How to.

[kaydeefalls]

This is what happens when you listen to the "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" soundtrack over and over and over and over and...


How to avoid dumb clichés
How to write decent dialogue
How to sit down at a comp
How to get yourself a beta
How to develop your fanfiction style
How boys have sex
Without breaking their necks
From positions that give readers bile.
This fic is all that you need:
How to, how to succeed!

How to observe Livejournals
How to select those to read from
How to post to the right lists
How to begin getting feedback
How to find plot bunnies ready to bite
With an idea
Brilliant slashfic idea
That can make even your shit sound right
This fic is all that you need:
How to, how to succeed!

This musical is sucking out my soul, I swear.

Comments

[gabbyhope.livejournal.com]

I adore you, Kaydee.

Now, if you write a parody to something from Rent, you'll own my soul.

"500,025,600 typos..."

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

::bows::

RENT? Rent, you say? You mean the musical I can *actually* go through by memory, in its entirety? Mwah-hah-hah-hah!

...and shouldn't that be 525,600 typos? Although yours is probably more accurate...

Re:

[gabbyhope.livejournal.com]

I wrote five hundred million, twenty five thou...

I know the music, I don't know the math.

I blame this on LJ being freaky today.

Yes! Rent! And if not that, Les Mis. Or The Producers. Or West Side Story Or... or... *fizzes out*

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

And if not that, Les Mis. Or The Producers. Or West Side Story
Check, check, and check. How about some Sweeney Todd, while we're at it? Into the Woods? Miss Saigon?

...wow, I'm a total theater freak.

Re:

[gabbyhope.livejournal.com]

...wow, I'm a total theater freak.

*clings!*

Chicago. Ragtime. Guys and Dolls. Oliver!

Right there with you.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

::eyes bug out:: Whoa...there's someone other than me who knows and likes Ragtime?! ::squeals::

Re:

[gabbyhope.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm just excited you like Rent! The others are just icing, man, icing.

...does 'Your Daddy's Son' get stuck in your head, as well? Especially when I'm working. Oy.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Not so much that song. "Make Them Hear You" tends to be my head's constant companion. And "The Show Biz." Except I don't know all the words, so it's just the same verse repeated over and over and over...

And. Rent. Of course!