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Author Craft / Re: Wordcount!
« on: February 26, 2007, 06:09:24 PM »
Would you like a pony? I can get you a pony. It'll have to be either evil or stupid, but I can get you a pony. Or maybe a bunny? I can get you a bunny too...
In other words, thank you very much for the recommendation. Excuse me while I hie my newly-moneyed butt over to the bookstore.
Randomly, I've also found The 3 AM Epiphany and No Plot? No Problem! helpful with previous bouts of blockage. Unfortunately I don't own a copy of either one so I'm kind of out of luck this time around.

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Author Craft / Re: Would you stop?
« on: February 26, 2007, 08:29:41 AM »
I'd keep writing, I think. I have a small group of friends I share my stories with, and they love to read them, and that's all that matters to me, honestly. I've been published a few times but I haven't sent anything out since this fall, because it honestly doesn't matter to me. If someone somewhere reads it, even if I have to tie them up and shove the computer in their face to do so, I'm still happy.
Besides, it gets rather noisy in my head when I haven't written for a while. I tell you, subletting the other 95% of your brain? Bad idea.

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Author Craft / Re: Wordcount!
« on: February 26, 2007, 08:26:47 AM »
Currently, Confidence is about 52,000, give or take a couple hundred words. However, it's been at about 52,000 since December 5th. Make the writer's block stop...

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DF TV Series / Re: TV Series Timeline
« on: February 26, 2007, 07:48:47 AM »
Quote from: jtaylor on February 22, 2007, 04:30:10 AM
Quote from: Priscellie on February 22, 2007, 04:23:29 AM
Speaking of showtunes, who else is utterly convinced that duty-obsessed book!Morgan is a closet Gilbert and Sullivan fan?
He is the very model of a modern magic general.
He has information vegetable, animal, and ethereal
He knows the Queens of Faerie, and He quotes the fights fantastical
He is the very model of a modern magic general.


Somewhat late, but this post makes me wish to bear your internet children. And what address should we deliver your shiny new internets to?

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Author Craft / Re: Fanfiction - Good or Evil?
« on: August 07, 2006, 11:49:01 PM »
Quote from: becroberts on July 21, 2006, 10:33:14 PM
I can't speak for other fanfic authors but personally, I've found that writing fanfiction has been a real help in producing original pieces. The original stuff I started writing at sixteen was absolutely terrible, but when I hit the Internet and discovered online fandoms (mostly anime), writing fanfic helped tremendously. I've found what works for me in terms of plotting strategies, obtained plenty of practice at pacing dialogue etc. Now that I'm working on a couple of novels of my own, I write very little fanfic, but I'm happy to have had the experience.

Me too. Fanfiction let me learn about the pure craft of writing, like pacing, dialogue and the actual mechanics, without having to deal with worldbuilding and characterization and all that. Probably why all my critiques say my writing's great but the plot sucks. ^.^ But seriously, I think it's a great learning tool for a young writer. I wouldn't put it out in the big wide world, though, because you're not playing in your own house, and it's impolite to invite other people to mess around in someone else's.

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Author Craft / Re: Any WriMo's out there?
« on: August 07, 2006, 11:42:44 PM »
Three-year NaNo veteran, just won for the first time last year. Not to say I've actually finished the story itself. But hey.
I am definitely participating this year. Even though it's my first year of college. Uh, yeah, this is gonna get interesting.

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