wintryone

Things have been so busy and hectic lately I haven't had time to pull my thoughts together to write here. But then I thought to myself, "Self, you don't have a minimum word count, just go for it!" Word counts are an obsession for writers, and I'm no exception. This will be, however, short and sweet. I want to talk about endings. This happens to me at some level every year around this time as the year draws to a close. It happens to a lot of us, I'm sure. This year, however, I'm about to wrap up two major projects on ffnet, and I'm already feeling the melancholy. These projects have meant so much to me, personally. They've also allowed me to

I've always loved stories and I've always loved writing. Yet it's only been in the last few years that I've really combined the two. I had several failed attempts, as I think most writers do, at writing novels before I finally succeeded. After the insane amount of work of writing and editing my novel, I was pretty burnt out. DA2 hadn't been out for very long, and even though I'd never played Origins, they had a Mac version, and it sounded pretty awesome. Also, I loved the trailer. As soon as I loaded the game and began to build my first character, I was hooked. I have no idea how many times and in how many ways I've played through - but I wi

This is on my mind, because I'm up against it right now. There's this wall in my psyche that I bang up against sometimes. I can be going along, happily writing, the pen in my hand barely keeping up with the words in my head and then... BAM! The flow stops, the curtain goes down and I sit dazed and confused, wondering what just happened. This is not my favorite experience. I used to believe that writer's block was a real thing. That if it happened to you, well, you were stuck with it until it passed. Writing fanfic has taught me differently. In fact, writing fanfic has taught me so much about writing. But I digress. Now when I hit the wal