PTSD Links (and sex ed bonus)
Published December 14, 2009 06:14 AM
A post of links from my research, so I don’t lose them. But there might be something here to interest some of you too.
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Trigger warnings
Published December 6, 2009 12:26 PM
This morning I was led to think more deeply about my “Warning” blocks at the tops of some of my more graphically violent chapters.
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Overwriting vs. Lyricism
Published November 8, 2009 10:40 AM
Despite everything, it was a beautiful chapter. I noticed it wasn’t as lenghty in lyrical descriptions, but the most recent chapters have been that way too. Is this part of your new style, Jenny?
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Love triangles: Identity vs. Essence
Published October 30, 2009 02:42 PM
I just read an article on Writer Unboxed that made a dozen blinky lightbulbs go on in my head.
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Exorcising Saeward
Published October 7, 2009 11:55 AM
This was how his dreams fell apart.
I wrote that last night just before I climbed up to bed.
Like most nights, for a few lucid minutes ideas about the coming chapter twined themselves up with a plan of attack for a programming problem I’m having at work. Then I fell limp, suddenly exhausted. And still I slept awfully.
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Why all these babies lately?
Published September 6, 2009 02:47 PM
In a comment to “Condal learns a lot about a man”, maria wrote:
Lothere, why all these babies lately? And mostly in awful or negative contex? (killing babies, abortion, rape baby, demon babies) Is it intentional or just a coincidence? Or am I just more prone to notice that kinds of things?
It’s a good question, but the question within the question — “why mostly in awful or negative contexts” — is part of the answer, so I will tackle both of the questions together.
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Opposites attract, except not
Published August 28, 2009 05:22 PM
After much aimless wandering through the Internets, I came across the article “Why We Love Who We Love”, supposedly by Dr. Joyce Brothers. (Though it’s on romantic-lyrics.com — not exactly the most scholarly source).
The topic is endlessly fascinating to me, as someone who spends a lot of time putting imaginary characters together and documenting the attractions. Here’s a part that stuck with me (emphasis mine):
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"Naughty Bits" storyline is up
Published July 19, 2009 09:00 AM
I made a “storyline” consisting of all my chapters featuring hot kisses and sex. That way you can skip all those 1600+ boring chapters and get straight to the good stuff. 
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Notes on "Matilda meets the fairy tale King"
Published July 4, 2009 03:00 PM
I thought that comments on the latest chapter had the potential to become a spoiler-fest, so I wanted to move the discussion over here. I wanted to explain a few things about what I was trying to accomplish and why I made certain choices, because I actually feel a bit guilty about how some of the characters (Alred*cough*) turned out.
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Writing humor
Published June 25, 2009 12:57 PM
In case there are any of you who read this blog but don’t read Penelope’s, there has been an interesting discussion about writing humor on the Sims Writers Alliance this past week.
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