Whoo boy.

Boy howdy have I been away for a while. Tonight, I rediscovered this website for the first time in what must be... Yeah, four years. Last time I wrote fics here or even put up a blog post was before I started the engineering degree I just finished. I was just our of high school then, and now I'm in my 20s... What a time it has been.

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I just watched the original Alien for the first time. Afterward, I spent an hour or so calming back down enough to stop trembling from adrenaline. Now the worrying part: Left to it's own devices, my mind has begun assembling some rather terrifying parallels between Changelings and xenomorphs. I'm probably gonna be in a weird headspace for a while.

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As an author, I have a couple of preferred creative methods.

The one I like is feedback-based writing. I write something, look at comments and feedback on it, then use those criticisms and suggestions as a framework to make more writing easier. It requires a certain amount of reader interaction, but once I have it I can almost write consistently.

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I have finally gotten my shit together enough to write chapter two of A Plea for Help. I didn't expect to write one, but I guess we all surprise ourselves.

I now have a new conundrum: I need an editor. Or two. I just want someone to go over it and tell me what I did wrong where. I want to get better as a writer, so I have a rule for my editors: Criticize ruthlessly. Don't be gentle, don't sugarcoat anything, and only compliment something if it is genuinely amazing.

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First of all, thank you to all of you who read A Plea for Help. I enjoyed writing it, and I'm very glad I finally wrote something that other people like, too.

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