Because I'm a sucker for metatextual fanfiction theory/history.

The funny thing is, I vaguely remember those Bad Ol' Days(tm) of early Fanfiction.net-- though ironically I write more fanfic NOW than I did back then. Hm.

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So the other night (after a few beers), I was mulling over the absolute mess of an 'original fiction' draft I've been working on, and I realized that I ... might need to rewrite a particular character, if not cut them out entirely, as the story just kept grinding to a halt whenever I tried to write them. Dang.

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Hello, FiMfic.

So where has summer gone, huh? I haven't been writing as much as I'd like, though apparently Bicyclette is doing a Sunset/Sci-Twi shipping contest, which I ... might actually look into? As that sort of thing is entirely within my wheelhouse. Maybe not as much as, say, a Rarijack contest or a Flash Sentry contest, but hey.

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For anyone interested, I felt I should point out the Sci-fi Classics Humble Bundle currently running (for what looks like two weeks).

As usual for the humble bundles, you get some of the books no matter how much ytou pay, same if you pay more then average, and in this case, some if you pay 15$ or more. Here's a list of what's in there:

Base:
Damnation Alley - Roger Zelazny

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Golden Ice Lilly, glowing bright in the night sky
Darkened rainbows abound, hidden in the corner of our collective minds
We find a new perspective to our situations, turning around constantly
Magnesium salfate inside the empty crates , fancy are we
Tungston steel and a faceless man in the doorway inside the hallway of our minds

No more wire hangers, suspended in resistence
Bring over your next army, cause' this one is missin'

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