December 2011
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Fanfiction: Innocence Lost (one-shot)(flash...
Title: Innocence Lost
Genre: Angst/Grief
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: DCU (pre-reboot Red Robin/Batman)
Pairing: none
Word Count: 1000
Summary: In Red Robin 25, Tim Drake life and virtue were saved by Cassandra Cain. What if his life had been saved, but nothing else instead? What happens twelve months after the fact?
Warnings: Possible triggers for mention of rape and surrendering a child...
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Secret Santa Gift for anachronisticaddendum: "The...
Title: The Silver Bell
Genre: Gen/Fluff
Rating: G
Fandom: DCU/The Polar Express
Pairing: Light Tim/Kon
Summary: A few days before Christmas, in the attic of Wayne Manor, Tim and Kon come across a strange, oddly familiar silver bell among a forgotten childhood toy chest. On Christmas Eve itself, the bell leads to an unexpected wondrous trip on a very special train…
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via writersrelief)
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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public...”
– Cyril Connolly
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“A writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.”
– Burton Rascoe
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“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has...”
– William Sansom
“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool...”
– Ray Bradbury (via writersrelief)
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Habits of a Writer
writersrelief:
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Personal Writing Update
Rabid plot bunnies are such a hassle to deal with sometimes…
I need to work on my story Blade of Misfortune and finish it’s outline. It’s one of those stories where I feel like I need to outline it from start to finish before I start fleshing out the actual chapters.
However, my imagination has also been taken over by two new story concepts.
The first is an idea for an...
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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin (via writersrelief)
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Cover Your Creativity: Protect Your Works with a...
Intellectual theft of written and artistic works SUCKS.
However, you shouldn’t let fear of that stop you from sharing your art or written words with the world at large. That’s where a Creative Commons license comes in.
Using a Creative Commons license allows you to specify EXACTLY what rights you allow your creative works to be displayed with when you share them for free online, no...
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io9 Article: The Rules of Magic, According to the... →
I am developing an addiction to the webzine io9.com
They have some of the greatest writing/literature related articles I’ve found online.
This is the latest I’m sharing with you guys here. The link above takes you to a massive (and I do mean MASSIVE) chart that lists a wide variety of fantasy novel series, the types of magic the stories employ, and the rules regarding the mystic...
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Wired Article: How Led Zeppelin + Franz Schubert... →
From Wired.com, I found a fascinating article explaining how the music of Led Zeppelin and Franz Schubert can be used as models for writing, particularly in long-form writing.
This really is an interesting, informative read.
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Did you know CYOA has its own Tumblr?!
chooseyourownadventure:
One Book, Many Readings - Choose Your Own Adventure
writingsbycrscott:
Do you remember remember reading any of the Choose Your Own Adventure books when you were a kid? If not, or if you never have, you missed out.
The Choose Your Own Adventure books were some of my favorite things to read when I was growing up. Essentially they were a single book, but the story had...
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One Book, Many Readings - Choose Your Own... →
Do you remember remember reading any of the Choose Your Own Adventure books when you were a kid? If not, or if you never have, you missed out.
The Choose Your Own Adventure books were some of my favorite things to read when I was growing up. Essentially they were a single book, but the story had a multitude of different endings depending on the choice you, the reader, made.
I found the link...
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How To Always Have The Perfect Word →
An article I recently found at GhostwriterDad.com.
Have you ever had a hard time finding the perfect word for something you’re writing?
Well, if you can’t find one, why not make one up?
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I...”
– Douglas Adams
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EXCERPT: "Rules for Virgins" by Amy Tan →
This month Amy Tan released her first story in about six years, and wow… if this excerpt is any indication, it’s a doozy.
Set in 1912, Rules for Virgins is a story about Shanghai courtesan teaching a young protege the secrets of seduction.
All I can say is… “wow”. I’ve always been a fan of Amy Tan’s works, but this one, this short blurb, has hooked me...
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Fanfiction: Ace in the Hole (one-shot)(flash...
Title: Ace in the Hole
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Batman
Pairing: none
Summary: Jason Todd, the Red Hood, stares down a target in the sights of his rifle at the request of an unexpected source. Nightwing shows up and attempts to stop him…
He wasn’t doing this for revenge. He wasn’t doing this for himself. The Red Hood looked down the sight of his sniper rifle. ...
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Working on a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style...
In addition to re-writing the first bit of my next Batman fanfic Blade of Misfortune, I decided to pick back up on an original story project that I started during last year’s NaNoWriMo, but set aside earlier this year.
Crazy old me decided last year to write a choose-your-own-adventure styled story titled Gods vs Zombies.
Story premise: Ancient Greek gods from the mythological age...
