Writing

A 317-post collection

What does your handwriting say about your personality?

What does your handwriting say about your personality?

Lol.

Lots of this stuff has alternate explanations. My handwriting is usually a byproduct of cheap notebooks and shitty pens, with a side of either restrained budget or equally restrained time.

Thus, my handwriting was usually (1) bunched up as tight as it would go (2) incredibly messy and © incredibly tiny. The dots of my i’s or punctuation was slapdash at best - I knew what I was writing and I didn’t have a lot of time for iotas. To this day, my handwritten “the” can easily be confused with “He”. My n’s tend to vanish completely if I’m not watching them. My g’s hybridise with e’s and my d’s look like backwards 6’s.

And I only dot my i’s with circles when the quality of my pen is pretty poor or the paper is saturated with my skin oils, thus rendering the pen shitty.

No wonder I write via keyboard, these days.

Aaaawwwwww YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!

As of this moment, four hundred lovely peeps have downloaded a copy of Hevun’s Rebel [still available for free at Smashwords!] and I couldn’t be happier.

Thankyou. Thankyou all :)

I certainly hope you’re enjoying it.

Tell your friends if you are :D Tell them if you think it’d be right up their alley. Tell them if you reckon it might be a welcome change of pace for them.

Share and enjoy, eh?

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Challenge #00342: Wild Goose Chase

The Three Pig Trick: Releasing into an area three havoc-causing animals, traditionally pigs, labelled 1, 2 and 4, (may be scaled up for larger numbers of animals) and watching the chaos ensue in catching the labeled animals and searching for the nonexistent missing numbered ones.

The premise was simple. There was a large flock of numbered geese in a fenced enclosure. Their opponents had to catch every last one alive before they went after Shayde and her reluctant companion, Rael.

It shocked

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URGH!

So I just found out that Apple doesn’t like direct links to books sold through Smashwords. If I don’t fix it, they won’t stock my book.

I’ve already fixed it, by the way. And amended a typo that eluded me for like five edits.

I had to remove the links to the individual stories and add a link to my profile, which is apparently A-OK in Apple’s book. Not a big whoop,

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Challenge #00335: To Be a F.A.I.R.Y

“When you wish upon a star, it’s actually a satellite. Your wish has been recorded and an agent assigned to your case.”

She’d just passed the written test. She knew the rules. When it came to wish granting, they gave the toughest one of the day to the rookies. To see what they could do.

It was all part and parcel of being a F.A.I.R.Y. Facilitating All Invocations, Responding Yesterday.

It was

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squigglydigg: I'M NOT GONNA LIE THIS RIGHT HERE WOULD BE AN AMAZING STORY IDEA LIKE HOLY HELL IMAGINE A SECRET SERVICE OF WISH AGENTS, EACH...

squigglydigg:

I’M NOT GONNA LIE THIS RIGHT HERE WOULD BE AN AMAZING STORY IDEA

LIKE HOLY HELL IMAGINE A SECRET SERVICE OF WISH AGENTS, EACH ONE SPECIALLY DESIGNATED TO CARRY OUT A CERTAIN PERSON’S WISH

I

I WANT THIS TO BECOME A THING PRONTO

Squigglydigg, your wish has been recorded and will be a thing in six days.

Watch my blog.

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Are continuations ok as prompts? Because “Bayville by Gaslight” is pretty awesome, as was the Fluttershy-meets-Nightcrawler...

Are continuations ok as prompts? Because “Bayville by Gaslight” is pretty awesome, as was the Fluttershy-meets-Nightcrawler one…

I’d rather do self-contained instant ficcage for the challenges, but I should really set some time aside to finish my old fanficcery.

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Challenge #00320: Homo S. Cuisine

Considering how many toxic things humans ate, it was a little surprising that their cooking was not only edible, but delicious.

“YE-HE-HEEESSSSS! It’s here!”

The nervous Passeri crew gathered at a safe distance to watch the Ship Human - somewhere between lucky mascot and terrifying on-board entertainment - cackle and sing to herself.

They had been told that female humans were far more trainable than the males. That they were, on the whole, quieter and less dangerous than

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Short stories, going cheap!

Short stories, going cheap!

To celebrate the launch of the Hevun’s Child trilogy [Book 1 - Hevun’s Rebel - now in all good eBook stores everywhere] I have reduced the price of my short tales to a mere ninety-nine cents US.

Mainly because they won’t be my chief source of literary income for very much longer.

I have marked late January/early February as the time window for the launch of the second book in the

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I'm doing the last edit...

…of Hevun’s Rebel, today.
(Help me)

Thanks to all the Beta Readers who got back to me :)
(I’m so scared)

By tonight, everything should be lined up for publication.
(OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG…)

And this is just part one of the biggest gamble of my life.
(asdfghjkl I can’t even)

The worst part to date is that hardly anyone has signal-boosted my attempts at advertising :(
(WTF is going wrong?)

At this moment, giddy excitement and self-depreciating depression

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If you would be so kind as to reblog this if you feel insecure about your writing skills.

robinofleylines:

When I’m not in a funk about what a horrible writer I am, I actually think this is a good thing.  The instant a person starts thinking they have nothing to improve, that they’ve finished growing, they stop looking for ways to improve.  They stop getting better.  In fact, this is usually the time their work starts to go downhill.

…Of course, when I’m actually in the “Oh God I’m so horrible at this why does anyone

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FOUR DAYS TO GO Sahra was starting to get pins and needles in her hands and feet when a supervisor turned up. She knew better than to look...

FOUR DAYS TO GO

Sahra was starting to get pins and needles in her hands and feet when a supervisor turned up. She knew better than to look at them. Looking was a sign of aggression.

Well. Two dozen little rats all lined up in neat rows,” said the supervisor. Their boots stopped roughly in the middle of the area where they were all parked. “Who lead you all to this place?

Sahra felt more than saw the

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