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List of stories and other misc. stuff
What you'll find here: mostly stuff related to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, or various adaptations thereof ( Read more... ) -
dreamwidth account
I don't have much internet access at the moment, and I just logged in here yesterday to find yet another nail in livejournal's coffin ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts about translation
(This was written with voice dictation software, so please excuse any weird capitalisation or punctuation.)
Make_believe_world recently posted a Russian translation of one of my fics, which has also been translated into Polish. (which I think is really cool, and here are the links: Russian, Polish though I don't know if there is anyone on my f- ( Read more... ) -
Fic rec
Fic rec: Promises, by an anonymous author. Also on AO3 here.
This was written for me as part of the holmestice fic exchange. It's set in the verse of the 2013 Russian TV adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, and it's that rare thing: a really well written, gripping, long, gen casefic ( Read more... ) -
Fic length: fic for gift exchanges versus fandom in general
Prompted by a comment by colebaltblue, I wanted to take a look at the difference between fic written for gift exchanges and fic in general.
I had to use fic posted to AO3, since it's pretty difficult/impossible to automatically scrape information about fic posted to LJ or scattered across many other websites. I did scrape livejournal once, to look at fic ( Read more... ) -
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Mini_Wrimo 2016
This is a comm for people for whom NaNoWriMo is a bit too much, but who still want to try to write a certain number of words each day in November.
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yuletide nominations
I just finalised my yuletide nominations: Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot (Anyone else remember that one? I knew the books first, but the TV series is great too, and there are loads of episodes on youtube.When I tried to nominate characters for The ( Read more... ) -
Automatic prose analysis tool
This morning I tried using an online prose analysis tool. Most of them you have to pay for, but I tested a free one called ProwritingAid. My only previous experience with this kind of thing was the so-called grammar corrections in Microsoft Word, which are pretty much 100% wrong. This online tool turned out to be a bit more advanced ( Read more... )