Recent content by Duncan McNeil

I use OpenOffice for all of my writing, as my computer didn't come with Word. As far as I know the word counter works fine on it, and now that it's been upgraded to 3.0 it runs a lot faster. I used to use WordPad, but OpenOffice works much better (especially because of the spellchecker).

I actually wrote my first drabble a couple of months ago in a challenge. It turned out okay I thought, but I'm more for longer one-shots.

I've always been known as duncan, ever since I first signed up at SPPf with it in 2004. I have tried a few times to come up with a better name (for some wildly incomprehensible reason that's a common name in most forums), but I can never come up with something that really is my own. Although...

Choose a reviewer you'd want to review your fic: 1) A mind-numbingly harsh but very professional critic who never says anything nice or encouraging and hits you in every possible sore spot 2) Overly friendly and encouraging critic who never says anything negative and focuses on encouraging you...

Hey guys. This is a one-shot I wrote a few months back for a Sci-Fi contest on SPPf. I really liked the way it turned out, so I figured I would post it here on PC. Feel free, although certainly don't feel obligated, to review and tell me what you think. Huge, huge thanks go out to Bay for...

Hey guys, it's been a while. Do you prefer having huge plot twists that hit your readers like a runaway train over having smaller, tamer plot twists throughout the whole story? Or does it depend on story? Absolutely. I'm hopelessly addicted to creating (and reading) big, epic plot twists. It...

Thanks. I'm stuck in a 'start every chapter with some DuncanXMichelle moment'. XD Yeah, I think I've seen some of that movie but never the whole thing. I guess there was a scene in there like that? :) It never really made any sense when I did that, did it? Thing is, with all of everything...

Aha. A new chapter, nearly a month later. And who said I take too long? XD For real though, I don't know about this one. It's a bit of a bridge chapter, between the beginning of the fic and what is to come. Order? Psh, out the window. I needed more chaos anyway. Another good thing is that I...

If procrastination strikes, what do you do to overcome it? Eh...I don't. I just sit around until I get guilty for not having written in a month or so and push through the beginning, then get back going again.

Wow. That's...wow. What if one of the nurse Joys/officer Jennies got a gender change? The apocalypse would come. Although there are male officers...guess that explains that...

:O That's treachery...or treason...or...something bad, anyway. No way is leather going away...

But hardly as much fun. Who wants pleasant when we can have all kinds of mass birthings, government coverups and robots. Psh.

Pokemon Centers: How can they offer their services for free? Through taking them out back and making them fight illegally so that people can watch...oh wait... Officer Jenny/Nurse Joy: What are your thoughts on the "identical families"? The same as my thoughts on why mothers send their kinds...

In what stage of the writing process do you decide on a title? Generally when I first begin, although many times I'll use a placeholder for a while and change it before I'm totally done with it. Like my one-shot, Blazing Dreams: The Phantom Overlord. For about a month there, it was The Eternity...

When you guys are writing on the computer, do you find it easier on a desktop computer, or a laptop? Laptop. Mostly because...well that's what I have. Crap though it may be (everything > Vista), I still upgrade it and waste money on useless stuff for it like a good little Microsoft mind...