That moment when you stumble across someone on Tumblr posting reactions as they read your fanfic. Totally made my day ( Read more... )

^ Lookie what I got (points to icon). :)

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I did it! Not only did I pass my (updated) goal of 20K words, I passed 25K! That's half a regular NaNoWriMo. Considering my extremely limited schedule (although getting a lot of unexpected time off when all my work shows were canceled for Boston Marathon bombing coverage gave me more time than I was expecting), I'm pretty pleased I could get out ( Read more... )

Here's a new one for me in my writing: a triple quote (quote within a quote within a quote.) I have a character reading aloud from a book a passage that contains dialogue. So " " around what my character is saying, ' ' around the passage she's reading, and " " around the dialogue within the passage she's reading. Funky.

Example:

Sue picked up the ( Read more... )

1148 words! Woohoo!! Okay, some of it was freewriting and not story proper, but words are words. :)

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Gonna make a plug here for a friend of mine, author Aaron Allston, who has just released a book on plotting (e-book only atm) called Plotting: A Novelist's Workout GuideIf you're a Star Wars or Terminator fan, you might have read some of his licensed books for those universes, but let me give you my personal plug. I have a BA in Creative Writing ( Read more... )

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Sorry to post this here, but I got another guest review that deserved a response, so this was the only place I could really post it. Hope "S" sees it.

( Cut to spare the flist )

I wish people would leave a way to respond to a review if they're going to ask questions, but in case my anonymous reviewer looks here:

me like so far:Doing good. Very clean writing(as usual, you must have good ( Read more... )

I just posted the first chapter of a new Danny Phantom fic, Alibi. It's Dash's arc, how he goes from being the high-school bully to finding his place in the world. No romance (shocking for me, I know!). It sort of a companion fic to Ghosts in the Closet. Shorter than a novel, but not a short story, either (14 chapters ( Read more... )