Otherwise known as license to ramble!

Left to Follow isn't quite my first fanfic ever (that would be this chapter), but nearly, and really the first one written from within fandom, in response to fandom. And it is my first Austenfic, which seems appropriate for today. Er, yesterday by now, but it was today when I wrote this. Okay.

I'm going to assume ( Read more... )

My au_bigbangs got chosen on the first day! Yay! Now I just need to finish them, ack. Between memes.

( like this one. )

explanation at the bottom, because, spoilers.  oh, and AP.

The Darcys are but one great family among hundreds, and Helen is seventeen before she has any idea who they are.

It is the first ball of her first season. Helen can hardly keep from staring - everybody seems bright and sparkling and vibrantly alive. Behind her fan, she constantly turns ( Read more... )

I've been subjecting myself to reviews of That McCullough Monstrosity again.  After blah blah Darcy is horrible and cold and only marries Elizabeth because he wants to sleep with her blah blah Elizabeth is a disrespectful impertinent shrew blah blah, I felt the urge to dig up one of my favourite Austen quotes:

Her liking Darcy and Elizabeth is ( Read more... )

Reposting these from elizabethfanfic  - since they seemed to go along with the meme I just did . . .

Awhile ago, I challenged myself to write a drabble for each of my P&P stories. The idea was to kick-start myself into writing again - I'm wasn't sure how successful it was at the time, but it ended up working fairly well.  Except that I never finished - but anyway ( Read more... )

For those who are interested, here are the stories I used for the meme, in no particular order.  Feel free to match them, if you'd like!

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I've probably participated in about three memes in the last five years, but this one - snagged from leia_naberrie - is so cool.  For me, anyway - I might have forgotten a few, so feel free to guess.  ;)

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

( I should be ashamed. Really ashamed. )

A/N: My very first story: I'm still very fond of it, although my ideas have changed, and my writing hopefully improved, since then.

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Mr Darcy,

I am certain you will understand, given the occurrences of last evening, why I feel obliged to pay a visit to my father and mother. My father is in very poor health and wishes to see his grandson before ( Read more... )