So I'm really familiar with AO3, of course, and Fanfiction.net, from before that, but I hadn't taken a look at Wattpad before (which seems to be the market of choice for tweens and soccer moms? Because as far as I can tell it's all het 1D fic and romance novels). So I went and got an account just to see how it was set up ( Read more... )

Well, I did it. Completely re-wrote my first completed fic from top to bottom. It clocks in at around 88,000 words, which I'm pretty sure is much longer than the original. I cut a bunch of scenes and combined some others, but I also added some which I felt were missing.

First three chapters are up on AO3 so far and shockingly there are actually ( Read more... )

So I'm almost 16K words in on my re-write of old fic, and I'm still not through chapter 2. Apparently adult me feels like teenage me left a lot of stuff out of chapter 2 ( Read more... )

I have Tuesdays and Thursdays off, so I spent this morning actually going ahead with operation "Write all morning in the Starbucks". Went over there at about 10 am, and took advantage of the free refills for 'Green Card' members and had four cups of tea for the price of one until 2 pm. Wrote an article for a club newsletter (which took most of the ( Read more... )

I am freezing cold in my office and currently wearing TWO hoodies over my work clothes in an attempt to stay warm. After hours of my extremities feeling frozen despite it being sunny outside I walked down to the Starbucks to get a tea latte to warm up. They took my name and then proceeded to sing Jefferson Starship's 'Sarah' at me while making my ( Read more... )

Woke up a little earlier than usual today (say 6:30, instead of 7:30) and checked my e-mail and messed about on the computer for a while but still felt tired and so let myself take a nap and promptly slept until 1 pm! Not sure what that was about. I don't feel like I'm coming down with anything-- other than the disconnect of feeling like it's noon ( Read more... )

Collected two more comics today... one of them turned out to be a manga. Now I've read X-Men manga before, but they were usually fairly similar to the original comics plot wise. Superheroes. Fighting evil. Etc. Etc. This was an X-Men dating Manga where Kitty Pryde comes to Xavier's and is the only girl currently at the school and everybody is ( Read more... )

Remembered that while watching Ant-Man on Saturday we got shushed by a lady further down the aisle from us. Now I totally understand shushing... hell, I'm prone to it. But not during the trailers. And especially not in the middle of a Mazda commercial. We turned to ask her if she worked for Mazda and she seemed particularly incensed. Then she ( Read more... )

Good news, the Vancouver Public Library system has HUNDREDS of Marvel TPBs ( Read more... )

First of all, I need a icon overhaul, because I'm in X-Men Hell and I only have 2 appropriate icons. My moods could probably use an update too ( Read more... )