Summer Knight's only saving graces: Billy the Werewolf and Lea. srsly.

Can I just say? People who said Fool Moon was a slow read were LYING LIARS WHO LIED. You know what was a slow read? Summer Knight, AKA the book it's taken me weeks to finish because its slooooooow.

And, admittedly, because I've been skipping ahead. I've read most of Death Masks now. That's how dull SK was for me-- I, she who must watch every show from the pilot to the finale chronologically skipping nothing, picked up the next book and started on that one.

But whatever. SK is behind me, I have more background on the Fae (I am actually taking mental notes on each group in this series, things my fannish research hasn't dug up), and now onto a much more interesting book. Yaaaay.

Ganked from Canis_takahari

This actually looked pretty interesting and I've been thinking of my Author Appeals and Signature Style a lot lately.

six ways you can tell you're reading a fic by luciazephyr

1. The title is from a song and is often in lowercase. I like the look of it and actively dislike the rules of what words are capitalized in titles, so I lowercase everything partly to avoid that altogether.



2. Reference Overdosed. I will flanderize Fitz Kreiner's reading habits so he will casually drop references to Vonnegut while reading Danielewski. If the character I'm writing is even hinted at being pop cultured, I will exploit that mercilessly.



3. I reference Greek Mythology in everything. Everything. To date, off the top of my head, I know I've written things that mention Aeolus, Astraeus, Artemis, Athena, Icarus, Hestia, Hades, Persephone, Ganymede, Aoide, Orpheus, and probably even more. My penname is Zephyrus for a reason.



4. I overuse a particular sentence structure. "[character speaking]," [they said as they did this], [then more description]. Comma, comma, period.



5. I write in chunks, in "scenes." This goes back to the fact I've grown up in fandom and because of that I write a certain way. I started by writing short fics and Five Ways format. Now that I'm getting into longer (MUCH LONGER, christ, do not ask me how long the Dresdenfic is going to be, I don't even want to think about it) works, I still carry that format a little.



6. I cannot write in omniscient third person. I need to keep my writing close to the inside of the POV character's mind. How they observe and think about the world is even more important than the world itself to me.

FIC: other things the road to hell is paved with [3/?]

Okay, after this one, there'll be some downtime before the next chapter as the next one isn't written yet and I have school to focus on first. Sorry folks.

Title: other things the road to hell is paved with [3/?]
Rating/Warnings: PG-13, potentially R or NC-17 later.
Summary: Another way the Baron rose to power. Another way the wizard became a Knight.
Word Count: This chapter: 5817. So far: 16373.

Chapter One | Chapter Two

( oh would you ease my mind now? the ghost of you lingers )