Sherlock Holmes & writing
I've been reading Sherlock Holmes like a lunatic lately. Talking about canon here, although I have been reading quite some fanfiction too. But oh - the short stories! They're just so entertaining and Sherlock Holmes is just brilliant and I LOVE IT SFM. I'm currently reading The hound of the Baskervilles, it's great as usual. The only story so far that I didn't really like was The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge. I don't know why. Uninteresting plot maybe? Hm. Anyway, Arthur Conan Doyle, I salute you.
In other news, yesterday happybike dropped by and we discovered it is very likely that she has read my supercorny shameless self-insertion Orlando/OFC story. Which. OMG. Freaky coincidence. Hahaha. Anyway, I googled to check if it was still posted somewhere, which led me to an Orlando Bloom message board (which was still active!) that I hadn't visited in four? five? years, and lo and behold, I had a PM from August 09 from a girl asking me if I could send the above mentioned story to her, since she read it years ago and wanted to reread it. HAHAHA WTF. Anyway, I think it's as good as gone now. I don't want to go through the trouble of visiting every message board I visited at the time (there were many, my tendency to pimp my own stories has existed from the start) to find & delete all the crap I posted, so I'm just going to hope nobody will ever find and read them.
ANYWAY. Point is, I totally feel like rewriting all of my old stories now. Or, well, not all of them, just the completed ones that can still be saved a little. A few months ago I was in the process of rewriting the too-long too-corny Jude/Orlando story I wrote for cesevieve's birthday a few years ago. I never got round to finishing it. I liked that fic, or at least the beginning, before it got corny. Oh hell, what am I still doing here? Laptop, here I come!
ETA: I saw Dorian Gray today. Dorian was perfectly cast. Like, really perfectly. The movie was good, especially Colin Firth in a less-than-charming role. But they kind of could have done without the freaky sounds and stuff concerning the portrait. I really want to reread the book, it's been a while since I read it.
I didn't remember this quote came from the book: The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Ah, Oscar Wilde. ♥ I should read more of his things.
In other news, yesterday happybike dropped by and we discovered it is very likely that she has read my supercorny shameless self-insertion Orlando/OFC story. Which. OMG. Freaky coincidence. Hahaha. Anyway, I googled to check if it was still posted somewhere, which led me to an Orlando Bloom message board (which was still active!) that I hadn't visited in four? five? years, and lo and behold, I had a PM from August 09 from a girl asking me if I could send the above mentioned story to her, since she read it years ago and wanted to reread it. HAHAHA WTF. Anyway, I think it's as good as gone now. I don't want to go through the trouble of visiting every message board I visited at the time (there were many, my tendency to pimp my own stories has existed from the start) to find & delete all the crap I posted, so I'm just going to hope nobody will ever find and read them.
ANYWAY. Point is, I totally feel like rewriting all of my old stories now. Or, well, not all of them, just the completed ones that can still be saved a little. A few months ago I was in the process of rewriting the too-long too-corny Jude/Orlando story I wrote for cesevieve's birthday a few years ago. I never got round to finishing it. I liked that fic, or at least the beginning, before it got corny. Oh hell, what am I still doing here? Laptop, here I come!
ETA: I saw Dorian Gray today. Dorian was perfectly cast. Like, really perfectly. The movie was good, especially Colin Firth in a less-than-charming role. But they kind of could have done without the freaky sounds and stuff concerning the portrait. I really want to reread the book, it's been a while since I read it.
I didn't remember this quote came from the book: The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Ah, Oscar Wilde. ♥ I should read more of his things.