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| Saturday, April 11th, 2009 | |
| 12:34 am [charamei] |
Title: Provisionally, 'Daughter of Time'. Genre: Looks fantasy-like to me. Could be sci-fi, though. Rating: Eh, PG-13 for mention of various societal evils. Word Count: 728 I finally reached the point where I just needed a change from the same old Nano-Whofic-Nano-Whofic cycle, picked up a prompt from here and a character prompt from here, and set out to make something new, self-contained and above all short. This happened. It's still a first draft since I have other things to write/edit first, but I kind of like it and would appreciate concrit. That way, when I do edit it, it'll be even shiner. ( Read more... ) |
| Thursday, February 5th, 2009 | |
| 12:25 pm [harrylovesron] |
Discussion: Smut ( Let's talk about smutfic. NSFW, obviously! ) |
| Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 | |
| 4:19 pm [dhole] |
A Knight on the Road, Chapter 2. This is the second chapter, and the last one I'm going to post here; like I said before, if you want to see more, let me know, and I'll mail a copy to you. ( Chapter 2 ) |
| 3:59 pm [dhole] |
A Knight on the Road, Chapter 1 This is something that I've recently finished, and which needs at least another major edit before I start sending it out to agents. Rather than spamming the whole thing, I figure I'll post a couple of chapters -- if anyone wants to see the rest, let me know, and I'll send you a copy. The current draft is a bit over 80,000 words, and I'm planning on starting a major revision in a month or two. I'm not very good at summaries, but here's the current attempt: Emban is a walker – someone who makes her living by traveling between worlds. When she becomes embroiled in the affairs of a wizard named North Gate, Emban finds herself in a much wider universe than she had ever imagined, and in the middle of a conflict that spans tens of thousands of worlds, and involves forces beyond her comprehension. ( Chapter 1 ) |
| Monday, December 22nd, 2008 | |
| 9:18 am [pishbadlarr] |
Discussion: Method You've just gotten the barest glimmer of an idea. Now what? What's your method? Do you stop whatever you're doing and sit and write it down? Do you let it roll around in your head for a while? Do you obsessively outline? Do you jump right in to the first draft? Does your actual process end up differing from the process you planned to use? |
| Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 | |
| 3:36 pm [breecita] |
New Comm When I started trying to get e-published I was sort of shocked by the fact that there didn't seem to be good communities out there with people who know what's going on in the e-publishing world, since you'd figure us internet nerds would be at the front of that. I'm trying to change that a little bit by getting e-published authors to come to livejournal and talk to other authors and aspiring authors about how they broke into publishing online and what they like about it, etc. And maybe dish the dirt on which publishers are looking for what sort of stuff. It's a little genre niched due to my sphere of bully-able contacts, but hopefully some of you might find the idea useful. :) http://community.livejournal.com/e_roti |
| Saturday, June 28th, 2008 | |
| 12:59 pm [pishbadlarr] |
Discussion: Inspiration Where does your inspiration come from? Do you dream your plots? Are they what-ifs? AU's? Plot generators? Prompts? Wish fulfillment? Are you merely a channel for your muse? Do you meet your characters on the astral plane? |
| Thursday, June 26th, 2008 | |
| 7:00 pm [pishbadlarr] |
Yo, wankas! Long time no see! Things have been pretty quiet around here for a while, no? Our bad. We'll be good if you'll be good. Remember there was a prompt thrown out last week you could take advantage of if you felt so inclined! We'd love to see whatever you come up with. Title: Minnesota Author: Pishbadlarr Rating: PG13 for mild language A/N: From pyratejenni's prompt "It's not head wound, it's a rite of passage." I've already had some great crit about it and have decided I'm definitely trying to cram too much information into too small of a space, while not giving enough detail where needed, so I intend to expand it at a later date. For now, however, I'd appreciate any additional crit that can be given! Maybe the whole idea just blows, I don't know. ;) ( Let me say right off the bat that my expectations for Minnesota were pretty damn low. ) |
| Friday, June 20th, 2008 | |
| 7:47 pm [pyratejenni] |
Prompt "It's not a head wound, it's a rite of passage." |
| Saturday, April 5th, 2008 | |
| 12:24 pm [hallidae] |
For anyone who knows the fandom, I've been getting into the Dolls series lately. Being a crime-based manga, it leaves open some room for... the creepier persuasion, we'll say, and I decided to see if I could tread the line between "crush" and "stalker". Any suggestions anyone would have for tweaking would be fabulous. Title: Reminiscing Fandom: Dolls Pairing: Kei/Seiju Rating: PG13 Warnings: Underage (Kei's fifteen here, but referencing events several years previous). Summary: It's been years, and Kei's not so little any more, but a certain member of the Tokkei still occupies his mind the majority of the time. ( Onwards ) |
| Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | |
| 8:48 pm [luckdragonfujur] |
There's nothing more boring than a poet I found a very interesting text about writing and writers in a 1997 magazine called Tema y variaciones de literatura (Themes and Variations in Literature), edited by the Universidad Autónoma de México. I translated the parts I liked the most. ( Writing is hard work. ) So, what do you think about it? In case you're interested in reading the original Spanish, it's here. |
| Friday, February 15th, 2008 | |
| 1:40 am [kyabetsu] |
