Hmm...

Last week's ds_flashfiction challenge inspired me to write about Victoria. This week, I wrote about Frannie. I wonder if next week, I'll feel the burning need to write Meg-fic.

Oh, and I added Gold and Black to my due South fiction page.

Anyone out there wanting to join a beta group?

The following is pretty much exactly what blythely says in the first post of the group:

bare_naked_beta is a Writing Community Promoting Critical Yet Friendly Feedback.

Each [timeframe] (as yet undetermined) a Victim will submit a piece of Writing for the Designated Reviewers to Nicely Yet Ruthlessly Beta.

Thus: Bare Naked Beta

Requirements for joining:

1. Being willing to be both Victim and Beta.
2. A Sense of Humour.
3. A Thick Skin.
4. A Critical Mind.
5. A Nice Email to blythely demonstrating 1-4.

NB: blythely is a lovely person who will prolly welcome y'all with open arms unless you eat babies or something.

A bit of chatter about how I write plus my second 'Firefly' ficlet:

I think that my favorite part of the ficlet challenges is writing points of view that I never would have just done on my own. I've now written Spike from the inside (and damn, I think that writing him has made me go and like him. I can't stay indifferent to people whose skin I've written in. And wow, that sounds so icky and disturbing and Silence of the Lambs.), which makes me look at him differently. I've seen things from his point of view.

Much as I hate that I don't hate Spike anymore, I love that I can write him. Objectively. I have a big thing about writing from point of view. Whenever I'm writing from a character's point of view, I have to sympathize with them. I think the Buffy/Angel romance is melodrama at its most sappy melodramatic...ness, but when I wrote a Buffy-fic set Season Five, I had a 'shipper telling me how wonderful it is to read B/A forever-type fic. Because that's how Buffy came across for me then. That's what she was telling me to write.

Writing is from the inside out for me. I have to get inside. My muse is intrusive and pushy.

Written for ff_friday. And I'm not too steady on Mal's voice yet, I don't think. He's tough. I think that I understand where he's coming from, but I never did manage to see all of the aired episodes (which doesn't stop him from infecting the way I type).
( 265 words on right and wrong )

Yay!

I am now officially employed. This is, like, the best day ever. Employment!

I'm Guest Service at Burgerville. Starts at $6.90/hr.