Posted in Dreams, Fanfic, tagged driving, road kill, road trip on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Things we have almost killed on our roadtrip thus far (* indicates which have been successfully smucked – the rest were just close calls):
Generic birds eating grasshoppers who are sunning on the road*
Grasshoppers – any many grasshoppers*
Butterflies*
Mosquitoes (extra icky)*
Turkeys
Pheasants
Prairie Chickens
Peacock
Bunnies
Possums*
Raccoons aplenty
Cat
Traffic cones
Hitchhiker
Happily, most of the wildlife escaped our careening vehicle. I feel bad about the [...]
Posted in Fanfic, Life, tagged addiction, anemophobia, crazy, crowds, moods, phobias, phone cords, thursday, wind on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been talking about “crazy” a lot over the last few days. First, I happen to know a surprisingly large number of people who are in the Crazy Business: psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and so on. Second, I’m writing a character for my nerd club who is what I keep describing as “crazy.” Talking about her [...]
Posted in Fanfic, Writing, tagged books, fanfiction, fanzine, pern, reading on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve read two e-books, both while I was in Belgium and didn’t have access to a well-stocked library of English-language literature. I found the experience rather irritating, but also rather pleasing. It was irritating because I couldn’t curl up with my book in bed or shove it in my purse to take with me, but [...]
Posted in Fanfic, tagged flame war, flaming, people skills, respect on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last night was an absolutely classic moment in Nerd Club Crisis Management. I find it not only entertaining, but a moral tale, so I’m going to share.
There are many many clubs in Pern Fandom. By and large, it’s a non-competitive environment. Many people belong to several clubs, and different clubs cater to different interests. [...]
Posted in Fanfic, Writing, tagged urban dictionary, words on November 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Haha. Okay, well, not so much famous. But my co-schemer Lindsay just discovered a very interesting entry on a blog called Wordlustitude, an urban dictionary blog that is full of really fantastic words. Allow me to quote for you:
despotette-wannabe
noun. A poser with feminine wiles, not yet capable of making a grown man pee [...]
Posted in Fanfic, Language, Writing, tagged fiction on September 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Before I go too far, let me put up a disclaimer about my credentials. I am not a published fiction writer. I have had several non-fiction stories published in fairly obscure journals, but no one has ever paid me to write fiction. I hope that changes some day, but for now I do it for [...]
Posted in Fanfic, Writing, tagged death, fiction on September 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t care for death.
Who does? you ask.
Authors who want to write good stories, I think, is the answer.
Death is a part of life. It’s hard to get away from. It’s tragedy. It’s drama. It’s often very good storytelling. Conflict is at the heart of storytelling, and death, threat of death, or fear of death [...]
Posted in Fanfic, tagged gender, Writing on August 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
((If you’re looking for information on actual chromosomes, check here.))
One of the disappointing aspects of Pern Fanfiction is the utter lack of men. We have something like 40 active writers in my club, and currently, not a single one is male.
Actually, I’m not being fair. There are men out there in Pern fandom, somewhere. We [...]
Posted in Fanfic, Language, Writing, tagged fiction on August 13, 2007 | 4 Comments »
In writing class today, we played the composite story game. Most people have done this at some point in their lives. Each person in a group starts a story, then every few minutes, you pass it around and then write a few sentences on someone else’s story. Eventually your story comes back to you, having [...]
Posted in Fanfic, Writing, tagged fiction on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Subtitle: The Dangers of Fictionalizing Yourself
MPD. Multiple Personality Disorder (or, as I understand it, the PC term is now Dissociative Identity Disorder). One body has many personalities living inside. It’s a serious condition that has resulted in plenty of entertaining jokes and movies. I’ve known one person with this condition. It’s much more alarming in [...]
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