2007 Nano Follow-Up (2/?) TMNT Fan Fiction Warning I am looking for people outside the TMNT fandom who would be willing to give me feedback/editing/general pointers. More than just writing a cool story, I want to be a better writer. Blue, and now Reijiro, have given me some food for thought. This is the Please, be brutal. I value your opinions. Title: Hanami Re-write. Author: Kyabetsu Pairing/Fandom: No pairings/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Rating: PG-13 Flash-back violence Warnings: I could warn you that it needs work, but I don't think that's what you mean. Author Notes: Set 5 years after the end of TMNT Movie 2 in 1995. (Yeah, the one with Vanilla Ice. He won't be appearing in this fanfic. I swear.) Has influences from Movie 4. ************* SCENE 1 (EDITED ( If he had to die... ) ~~~~~~~ I have a note to "Fix setting. The fight setting =/= scene setting. Define them separately." Do you feel that is a point of confusion as this is currently written? Clarification:: The next scene is set in this same brownstone. I believe I can take time to define the apartment in more detail there, using the POV of some one who is not dying. (You know, aware). However, I worry that by waiting, I weaken this scene. Do you feel that is an issue? Current Mood: Determined Current Music: Fish Tank |
| Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 | |
| 11:35 pm [kyabetsu] |
2007 Nano FollowUp (1/?) TMNT Fan Fiction Warning I've been working on my re-write of HANAMI* in some way, shape, or form for over 4 years now. For the past two NANO's now, I've been working on scenes from it. I change my mind about the structure on an almost weekly basis. I have a plan, a glorious editor, and notebooks FULL of scenes. They aren't ready for my editor yet. These scenes don't all mesh, aren't all well-thought out, and could ALL use some serious shaping. I don't know that I like the past-tense, the POV, the characterization or the way they might go together. I've been staring at them for too long. I would appreciate any feedback, thoughts, or commentary. On anything... from grammar and sentence structure to pacing or plotting or name choices or inconsistencies or pizza toppings. I swore I wouldn't publish this out in the fandom until it was complete, so y'all're an excellent group of writers to bounce this off. I've got it on my lj too, under friends-lock until it's been beaten into proper shape. Please, be brutal. I value your opinions. *--Hanami = an embarrassingly bad fanfic posted on FF.net back in 2002. It had a good plot-core. I refuse to let it sit there and rot. I think I can fix it. Title: Hanami Re-write. Author: Kyabetsu Pairing/Fandom: No pairings/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Rating: PG-13 Flash-back violence Warnings: I could warn you that it needs work, but I don't think that's what you mean. Author Notes: Set 5 years after the end of TMNT Movie 2 in 1995. (Yeah, the one with Vanilla Ice. He won't be appearing in this fanfic. I swear.) Has influences from Movie 4. ************* SCENE 1 (not that it's chronologically first--though it is--but that for tracking purposes, it's the first out of my first notebook.) ( If he had to die... ) Current Mood: Meek Current Music: Jungle Book -- "The Bear Necessities" |
| Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 | |
| 3:42 pm [also_not_a_pipe] |
I'm trying to edit my NaNo novel from 2006, but it isn't quite working. I think that one of the places I get hung up is that the only part I've been able to write so far is the subplot dealing with two of my main characters and their angsty relationship. I've decided just to go ahead and write their story as something separate to see if maybe that shuts the boys up. The problem with that is that I'm not sure I'm writing them as masculine enough even for the sort of poised, quasi-Victorian (it's complicated to explain, but the story is space opera that borrows liberally from 19th century Australia and a completely cracked-out history-stew-in-space RPG I used to help mod) gentlemen they're supposed to be. So anyway. The piece that I'm currently rewriting is a bit long to just slap up on a comm unannounced--twenty four hundred words and counting. Instead I shall ask, does anyone feel like taking a look at this chapter for me when I get finished revising it? |
| 1:36 am [pyratejenni] |
Utena drabble-type thingy Wrote this up awhile back, thought people might like to see it. ( Showers After the Revolution ) |
| Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | |
| 3:25 pm [also_not_a_pipe] |
This is something I was discussing with another writer friend earlier. I'm not exactly sure how to explain it well, but I'm bored enough to try. My characters have lives beyond the stories that I write them in, I know that. Not in the sense that they're walking around there out in the world someplace like in Stranger Than Fiction, or even that I think they're real on some other planet. But I tend to start daydreaming and get little scenelets and plot tangents that pop up in my head which I'm never going to write down (unless they're really cute). There's no story there, it's just the characters doing what they do in their daily lives. A big chunk of these little scenes and digressions are about the characters who really live and breathe to me wasting time in what I can only compare to a theater's green room. It is essentially this little corner of my writer brain where they relax and visit with characters from other stories when I'm not using them. Sometimes I end up writing my own crossovers, because a character from one world will really hit it off with a character from another world and accept an invitation to go visit them there. Even when I do want to start writing a scene in a story, it can be hard to switch the characters I need from