors and things; I’ve seen his trailer roughed up a bit. It’s interesting, [...]
Ezra Pound on writing poetry
“No vers is libre for the man who wants to do a good job” And I do. So there will be many more versions of the Blind Gunman, or I may just kick him out, I don’t know which. He also says; “Don’t imagine that a thing will ‘go’ in verse just because it’s too [...]
Weren’t we talking about long-drawn-out beginnings?
I guess the question is- how long and drawn out? I am going through my files, you see, looking for fragments that I can bring to some of the groups here- short bits that will amuse, and let me *cough* show my chops a little. I am amazed at how many intros I have! AMAZED, [...]
A change in perspective
It’s probably a really stupid idea, but- what if i re-wrote the Jack Sparrow story to be from his perspective? Would it be hotter? Or am I dicking around? Hell, I know the answer- really. Stop wasting my time with fanfic, no matter how delicious the character is. Write the story with my own people, [...]
Where to go from here?
*snff!* Poor, neglected Molly! What the hell, I ask you, would she and Lina find to do, the day after a night like that one? The truth is, I have one more sexcapade, wriiten, in the morning time, and then- I don’t know… She will have to go back to Maggie, and tell her that [...]
Names in fiction
I’m a little tired of reading fiction with portentous names. Qu’thalynn… Wolven, the highschool senior (who happens to be a vampire, what a coincidence) Valeria, Morgann. Dragynlea. Dragyn SylvyrShyne. Lynx. When it becomes too much trouble to puzzle out the name’s pronunciation- or, when I find myself distracted by its actual meaning- I tend to [...]
answers to someone’s questions via PM;
This is in reference to my story published on Literotica.com. (ETA: no longer; it is now published here.) I wrote Johnny’s character as a little bit passive, because of who he’s with. I get the sense that he would totally sponge up personality traits from anyone he admired, and people have said he can mimic [...]
