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Voting: Twenty Years Of Stealing My Food
Hello everyone. Voting is now open on whether Twenty Years Of Stealing My Food should go into the Housefic Meta Library. Voting will remain open for one week. Voting is open only to HM members. You can find a discussion thread on the fic here.
I'll be posting another fic for discussion in the next few days.
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Library Branch Locations
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Differential Diagnosis People: Twenty Years Of Stealing My Food
Happy Labor Day to those of you in the U.S., and happy Monday to everyone else. (Yeah, yeah, I know. Monday.)
We're going to get some conversations going on a couple of Library nominations that are out there, and I'd like to also mention that if you've got a story you'd like to nominate, there's a thread for it hereAgain, as a quick reminder, the ( Read more... ) -
Plans for my House rec list
This was originally posted at my journal, and namasteyoga asked me to post it here:
Given the recent upheavals, migrations, etc., I'm planning to update my House rec list over the next few weeks. This will be the last major update, because I'm not really in House fandom anymore. (And now that I've declared this, watch me run back when S7 starts ( Read more... ) -
No, we're not dead
My apologies to all. I've been a bad mod, and been tied up with real-life writing and issues, and haven't been as active here as I'd like.
But ... I'd like to get a couple of things relaunched again, namely both discussions for the Library and some author Q&As ( Read more... ) -
Recommended reading
An essay from 1950 by detective novelist Raymond Chandler about writing: The Simple Art of Murder. I particularly like his emphasis on getting the details right, and the long section on Dashiell Hammett, who was a real-life detective before becoming a writer, that looks at how Hammett's writing works.
A piece by Laura Miller in Salon: A reader's ( Read more... ) -
Fine tuning your writing
I've posted a link to i09's writing tips before, and here's another one. (Yes, it's a science fiction oriented blog rather than fanfiction, but the rules are good for everyone.)
Charlie Jane Andrews notes Four danger signs to search for before finalizing your writing, which will help you identify unneeded adverbs, passive writing, etc. -- even ( Read more... ) -
Rules for writing (some contradictory)
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Character Study: Taub
Yes, an actual new post. Sorry it's been quiet over here. I've been tied up with some non-fic related things lately, but I wanted to get some conversation going again about fic writing and thought this would be a good time to revisit characterization in fics for the supporting characters. And since there's a brand new taub_fest taking prompts and getting ( Read more... ) -
"What's the deal with adverbs?" she asked seriously
OK, so "House" isn't a sci-fi show -- although a blogger at the science fiction web site io9.com once tried to make that claim. (No, seriously.)
Regardless, this post at io9 by Charlie Jane Anders on how to use adverbs in your writing applies to more than science fiction. For example:
In many cases, these adverbs don't tell you anything you didn' ( Read more... )