there over to the real story because they're having a good time, damn it. They don't want to stop chatting to their strange new friends just so I can make them angst (or if that's too dewy and romantic for you, then because it's a weird gear-change from writing a character talking to someone in the lounge to writing them badly losing a sword fight on the edge of a swamp). I write mostly original fiction that tends toward weird fantasy and space opera that ran wild from pieces of history that I liked. Last year for NaNo I attempted (made the word count, still have no idea what out of that is the actual story) a big piece of milieu fiction in a place I based very, very loosely on equal parts of a cracked-out RPG I used to run and 19th century Australia. The one this year jumps back and forth between one of the most progressive public colleges west of UC Berkeley in 1970 and a steampunky world that started off as based on Edwardian England, and my non-NaNo story is a mash of the Dutch and Venetian Republics with Enlightenment-era England and America, with monsters. I have learned so many things about these strange places just from listening to all of my characters talk to each other. For example, one of my characters from space-Australia is currently shouting across the lounge at his husband-to-be to ask what he thinks of inviting characters from other stories to their after-wedding party. I'm not going to write the party. That plot is being so overhauled that I'm not sure they get to have a wedding in the version of events that makes the best story. But in the versions of it that are just fluff I tell myself when I want to think about something cheerful, oh yes they do. Either way, I know tons more about the marriage customs in space-Australia than I did before the contemporary young doctor from my urban fantasy set in southern Ohio decided that she was very curious about them. I remember a that a year or two ago ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} naamah_darling over on LiveJournal wrote a beautiful post about the headspace where her characters go to unwind, this rugged mountain bar that sounded like something from the Old West. I could never describe my setting quite as well, partly because she is a fantastic writer when she starts talking about writing, and partly because mine isn't that grand. It's just a rather nebulous lounge that always seems to shift to accommodate the needs of whoever shows up. No one's made it their own yet and the furnishings are the sort of nice-but-a-bit-battered ones that you get in common rooms that nobody really claims. But it does make me think a bit that this may not be an uncommon writer thing as opposed to just me being crazy. So I'm curious, does this ring true to any other writers, all this business with characters' hangouts and lives away from the story? Current Mood: bored Current Music: The Pogues - South Australia |
| Sunday, October 21st, 2007 | |
| 1:35 pm [kyabetsu] |
Intro and Humor Hello! I've been reading over the delights posted here for what amounts to 2 weeks now. I tend to write pen-and-paper style (...during lectures...), so I'm afraid I currently have little to offer in the way of typed, personal fiction. I am excited about making another go at NaNoWriMo this year. I hope you will indulge my future postings. I look forward to feedback, and to breaking myself of the bad habits discovered over the course of the 50,000 words. Also, to spread the love, I wanna share with you what I found on the website Scary Crayon. Wes posted a completely tongue-in-cheek, "Oh-shit-my-word-count!" tutorial on NaNo-ing. ...you may end up cranking out a National Bestseller -- but if you somehow profit from spreading filth you're just going to go to Hell when you die and will come to regret ever writing that book when Satan is shoving sleeping porcupines up your asshole and then plaguing them with nightmares that cause them to toss and turn like Caesar salads under wooden spoons wielded by escaped mental patients. In its 8,144-word hilarity here. Joking aside. How did any of you previous NaNoWrimo winners, or near-winners, reach your goal? What's your success recipe? Is it gluten-free? Current Mood: Nosy Current Music: Kleenex Harmonics. (Allllllerrrrgiiiies!) |
| Sunday, October 7th, 2007 | |
| 9:22 pm [also_not_a_pipe] |
I suppose the question has to be asked Who here's doing what for NaNo? I'm working on a story from a weird dream I had a few years ago that's still loud in my head. I'm not sure if it's fantasy or soft science fiction, but it involves lots of interdimensional travel between a little hippie college town a few miles from me and a world that's sort of a weird, weird version of Regency/Victorian England. It is cheesetastic. |
| Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 | |
| 11:08 am [wormykins] |
Fandom: Harry Potter Character: Lily Evans Potter Genre: Fluff Romance/Character Sketch Rating: G Word Count: 798 STATUS: UNBETAED Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, and am making no money from this brief borrowing of the characters. We're following the fake cut, the fake cut, the fake cut... |
| Monday, September 3rd, 2007 | |
| 8:34 pm [harrylovesron] |
Prompt of the Moment #2 Happy Labor Day. Here's a Prompt of the Moment for you. Remember: If you write a response to this prompt that is drabble/ficlet length, you can either post it in the comments to this post, or start a new post for it. If it's too long to put in one comment, please make an entirely new post for it. Community rules do apply, so make sure you include the title, rating, and so on. I will link anything resulting from this prompt in this post. Prompt of the Moment #2 Birthday Previous PotMs: #1, Perfect Afternoon Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: "Piano Man" - Billy Joel |