Something Lumpy Is Lurking Under My Fandom....
It's not going to be a fun week, mostly because I'll be spending a great deal of it working. Not that working is as such a particularly bad thing (hey, money is good, yes?), but as there's substancially more shifts I need to work this time around, the hours themselves may do me in. So while there will be a very happy paycheck waiting for me at the end of this rainbow, it's still going to be long and strenuous. As such, there may be a teensy bit o' "so when is this idiot going to post again?" happening this week.
And so to entertain you, if not for a few minutes, I give you...
Link-O'-Rama!!! (brought to you in Blog-o-vision!)
Wax Banks - while it's Whedonverse-based, this is a particularly cool & insightful article about writing to give your readers not just what they want, but to still leave them wanting more (and thusly loving you for it):
http://waxbanks.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/what_you_want_w.htmlThe Mary Sue Project - the (literary) science of self-insertion, proving that Mary Sues can in fact be educational and not serve solely as MST-fodder:
http://www.hbook.com/publications/magazine/articles/nov06_almagor.aspFandom Wank - for all your deleriously amusing anecdotes on people whose egos are too lumpy & fragile:
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/Labels: links, lumpy ego, Mary Sue, wank
posted by Phillip at 5:42 AM
