Why does this fly keep attacking my face! I am a hygenic person!
The human brain is a Black Box. We have an input (our senses), output (our decisions and behaivor), and very limited understanding of the processes that connect the two. Given that set-up, I would define "free will" as "a variable wholly disconnected from the input stream, which originates inside the black box system, and alters the output."
Dang. I just learned about danmakufu, which is a bullet hell game creator. I was so excited because I really really wanted to try my hand at making a Touhou-style spellcard for Celestia. Unfortunately, I'll never be able to do that because I'm working on a public computer and don't have administrative rights, which means I can't change the locale settings in order to get the program to run.
I'm really short on cash these days, and I've been going over several ideas on how to fix that situation. One that crosses my mind is doing commissioned stories. I know artists do commissions all the time, but fanfiction is kind of a different beast. What do you think, if I were to try that, would any of you be interested?