Keira's World

I lost my temper this morning with a reader. I posted about it on my website. It's not the first time. It won't be the last. Here are my thoughts on the subject.

Fandom. Bitching. Entitlement. Readers. Writers. Rough Trade. Stephen King. Sex Toys.

Betas, Nitpickers, Head Canon, and other fuckery.

Tonight, I'll be discussing my first and only completed project in the Sentinel Fandom that is not a cross over with Stargate. Questions in the chatroom, on the phone, or on my LiveJournal listing for this radio show are welcome.

Title: The Awakening

Author: Keira Marcos

Fandom: The Sentinel

Pairing: Blair/Jim

Betas: Ladyholder & Kelly

Status: Complete

Word Count: 69,152

Rating: NC-17 (for sex, violence, and very adult themes)

Warnings: Foul language, explicit sex, violence, murder, blood, discussion of sexual abuse and violence against minor characters, and various other things you might suspect in a story about a Sentinel Cop and his Guide. Mean!Carolyn. Selfish!Naomi.

Summary: Detective Jim Ellison doesn’t want a Guide. What he wants is peace and quiet and maybe for his ex-wife to disappear. Dr. Blair Sandburg, a successful profiler with the FBI, has nearly given up on finding his Sentinel. Then the night came where one’s pain drew the other across the country – neither will ever be the same.

Harry Potter -- writing and reading in the fandom. Fandom tropes I adore. The future of the fandom now that the book series is finished. Pairings I like. Pairings I hate. Why I hate Ron Weasley with the fury of a thousand suns.

I'm going to talk about scene building, character placement and plot necessity until I run of things. Then I'll probably ramble a bit until I run out of time.

Things I rambled about:

Plot development

FanFiction.net

Reading as a writer habit

Harry Potter

Ties That Bind

The professional editing process

Book structure and how it impacts your scenes

AND Wal-Mart

How and why plot works in the construction of your story. The difference between plot driven and character driven narrative.

How world building contributes to your story and how poor world building can ruin it.

Character profiles, personal history, dialogue, and speech patterns. How to make fake people more real to yourself and to your reader. Building a three dimensional person on a page is one of the fundamental skills of a fiction writer. Ignoring the character process does the story and your craft a huge disservice.

I'll take writing related questions the second hour. On the phone or in the chatroom.

That time I learned how to use the switch board on Blogtalk.

If this goes badly, we're just going to forget it ever happened.