roxybisquaint: (sarah wizard of oz)
I probably should've pimped this during sign-ups but I forgot. Anyway, there's a Last Author Standing community for TSCC so if anyone missed out, you can eventually get in on Round 2 when they post the sign-ups for that. I think it'll be a while, though.

The voting for Round 1 / Challenge 1 just started (and goes until Sunday), so if you're looking for some fresh short TSCC fic to read, go check it out. The prompt for this one was:

"On the night we first met, John's father, Kyle Reese, told me words I remember to this day. He meant them as a warning, I think of them as words to live by. He told me of an apocalypse yet to come. Like a Pandora's box, he unpacked every horror, every evil, every dark this that haunts our future. He also left me an unborn son to whom he bequeathed what remained in the box after the nightmares fled. Hope." --- Sarah Connor

Voting is open to everyone (you don't have to be a participant to have your say on the best and worst entries). Stories are posted anonymously and votes are kept anonymous as well.

It's been a while since I did any fic writing, so I enjoyed doing it and I'm looking forward to the prompt for challenge #2. That's assuming I don't get voted out this round ;)
roxybisquaint: (rule 34)
My LJ muse [livejournal.com profile] cisaac is at it again — inspiring me to create. Unfortunately it's not action figures this time, it's fic. Bad fic. Really, really bad fic. But don't blame him. All he did was rattle off some things that bug him (and anyone whose IQ is above 100) about poorly written fan fiction. After reading the list, I found myself lost in the creation of the worst comment fic I could whip up (I'll freely admit it was great fun to write something so intentionally awful).

Anyway, it's now on fanfiction.net and that is actually [livejournal.com profile] cisaac's fault. He suggested I post it there just to see what kind of reviews it would get. I did and though the comments haven't been flowing in as rapidly as I might have hoped, they are certainly amusing. [livejournal.com profile] metroid13, who's in on the gag, even added a ridiculously over-the-top glowing review.

So if you care and if you dare, I present to you the worst TSCC fic you'll ever read (dear God I hope)...
John's "Brainy" Girlfreind

WARNING: This fic may contain horrendous misspellings, bad punctuation, run-on sentences, excruciatingly bad writing, an absurd necrophilia "plot" and... a punchline.

What the critics are saying >> )
roxybisquaint: (lisa scream)
I really have nothing to say here except that I, quite obviously, am not fond of the semicolon. In fact, it's my least favorite mark of punctuation, as opposed to, say, the dash, which I use too often—much too often.
roxybisquaint: (crichton creamsicle)
Don't pause to listen to a recording of your own voice.
You know that weird thing where your voice sounds completely different to you recorded than it does through your own ears, even though everyone tells you, "yeah that's what you sound like" (and you wonder how they can stand to be around you when you talk)? Well I just got a digital copy of a video from a 1999 New Year's Eve party, so of course, I watched it. It's about 12 minutes long and I think I'm talking either to the camera or in the background for a good 10 minutes of it. And now I can't get my own voice out of my head. When I tried to start writing again, I couldn't hear character voices anymore, I heard my recorded voice from 1999. It's very annoying having characters sound like recorded me. That simply doesn't work. On the upside, my hair looked really good.
roxybisquaint: (sarah know thyself)
Writing is like scraping old paint. You never really finish. You might think you're finished, but wait a day or so, come back, and you'll find more loose flakes, scrape again. Eventually you hit a point where you have to let it go and say done. And set the scraper down.

No I mean it, set it down. For real, put down the damn scraper.

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