If the last three episodes of "How I Met Your Mother" are any indication of episodic writing after a writer's strike...

Can we please organize writers strikes more often.

This and last week's "House" have been some amazingly well written shows.

Tags: tv, writing
Current Location: FreePeople House: COUCHES settled but potentially in flux!
Current Mood: giddy

A while ago I started writing some fiction. I did a revision and then stopped for a while. Now granted... there was a bout of ye-olde-black death that I had in February. And then March was a bit busy.

The other reason I delayed making more fixes is that I was hoping to install version control on my server. This way I can look at each revision and see what changes I've made along the way.

Today I posted version 3 of my chapter 0. I've made some more modifications that I'm fairly happy with.

If you're on my writing filter, you should already see it. If you're not and you'd like to be.. Please comment and I'll add you to the filter.

Tags: story, writing
Current Location: FreePeople House: COUCHES REARRANGED! MUST RECLASSIFY! ZOMG!
Current Mood: curious

This filk is called "Go Away Snot Boy" - It is a filk of S. J. Tucker's amazing "Go Away God Boy"

(Now Public)

Some notes on this filk:

This filk is tied to the version of "Go Away God Boy" as performed on Sirens.
It scans great to that version. It doesn't do as well to the published lyrics on S.J.'s site.

Two things about the chorus.
1st. There is a note (cough). The performer should actually cough on this beat. (Yeah it's fast.)
2nd. The third line of the chorus changes each of the three times it's sung. Insert the changes as noted.

Liberties taken: Just make 'shambling starspawned' work as best you can. It'll fit if you try
Dies should be pronounced in this song as one syllable. Yes I know it is two.. Just deal.

Finally. There is a place where you can entirely freeform. It's marked with ** with notes at the bottom.
( And then there was the filk itself )

Tags: filk, sick, writing
Current Location: Bus ride home
Current Mood: sick
Current Music: Um.... yeah.

When I was a kid (and I mean 'kid') I was writing a story called "The Bridge" At the time it was (to me) a neat concept. While the media hadn't been created yet, it was one part "Tomorrow People" one part "Doctor Who" one part "Quantum Leap". Interestingly at the time I'd written it only Doctor Who existed.

As jnanacandra can tell you; I've never considered writing my forte. Most of my posts over 1000 words often have to go through her to be converted from Andrei into English.

In college, I went into Directing because.
-I didn't have the talent to do sets, costumes, or makeup beyond a passable level.
-I didn't have the looks or business-machine callous destructiveness to be an actor.

But most assuredly... I never really thought I had it in me to really be a writer.
( Why, wherefore, and where it's leading )

Tags: creativity, filter, story, writing
Current Location: Office
Current Mood: accomplished

..."thier neo-classist allure of the obliquely undecided."

Analysis of this over-worded phrase is probably not really warranted. But ooh it sounds like someone really tried hard.

Tags: turn of phrase, writing
Current Mood: amused