Whispers

In honor of the fun I'm having and dialectical's awesome screencaps, ask for an X-Men movieverse icon and it's yours.

:grins:

Just found Part I of Razor Sharp on YouTube. It's only the first half or so (it's a short movie), but it's there!

If anyone can make me some decent screencaps from this baby, I will love you forever.

P.S. Still want to find the rest, for sale or for free. Potential option: http://www.nyalines.com/watch-movie-online-/watch-Razor-Sharp-movie-free-online/ Anybody know if this program's safe for viewing/downloading?

Clarity has always been my waterloo. I got three reviews in the last four days that say, "I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'm hooked." (Mixed blessing.) The most common line my editor dumps on my submissions, "Clarify." My favorite thing to do in writing? Write between the lines.

Mixed. Blessings.



I don't think I excel at this. I would love to. I would love to help readers get my ideas as much as I'm told I get my characters.

I think I'm going to pin this to my computer!

From anghara:

"sartorias suggested that she at least might be one of the people who might be interested in reading a list of this ilk, as opposed to "This Is A List of All The Popular Kids" which keeps on circulating in blogland. So, then. How about I start the ball rolling, right here?

What is the best book you've read recently (or the best book you've read NOT so recently) by a writer whose name does not immediately start ringing bells?
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I'm shy against taking on tooooooooo many more major projects (let's not walk down that list again), but still I see these Superman fic awards and I keep thinking we need an award community for X-Men (split out by 'verse).

Ideas for Categories:

• Best Completed Novel
• Best Completed Multi-Chapter Fic (not a novel)
• Best Completed One-Shot
• Best Completed Drabble
• Best Completed Series
• Best WIP Novel
• Best WIP Multi-Chapter Fic (not a novel)
• Best WIP Series

• Best Humor Fic
• Best Romance Fic
• Best Action/Adventure Fic
• Best Friendship Fic

• Best Fight Scene
• Best Love Scene
• Best One-Liner
• Best Original Character

And we could give them in Evoverse, Comicverse (including ancillary comics, like Excalibur), and Movieverse.

Just thinking. And wishing. I'm almost scared to put it out there, for fear I'll do it.

Can I beg a writing meme? Pulled from xenokattz.

Give me
a) a fandom
b) a character/pairing

Then add any (or all) of the following
1) an image
2) a quote (but not in the same fandom)
3) Your battle cry
4) a recipe

First 10 prompts will get a strict drabble; that is, a 100 words fic. No promises after 10 although I'll do my bestest.

So I promised I'd have something to show for my crazy, prolonged absence. And I do!

Behold! Original fiction.
Behold! The project that has commandeered my sister's life, and thus, mine.

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Happy memery from in_the_blue:

"I'm stealing from everyone, because I haven't done this in a long time: leave a comment here, and I'll... well, the meme goes I'll show you a picture of a fictional character you remind me of, but we all know I never do things the same way everyone else does (and besides, I've already done it that way). Instead, I'll tell you what fictional character reminds me of you and tell you why. Then you're supposed to post this to your own LJ and spread the fun, but whatever, doesn't matter to me if you do that or not!"

Bring it on, peeps! Pictures and/or story/why for commentary.

Despite numerous attempts, I keep running into this:

http://www.tribalwriter.com/2011/02/22/should-you-be-blogging-to-help-build-your-writing-career-or-is-it-a-waste-of-time/

In short, I have no bloggerly vision, just bookish ones.

Writer Seeking Beta
I'm looking for a shredder: someone that will shred my work apart on a functional, grammatical/spelling, structural, character, world-building, and canon-building level. I have clarity issues. Big ones. Knowledge of X-Men fandoms and possibly Roswell preferred. Also, occasional brainstorming when I can't make my threads work.

I blame lithiumlaughter and xenokattz. They've converted me and I'm considering a crossover. :headdesk:

Also, I've simply decided I don't want to do nonbeta work much more. Most of my writing has gone unbeta'ed and I have a huge amount of X-Men movieverse backlog. I had a queen beta that knew the 'verse and English language awesomely well, but she's AWOL. I have a queen beta that knows 'verse and characters but doesn't shred for me.

So, either/or/both:

• X-Men: movieverse extraordinaire (shredder/brainstorm/language & canon genius) - please good knowledge of other X 'verses, particularly comic canon.
• X-Men/Roswell geek (same as above, but only asking conversant vs. fluent knowledge of Roswell TV shoe)

LJ Notifications
Some reason, LJ, you can't send notifications to my LJ inbox anymore?!? My new email addy is a pain to log in and out of and it's not telling me when friends update. I'll do my best, y'all, to keep up anyway. :growls unhappily:


FicSpam
So I'm up to about twenty chapters of Whispers, four of Humanity, and two of Moments. Can you tell I'm starting on the drabbles? After I get Whispers and Moments taken care of (seeing as they're FINISHED and 100 chapters each, then I'll move on to the others like Pedestal and Like Day Follows Night, etc.


A Map in the Rain
Extending this story to second chapter. It's been in my head for a while, but I'm just now thinking I'll actually write it. :shakes head at self:


Journal Spamming
I love my LJ friends/fam. Please let me know if you ever do feel spammed with my posts or there's ever something you'd rather not read about. Walking that teetering line between transparency and TMI is...tougher than I thought. We'll leave it at that.


Summers Sister
Would anyone mind a story with an OC Summers sister? She showed up several years back in my brain as a possible lab creation of Sinister's but well aware of her relationship to Scott and frankly, one ruthless gal (but for good reasons). But she didn't spring from canon and I hate a poorly devised OC when perfectly good canon characters are available.


X-Men First Class
Anyone know who's in the first class per Marvel movies? I'm writing a fic where that would be good to know.


Reading Habits

Read a book I love, 'cause of the character. More on that later. :winks: