'Heart Of Gold'
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
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.
It already is NAFDA. It's on the slug.
I just looked at it on the main page and didn't see it! God. I need newer glasses.
Yeah, I thought it was NAFDA.
Thanks, Tep, for recommending the Bright book. It's been helpful.
I love it. I'm glad you like it!
Totally gratuitous gloat coming
My website's had over 4000 hits!
End gratuitous gloat. Hee.
Yeah Connie!