lalunatique left the following feedback in one of her chapter reviews for my Maikka 2012 epic Trapped in Ba Sing Se:

Some of the dialogue tags felt unnecessary, something I forgot to add to the previous chapter's review but which applies here as well. I can sympathize because I also get the urge to control the way the readers take in the dialogue, the pauses ( Read more... )

I don't know how many of you do this, but I like to check TVTropes' ATLA Fanfic Recommendations page for new entries every so often. It's probably the least reliable of all the things I use to find new things to read (which are mostly various respected people's Favorite Stories list on FanFiction.net, so keep adding to them), but it has the benefit ( Read more... )

Last year, I published my original outline for my Maikka Fortnight story, commenting on how I changed my plans in the writing phase and why. I wasn't planning on doing the same thing this year, as my story was meant to be a lighthearted series of comedic events, but then a plot butted in and brought its annoying friends, the subplots. Since I have ( Read more... )

Taken from amyraine, who stole it from other peoples.

"Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the character’s heads, why ( Read more... )

And yes, there are pirates!

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That's right, thanks to my Awesome Inside Sources (TM), I was able to get a hold of a leaked scene from LoK: Book 2's story bible! Beware spoilers, because this is the final scene in the entire season! This scene is some powerful stuff, and addresses several major plots from both Book 1 and Book 2. Don't tell anyone, though, because I don't want my ( Read more... )

Let's just pretend that lavanyasix didn't have to remind me to post the announcement here. (Sometimes, I forget that LJ is more than just my Friends page.) The info is all in on the Maikka Fans deviantArt group, but those who don't have an account over there can just let me know about any submissions via a note or something over here, and I'll make a little ( Read more... )

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When it comes to the Avatar franchise, it's either boom or bust. Since the original Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon series ended in 2008, little has been released for the property aside from an Art Book in 2010, but that was but a brief sip of water to the thirsty fans traveling across a four-year-long desert. (Then again, it could be worse; ( Read more... )

If you've a frequent reviewer of my stories, I've probably mentioned my longest ongoing project to you at some point. It is called "One Hundred Men" and at one point it had the subtitle of "The Life and Times of Piandao." I've been working on this thing for four years, on and off, as it expanded from a one-shot fight scene to a three-part action ( Read more... )