Posted in Fic discussion, meta on Sep 9th, 2008
I think it was Anne Rice who popularized (if she didn’t outright invent) the concept of vampires as cold white marble statues, but the concept has influenced many subsequent vampire stories, and even spread its stony tendrils, via fanfic, into vampire mythoi which don’t use it. Jossverse vampires are in many ways a subversion […]
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Posted in Personal on Sep 9th, 2008
I worked on “Little Sister” over the weekend, and got a reasonable amount done on the next chapter, considering that Kathy came down sick and I mooched around all Sunday feeling groggy and headachy. I’m in a “I’m going to finish all my fic and disappear from the face of the internet” sort of […]
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Posted in Fic discussion, Writing on Sep 8th, 2008
There have been many posts lately about ideas, and how you get them. This post is about the next step: once you have an idea, what do you do with it?
Some time back, I got some feedback on “The Lesser of Two Evils” (the story where Spike kills Warren) which brought up, among […]
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