How do you make high school sports movies entertaining? Some athletic jock starts at a new school after a troubled past, beginning with no friends. But it turns out he's great at football or lacrosse or something, so he makes the team, and through that overcomes adversity and his own past to prove his worth to himself and others, going for the big championship and probably becoming the hero of the school.

Boring.

Really not interested in seeing that movie.

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Talk

We love to talk about things we’re in the process of trying to bring to life. Discussing it makes it more of a solid entity in your mind, makes it feel more like a thing that exists in the real world.

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My first in eight years I saw this lovely piece of artwork and decided to write a story of an unexpected conversation between my two favourite characters in the show it's from, Girls und Panzer, even though they have no screentime together and no bond whatsoever in the show. Much like how I started out in fan fiction all those years ago, actually, so it felt a bit like going back to the beginning.

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I posted this a while ago as a reply comment to a blog of Wanderer D's, but thought it was worth a blog of its own. Because this is something so many people screw up, when it's really the easiest thing to get right, and I struggle to understand how many seem to find it so hard.

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Funny the things that stay with you. The first quote here popped into my head earlier today, when I put on a coat I hadn't worn in a while. And it got me thinking about how fanfiction, for all its humility, sometimes makes a lasting impact. That can be a story twist, a characterisation, a witty barb of dialogue... but sometimes it's just a little bit of prose. And it worms its way in, and sticks with you for years and years, because there's just something about the phrasing that's a tiny bit

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I published a new story back in January. The one before it (Constrictive Criticism) was unimportant. The one since (Like You) wasn't important either. But the one in between, with Maud on the cover, that was a big deal to me.

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In half an hour we launch the first thing to fly on Mars.

I think they should name her Spitfire.