I've been musing lately on the issue of enjoying a work of fiction despite not believing in its premise.

( Long ramblings within )

One aspect of book fandom that I've never been able to relate to at all is the casting game - i.e. suggesting which actors should play the characters in a hypothetical film of the book. I never have any ideas at all. I don't clearly envisage characters as I read a book, but just have a vague, impressionistic sort of image of them. I can certainly ( Read more... )

I don't normally post about things that make me sad, so just to get them all out of the way in one go ( Read more... )

Conversation with my mother ( Read more... )

Sorry I've been silent lately. I've been very busy editing up and posting one chapter a day of a long fanfic, which is taking up most of my mind, and the rest of it has been full of worrying about Pellinor driving a van on the Big Scary Mainland, and with dealing with the news of the cancellation of Stargate Atlantis ( Read more... )

When I'm 99 years old and living on the moon, I bet I will still feel a little spark of recognition and significance when I notice the clock reading 11.21 ( Read more... )

It's quite unsettling when the workmen you were expecting to turn up at 8.30 appear not much after 7.30. At least I was dressed, though had it not been so unfeasibly hot, I'd probably have been still in my dressing gown. "Oh, we'll need all this stuff moved before we can work," they said grimly. "I know," I said, polite, but through gritted teeth ( Read more... )

I've not posted for a while, but I still exist. A fanfic has hijacked my life and is eating my BRAIN. It's not just the writing; it has drawings, paintings, and requires a tonne of research. I'll be back in perhaps a week.

I've been quiet lately. Blame being in the closing stages of a long fic (just finished ten minutes ago!) and discovering forums ( Read more... )

Day off today. Day off tomorrow, too. Long weekend in London coming up, too - Spamalot (tomorrow night), British Museum (just another installment of the free bits. We decided not to pay in order to join a conveyor belt of humanity looking at the terracotta warriors), Forbidden Planet etc. It also seems that I've not got a cold for my birthday, ( Read more... )