I don't think it came from fear. It came from anger and hurt and revenge.

Wait - - is bitchy fic NAFDA and regular-fic not?

Uh, dunno. I'll go whitefont, anyway.

But since Bitches is NAFDA, I'd assume that Bitchy fic is too.

Maybe this goes in Literary or the main writing thread, but I wanted to share my favorite writing book. Ray Bradbury's "Zen in the Art of Writing." I'm not sure he chose the title, 'cause he never struck me as that Zen, but I adore the book. It's not so much techniques and plot structure, but more about about the joy and passion of writing and creating stories. He talks about finding his own ideas and having the courage to go his own way. I love this book.

I'll have to see if I can dig that up.

Writing books I *adore*:

Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg
How to Write a Dirty Story, by Susie Bright (it IS about writing porn, but it's also very much about writing in general)
So You Want to Be a Writer, by Brenda Ueland

The entire Writer's Digest "Howdunit" series is oodles of fun. It's geared toward mystery writers, and is chock full of things you never knew you wanted to know. I've got the Scene of the Crime book on evidence gathering, and the writer used to do that kind of work in Georgia. Her stories about bloody murder scenes are great. She had to drive some evidence to a lab in Atlanta, and the evidence was two severed hands in a bucket of preservative. The bucket was on the floor of the front seat of her car, and she was in a hurry to get rid of them. Then she realized she'd just blown through the most notorious speed trap town in the county at 60 in a 45 mph zone. Fortunately, she assumed, the cops must have noticed the police-issue whip antennas and decided the car was on business. She was not looking forward to explaining the hands in the bucket.

True life is often so much more entertaining than fiction.

hey, Teppy and I like the same writing books! Thanks, Tep, for recommending the Bright book. It's been helpful.

Bitchy Fic should be NAFDA. I'll mention it in BureacIcan'tspellitanyway.