"… beguiling the tedium of the way by describing to him in detail the various exhibits he had that morning seen at Merlin's Mechanical Museum. These included such attractions as a juggler, an aerial cavalcade, Merlin's Cave, and a set of Antique Whispering Busts (very ingenious); but these had not interested Felix as much as a hydraulic vase, a ( Read more... )

I was reading through old entries to make sure my tagging habits had not gone astray (namely: does 'writing' mean 'about writing' or 'fiction' or both?) and came across a link which I will repeat here, on the nature of the Mary Sue. I mostly agree with the definition given, with the caveat that a Mary Sue (as I use the term) need not be ( ( Read more... )

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Alright, I realize that I'm spoiled, but come on, people! Text rotation and text direction. I want them. ( I do databases. Not spreadsheets, databases. )

Ack, ack, ack. I'm so sorry~~~ I've been ignoring LJ in favor of... uh ( Read more... )

I... I may have just accidentally finished a story I hadn't intended on being anywhere near done with. But I came to a moral ending phrase, and that's how I usually end my stories, and I can't think of how to continue it and -

OMG, I now have the ending. God, it's so corny, but it works with the title perfectly. And I'm at... nearly 9k. Words, I ( Read more... )

THE TALE OF CUSTARD THE DRAGON
      by Ogden Nash
            (c) Linell Nash Smith and Isabel Nash Eberstadt

Belinda lived in a little white house,
With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,
And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,
And a realio, trulio, little pet dragon.

( which involves some pirates )

Passing it on from askerianhttp://community.livejournal.com/paidmembers/18838.htmlRead more... )

One day, a cat, a raven, a snake, and a wolf all met, and because each were proud, they refused to bow to the other, and so they had a competition to determine who should be king of the forest. The wolf went first ( Read more... )

Sometimes I follow links to links to links ad infinitum, unless I get distracted. Today, I started with linadarkstar, and after not much clicking whatsoever, reached this. It happens to be a really very good, if somewhat longwinded and linky, definition of what constitutes the *dun dun DUN* Mary Sue.

Heh.