Not too long ago Amethyst asked me to make my essays available...

[icarus]

... now it's come up again from another venue.

So here they are in a handy-dandy list, and hopefully they'll be up on my site soon (thanks xenoface):

Primer On Basic Writing Skills

How To Beta Review

How To Write For the Internet

How To Organise A Story: Icarus Gets Out The Weed-Wacker

Writing A Good Fuck

How To Write Poor English: Foreigners In Fiction

How To Write A Battle Scene

Lessons On Swordsmanship

How To Write Harry Potter Magic

The Wank Survival Kit

Staying Out Trouble On Fanfiction.net: How To Publish A Slash Story

Comments

Thank you!

[hilarita.livejournal.com]

That's a very useful survival kit. I'm a discerning reader of slash (I hope), mostly HP and LotR. However, I've become more interested in writing now, and I find it quite difficult. This is mostly because I read the best stories, and find I can't live up to that, because I can't write magic well, or get tied up in the smuttier scenes. The suggestions here are most useful, and you have done me and I suspect many others a great service.