Confessions of an FF Writer: New Year Edition!

A New Year… Same old Resolutions? By Pemberly Rose   Welcome to 2012 everybody! I hope everyone has had a wonderful and relaxing New Year! I know I had a pretty great one filled with peaceful silence, fun dinners with friends and lots and lots of sleep. You really can never get too much sleep when you’re in college....

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When Plot Bunnies attack

When Plot Bunnies Attack! By: Pemberly Rose   November is National Novel Writing Month. Also known as NaNoWriMo. For years I’ve participated in NaNo in some form or another unofficially, writing or editing with a friend. I had hoped that this would be the year I would crank out 50k words in one month but alas no. This year,...

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Confessions of an FF Writer: September Edition

  Of Fandom charity   By: Pemberly Rose   When I joined the idea of “fandom” back in late fall 1998 I was the ripe old age of 13. I had no concept of the word fandom or the ideals of fandoms doing good in the name of the bands/actors/books/shows/movies that they love so much. Flash forward to 2009 and I’m in...

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Confessions of a FF Writer: Random Inspiration

Random Inspiration By: Pemberly Rose   Inspiration: noun 1. an inspiring or animating action or influence: I cannot write poetry without inspiration. 2. something inspired, as an idea. 3. a result of inspired activity. 4. a thing or person that inspires. 5. Theology .a. a divine influence directly and immediately exerted upon...

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A Book Lover’s Rant on Respect and Bullying

R. E. S. P. E. C. T. by: Pemberly Rose First let me preface this with, yes it has indeed been far too long since I’ve done one of these. Family drama in the extreme. Divorce, death, all that wonderfully *not* angsty stuff that has taken up all of my free time that wasn’t occupied by school. Also a disclaimer. This will...

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Confessions: March Edition

  Telling someone about your obsession…   Now you know that I’m pretty closeted when it comes to fic. My family and close friends don’t know about it. Sure I post my real picture on my twitter account however, only two real life friends (who I met through another fandom) actually know about that...

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Confessions of A Closeted Fanfic Writer: February Edition

Real Life Vs. Fic Life By: Pemberly Rose Last month we talked about how difficult it is to get through a blockage when you’re trying to write anything, from FF to orig fic to just a homework assignment (if you’re a college person like me), now how do we balance our fic lives with the ones that surround us. Now I know we all...

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Confessions of A Closeted Fanfic Writer: January Edition

Of Blockages and Blinking Cursors By: Pemberly Rose For this month’s Confession I was stumped for a bit. I didn’t know what exactly I wanted to talk about until Wednesday of this past week. It hit me as I was trying to work on my fic Life in Technicolor. You see I had this plan. The fic has little over a dozen chapters left...

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Of Closets and Fanfiction

Psst…I have a secret… One I share with about a bazillion of strangers on the WWW, twitter, this blog and various sites. I’m a fanfic writer. Only problem…no one in my real life knows this about me. I have been in the fanfic closet since 1998. No seriously for twelve long years, I’ve been evasive and hiding what I do from...

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