Round 22, Hour 1

[lolmac]

Welcome to fic_rush!  Where the fic is, well, rushy!!

If you've never been here before, take a minute to introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on.  Or what you hope to be working on.

If you have been here before, well, take a minute to introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on.  Or what you hope to be working on.

Extra points will be awarded to anyone wearing purple, or who can see a purple object from where they're sitting.

Round 22, Hour 2

[lolmac]

It's Hour 2 already!  No sign yet of Hour 5, so if it's become displaced, it's moving forwards and not back.

We have stocked up with buckets of plot handwavium, for anyone in need.  Also purple glowsticks, character assassins, and plot stretchers.

Round 22, Hour 3

[lolmac]

Not only do we have glowsticks, but it has been discovered that glow sticks.  To everything.  We might be able to wash it off with handwavium.

Are things shiny for you?

Round 22, Hour 4

[lolmac]

For an outstanding book on writing:  Ursula LeGuin, Steering the Craft.

For a splendid book on language:  Arthur Plotnik's Spunk and Bite, A Writer's Guide to Punchier, More Engaging Language & Style.

For a fine guide to punctuation:  Karen Gordon's The Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed.

"The rhythms of prose . . . are usually hidden or obscure, not obvious.  They may be long and large, involving the whole shape of a story, the whole course of events of a novel: so large they're hard to see, like the shapes of the mountains when you're driving on a mountain road.  But the mountains are there." -- Steering the Craft, p. 54

"Teachers trying to get school kids to write clearly, and journalists with their weird rules of writing, have filled a lot of heads with the notion that the only good sentence is a short sentence.  This is true for convicted criminals." -- ibid., p. 40