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If You Write Fanfic...
gailsimone:
Please note that this thread is intended to be completely non-judgmental!
I never really wrote fanfic, unless you count the column I did for Comicbookresources.com for a number of years. I find the concept of it very interesting, socially speaking. It seems to mean more to many than simply exercising some creative itch, as it were.
I’m not allowed to read it, for legal reasons, so...
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WatchUsing the words of Stephen Fry, a man named Matthew Rogers has created a great video of animated typography to go along with the audio from one of Fry’s essays.
The essay itself is about “language” and is really worth listening to if you have the time.
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Reblogged: 102 Resources for Fiction Writers
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102 Resources for Fiction Writers
vulpesinculta:
Are you still stuck for ideas for National Novel Writing Month? Or are you working on a novel at a more leisurely pace? Here are 102 resources on Character, Point of View, Dialogue, Plot, Conflict, Structure, Outlining, Setting, and World Building, plus some links to generate Ideas and Inspiration.
CHARACTER, POINT OF VIEW,...
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Should I?
[[ Chat log of a conversation between me and a friend about the idea of creating a FF7/DC mashup RPG... ]]
HourglassThorne: i was thinking… been missing rping… toying with the idea of reviving a version of the game, but instead of mashing up all FF characters into FF7, was going to mash up DC universe characters into FF7 world. (was kinda inspired imagining the entire Bat Clan as TURKS
galaxypaiv: oh wow
HourglassThorne: yeah… it was just a random idea. saw something that reminded me of FF7.. i think it was stumbling on some Reno and Rude plushies on DeviantArt. It got me thinking along those lines… any alien heroes/villians could be aligned either with Jenova or Ancients… giving certain characters access to materia as well as weapons from FF7 world… chocobos of course… summons…
galaxypaiv: hmm
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HourglassThorne: hmmm… wonder if it would be possible to structure a tumblr blog in such a way that people could play an rpg on it.
galaxypaiv: hmm, good question!
HourglassThorne: reflexively i want to say it COULD be possible… but would probably require a LOT of work
galaxypaiv: and thus it takes root in your head?
HourglassThorne: yep. *facepalm* i think i'm a glutton for punishment.
galaxypaiv: maybe XD
HourglassThorne: XD
galaxypaiv: but at least it's fun punishment you're a glutton for?
HourglassThorne: yeah. i guess enough time's passed for me to forget what a headache it is to mod a game
galaxypaiv: I literally laughed
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HourglassThorne: hmmm… is it bad that I imagine Bruce Wayne, or at least Damian, having a black chocobo who has a tendency to bite?
galaxypaiv: No XD Who would breed a gold one though?
HourglassThorne: not sure. it could be that those haven't been bred yet…. they are supposed to be pretty rare. Dick Grayson would HAVE to have a blue one… that likes to groom its owner affectionately. Jason Todd wouldn't have a chocobo. He's got a motorcycle fetish (and is allergic to chocobo feathers)
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galaxypaiv: what would Bruce's connection to Shinra be though, as a billionaire
HourglassThorne: hmmmm.. that'd be a tough one… Head of weapons manufacturing company that supplies Shinra?
galaxypaiv: I can't see Bruce as a TURK
HourglassThorne: Yeah…. I can see his boys as TURKS, but not him…. Could see him as funding AVALANCHE……. Maybe even keeping that aspect of things secret from his "sons" since they are so close to the company... it would be convoluted.... and i couldn't play all those characters… I might play Bruce... the boys… they'd have to played by others
galaxypaiv: and oh the drama when they find out he funds AVALANCHE
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[[ Several years back, I used to create, play, and mod RPG games on LiveJournal and GreatestJournal. These were mostly Final Fantasy based. The two I created and ran myself ended up running for about two years each. It was a fun time, but eventually I got burned out and needed to take time away from it all. ]]
[[ Now, though, I've got the germ of an idea in my head for starting up an rpg of some sort again, either through journals or blogs... not sure what would be more feasible... If there is any interest in this sort of game from anyone else, please drop me a line in my ASK box. If there's enough interest, I might do more to make this vision i have a reality. ]]
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Article Link: How to Write a Screenplay →
Are you interested in eventually write for tv, films, or even comic books? Then maybe it’s time to start looking into how to transform your stories from prose to scripts. Here is a link to a good article called “How to Write a Screenplay: A Guide to Screenwriting”.
This article covers the basics in brief about how to format a screenplay.
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Mind Mapping Your Stories
When I’m plotting a story, especially one that is most likely going to take up a number of chapters to complete, one of my favorite tools to use is a good mind mapping software program.
Simply put, a mind map is a diagram that is used to link and arrange words, ideas, and concepts around a central key word or a central idea. Many people’s first (and possibly only) experience with...