Two things:
1. I’m behind on SoHW19. The first part of it is up here, though, and I’m hoping to have the next part done here by next weekend.
2. The SoHWiki is here. So far it contains character bios, a FAQ, various things about the SoHW universe, and an Index of Arcane Literary […]
I’ve been bitching about this piecemeal for a while, so I thought it would be nice to have it all here and organized.
I have a love-hate relationship with mass-market mysteries. When they’re good, they’re great. (Lord Meren is my fictional husband, and he agrees.) The problem with them, though, is that […]
The new chapter of The Shadow of His Wings is in beta. I can’t post earlier than this weekend, but I’ll have it up as soon as I can thereafter.
Also, there’s a new Fullmetal Alchemist section at The Guest Room. The fics there are part of a nine-fic series, the last one of which has […]
So I’ve been doing a lot of writing in Fullmetal Alchemist lately, which you probably do not know unless you hang out on my livejournal because I haven’t yet managed to make a satisfactory header graphic for the potential FMA page on the House of Hobbits. And it’s interesting, you know, because I usually […]
I lose at drafts.
See, in theory I understand their value. It’s just that I want stuff to be perfect, or at least in final form, the first time around. That’s why it takes me so damn long to write - I edit, really really heavily, as I go instead of just getting stuff […]
No, I have not updated The Shadow of His Wings in a pig’s years. Yes, I am still writing it, and intend to continue writing it all the way to the end. However.
So not even I can carry my laptop everywhere, alas, and Cuthbert the PDA means well and tries hard but is sort of like the Commodore 64 of PDAs. So I wind up not writing sometimes when I’d really like to (on planes, for instance). This is annoying, because I do like to write, and plane rides are really damn boring; might as well see if I can figure out exactly how I want to start up the body of that novel I’ve been poking at.
As I was grumbling about this inherent conflict of writing urge versus back muscles one day, a daring and cutting-edge thought occurred to me: I could, like, write. On paper. Notebooks (made of paper) aren’t heavy. They’d fit in my purse. I could write stuff and carry it around with me. I felt sort of like Keats’ Spaniards with the Pacific new-swum into their ken, if Keats’ Spaniards were of two minds about the whole thing and felt that the ocean was a nifty thing in theory but likely to do things like get them wet and make them smell like seaweed in practice so maybe it would be best to just stay up there on a peak practicing their wild surmise.
So half the trick of writing horror, it seems to me, is figuring out what’s scary in itself, in its own nature, and what’s only scary by association.
So, it’s November. If you go anywhere near where creative people congregate, you know what that means: National Novel Writing Month, which I refuse to call NaNoWriMo because the sheer mortification of having to type something that stupid repeatedly would force me to take to my bed for a week and I just don’t […]
The bulk of SoHW16 is out for beta. I just have to finish the Percy-Lucius part and make whatever changes need to be made and then it’ll be posted. I’m not sure what I think about this chapter; it has a lot of sort of necessary character development but I’m not sure how […]