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Jun. 20th, 2011

Where's the what?

Kaz has helpfully collected address details for a bunch of Buffy'verse characters, as well as a handful of Sunnydale geography pointers.

The Magic Box
5124 Maple Court
Sunnydale, California

Rosenberg, Willow & Buffy Summers (at college)
Stevenson Hall, Room 214
University of California, Sunnydale
Sunnydale, California

- The Fish Tank and Willi's Alibi Room are located in the same part of town as the warehouses
- The Sunnydale Armory is ten blocks east of the center of town
- Sunnydale Beach can be reached off of I-17, Municipal bus #13
- Sunnydale Ice Rink is on I-17, Municipal bus #66 (but the opposite way from the beach)


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Feb. 8th, 2008

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This has been around for a while, so some of you may have come across it before. But it's new to me, and I'm the boss here.

Way back when in season 3, the writers for Battlestar Galactica set up a mic in the writers room whilst they broke the story for the episode 'Scar'. There's nearly three hours of unedited recordings of these proper paid writers crafting the episode, and it makes for some fascinating listening. Or I thought so anyway.

Part 1 is here
Part 2 is here
Part 3 is here

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Jan. 31st, 2008

In every generation...

[info]minisinoo has some pragmatic tips on how to start your story and hook a reader from the off.

In the current environment awash with paperback novels, publishing wisdom says you get between 3 paragraphs and 3 pages (more often the former than the latter) to interest a reader. This applies to fanfic no less than to published fiction. If you can't grab a reader by that point, the reader puts the book down and tries something else (unless really desperate). That's the hard, cold, brutal truth.


Visit the super spiffy fic archive Season2Ep14.net for a whole bunch of kick ass BtVS and Angel fic. If you’d like to contribute to The Writers Room LJ, then mosey on over here.

Jan. 29th, 2008

I wrote my thesis on you!

Some interesting reading on William The Bloody.

This thesis is based on Lydia the Watcher's line in the episode "Checkpoint" (Buffy season 5). On first meeting Spike she says in awe, "I wrote my thesis on you!"

We submit this collaborative effort as the thesis Lydia wrote. We have given her the last name Chalmers. Since we imagine this thesis to have been completed in May of 1998, any information about Spike or Sunnydale which has appeared since then will not have been available to her.


Visit the super spiffy fic archive Season2Ep14.net for a whole bunch of kick ass BtVS and Angel fic. If you’d like to contribute to The Writers Room LJ, then mosey on over here.

Jul. 26th, 2007

Wait, I have a condition. Whoop! Goh-boy! Dirty bitch!

[info]rexluscus has something to say on writing tics. More interesting though, is the comments.

There are a number of these things: overused words and phrases that are basically empty, and that provide an escape route from the more evocative phrase you could have used instead. Frankly, I want a list of these. I know of a few that plague my own writing, but I'm sure there are loads more that I don't even think about.



Visit the super spiffy fic archive Season2Ep14.net for a whole bunch of kick ass BtVS and Angel fic. If you’d like to contribute to The Writers Room LJ, then mosey on over here.

Jul. 13th, 2007

You get credit for speaking, right?

Doris Egan ([info]tightropegirl), a writer on House and Tru Calling amongst other shows, has something to say on POV.

Of course, all this talk of honesty doesn't mean the narrator might not be fooling himself. The unreliable narrator is one of the charms and risks of first-person. (I am firmly convinced that House, for example, if he were writing his own story, would be one of the most unreliable narrators in the history of the planet. Which is ironic from someone who values realism as much as he does.) The risk to the author is that some readers may not pick up that the protagonist's view of his reality is inaccurate, or to what degree he's fooling himself -- and whether, on some level, he knows it and is avoiding opening that closet door.


Part 2 is here.

Visit the super spiffy fic archive Season2Ep14.net for a whole bunch of kick ass BtVS and Angel fic. If you’d like to contribute to The Writers Room LJ, then mosey on over here.

Jul. 11th, 2007

You should come to our class on big thinking. It's good.

I'm not sure how I missed this, but:

Back in 2005 Joss Whedon and Tim Minear both gave hour long talks on writing and the art of breaking a story at the Screenwriter's Expo in LA.

[info]_eb has her notes from the event written up.

What were some of the Firefly stories you never got to tell?
He hemmed and hawed, “Should I tell you this?… Oh well, what’s he going to do, fire me?” The original show was darker and this story was more in keeping with that tone.
It opens with Mal and Inara fighting (as they do). Mal tells her she pretends to be a lady and wants everyone to bow before her and kiss her hand but she’s just a whore. Then the Reavers attack and take Inara. While trying to get her back they learn that she had something that would make anyone who had sex with her die. When they finally track down and board the ship they find all of the Reavers dead and Inara shaking and traumatized.


What I didn't realise was that there's a DVD of each of the two sessions available here and here.

Visit the super spiffy fic archive Season2Ep14.net for a whole bunch of kick ass BtVS and Angel fic. If you’d like to contribute to The Writers Room LJ, then mosey on over here.

May. 15th, 2007

You're a complicated man.

Creating original believable characters in your fic ain't an easy thing to do. Luckily, [info]wisteria_ has some handy hints.

If you're having a hard time coming up with a character, period, look at your story and find all the tangential people who could become involved. For example, if you're writing a fic in which Spike is playing poker, think of the types of people (or demons) he'd be playing with. Choose one to write about. On a similar note, what about the waitress bringing them their drinks? How does she react to the situation? You might never use this character in your story, but it's a great way to imagine how original characters could become involved.


Visit the super spiffy fic archive Season2Ep14.net for a whole bunch of kick ass BtVS and Angel fic. If you’d like to contribute to The Writers Room LJ, then mosey on over here.

May. 13th, 2007

Dear One

[info]bookishwench examines Darla's view on love and relationships and the thing's that have shaped those views.

The key to understanding Darla’s view of relationships is her human life. We are told very little about her, but it’s what we are not told that is every bit as crucial. For example, we have no idea what her name was as a mortal. Angel [see note B] discovers in the episode “Darla” that the name Darla didn’t come into common usage until 100 years after she had died. He assumes the Master must have given her the name


Visit the super spiffy fic archive Season2Ep14.net for a whole bunch of kick ass BtVS and Angel fic. If you’d like to contribute to The Writers Room LJ, then mosey on over here.

Apr. 26th, 2007

Like Bowie

There's changes afoot! Season2Ep14.net is undergoing a major re-design.

Over the next few hours the new CSS based layout will go live for the main archive (The Zone Noir will remain using the old layout for a few days, and will follow if nothing implodes in the meantime).

As a result, you might see the odd glitch as files are replaced. Posting is still live, but won't actually show up on the site until after the new layout is up.

Comments and feedback on the new layout are welcome! Hopefully I won't break anything.


Visit the super spiffy fic archive Season2Ep14.net for a whole bunch of kick ass BtVS and Angel fic. If you’d like to contribute to The Writers Room LJ, then mosey on over here.
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