Time to Get Off the High Horse
So it’s National Novel Writing Month. All over the world, crazy people are hunkered over their computers (or maybe notepads if they’re particularly masochistic), trying to get out 50,000 words during the month of November. I’ve been doing it since 2005; I crashed and burned a couple of times, but I always try to participate, just because it’s a great way to keep yourself motivated when you know thousands of other people are doing the same thing. But I guess some people...
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Latest person to board the fanfiction wank train: Diana Gabaldon. It seems one of these rants manages to percolate through the blogosphere about once a year. I don’t know if there’s a set timetable for these sorts of things or not, but they do crop up on a regular basis. Unfortunately, fanfiction is one of those things people will probably never agree on; trying to find an accord between the opposing camps is a little bit like trying to get the Democrats and Republicans to find...
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