two topics for today

... their WIP and she edits them as she would a manuscript. a few of these are very instructive (Bliss, the second Anonymous, Lilly), a few are kind of vague, and a few i just disagree with stylistically, but they're all good examples of the kind of work editors do and what you should watch out for in your writing that will most likely be edited out. one of them links to this page about correcting ...

Weekly Multifandom Rec Post #6

...squint, PG-13, 2831 words A series of vignettes, beginning with Richard’s arrival on the island. Every sentence of this fic is set as a separate paragraph and I’m not sure what I think of that stylistically, but I did like this fic a lot. It’s simply written, but it has an impact. And Now for Something Completely Different Two new fics from two of my old fandoms, featuring two of my favorite ...

just him {and birds} (Draco 100 PG)

.... Rating: PG for character death, albeit ambiguous. Warning(s): Ambiguous mention of canon character death. Challenge(s): #81 - Fly Word count: 100 Author's note: This one is more conceptual, and stylistically experimental than my other drabbles, so I apologise if it is not your style. I do quite like it though. I think Dumbledore's death took the joy out of flying for Draco, and I ...

heed the icon

...I thought I had them turned on, but it turns out I didn't. They're on now. Maybe? I think they are. 3) I'm pretty close to being done with this latest fic, but I am not feeling great about it, because it is --kind of weird stylistically, --over 10,000 words, again , --and not really what the request was asking for. I want to write short things again, when did I stop being able to do that?

Aspects of Work

... are on my mind I feel like writing something.  Thus I give you ASPECTS OF WORK.  For those of you who frequent the internet you may be fans of  bookofratings.com (SISSY) which this will certainly rip-off stylistically but content wise it is from my brain.  And far less funny. Aspects of (my) Work: Sitting I sit all day.  Sometimes I get up to go to the photocopier, or to smoke, get coffee, ...

... without the building up of layers of color, like master paintings.  And when figures are rendered simplistically, they're often built on an elaborate, realistic frame and then cleaned up and reduced stylistically. They wouldn't look natural or believable otherwise. Eventually, after years (hours and hours and hours) of drawing such things, an artist can begin to skip some of these unseen steps ...

Entertainment Weekly's 25 Best Active Directors

...conservative Americana values, Eastwood makes films with big, obvious statements and broad strokes, but stylistically keeps the tone muted, garnering the illusion of respectable craft.  May belong in a ... has a stirring control of the medium, making his biggest impressions with his most stylistically reserved movie, "The Wrestler."  "The Fountain" remains a tremendous achievement. 16.  Zack Snyder ...

BSG [Warning Spoilers as always]

...seven's) genetic material. Hmm.. but Ellen did say something about the boxing being 'final'? Hmm. . -- In many respects this was not as excellent an episode as he previous four. For example, stylistically, this was actually rather bad. I can take face pace..but it really seemed like the writers all knew they were running out of time and had Sam and Ellen spew/reveal everything about past cylon...

SCREAMING SPOTLIGHT ON: JEREMY C. SHIPP

... others. The Bizarro authors of the world are especially awesome. 4.     Did movies influence you as a writer? If so, which ones? In my early years, the books I read influenced me stylistically, but for the most part, my work was influenced by films. I can’t tell you how many times I watched THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN or the original STAR WARS trilogy. Those ...

Songs I Really Dug on This Year

This is probably the most stylistically similar list I've ever put together for a year-end countdown. Of course, I can't compare it or prove that, since typically I do this WAY more scientifically by drunkenly screaming out, "I LOVE THIS SONG!" at people on New Year's Eve. This year, unfortunately, I have to work - WTF, seriously? Does anyone call catalog retailers on New Year's Day at 4am? - so I...