Writing a novel is like being in a relationship: First you find an idea with which you have sparks, and right away you’re infatuated and eager to starting developing it. And you start writing and it’s just so exciting and you adore it and things go almost effortlessly smoothly. But after a while the new relationship energy is spent and the ( Read more... )

I have my Yuletide assignment and it is awesome. They requested a character who might well be my favorite character in the canon except that there are so many wonderful characters in the canon that I really can't pick a favorite. And said character is a really amazing female character and I so love writing awesome women being awesome ( Read more... )

Depression fucked me up big time again this quarter. (Well, it's mostly depression. There's so social anxiety mixed in as well that exacerbated it, and now we're looking into the possibility that I might have ADD. Comorbidity sucks.) Goddammit, 2012 was supposed to be *better*! And the quarter started off so well too. I just want to be functional; ( Read more... )

Had a scene in mind, ended up casting it with a pair of my favorite old characters. Start describing the guy ... wavy dark hair, green eyes ... wait, crap, I was trying not to make this sound like he's based on Kurt, there's enough autobiographical-ish stuff in this scene already. Thing is, it's totally unintentional, the character existed and ( Read more... )

The Firefly-themed production of Pirates of Penzance that I teched for at the beginning of the quarter is getting a reprise! Someone wants to set up a big new scholarship and as publicity for it (don't ask me what the logic of this is; I have no clue) they're paying us to run the show for another weekend, in June ( Read more... )

So, I'm currently teching a Firefly-themed production of The Pirates of Penzance. It's a wonderful show - it's done by a campus Gilbert & Sullivan company that I love working with and I've been a tech ninja for every show they've done since my freshman year, and the combination of Firefly and The Pirates of Penzance works almost scarily well and is ( Read more... )

Sharon: Well, they're both prisons on islands that start with 'A' and have a 'Z' in them. ...Though Alcatraz doesn't have any dementors, at least as far as I know.
Me: Or maybe that's why San Francisco is so foggy.
Sharon: It all makes sense now!

This is the post of flail I've been wanting to post for the last two weeks but couldn't because I was the only one to write it for Yuletide and there was too much danger of revealing my identity ( Read more... )

This Yuletide, I wrote ALL THE FICS. (And I still have a whole bunch of fics I want to write for NYRs ( Read more... )

They're rather last minute, but hey, I have Yuletide recs, and before the reveal ( Read more... )