The past day or so has given me a gigantic roller-coaster of linguistic emotion. One moment, I was absolutely, utterly crushed and devastated. And then, glory shone from the communicative heavens above.

( The Shock )

Because I have a speech I should be writing, and it's much more fun to distract myself from writing by writing about writing ( Read more... )

For no particular reason, I find myself craving short, snappy nuggets of theatrical/cinematic/televised wisdom. Those delightful zingers that carry truth on their barbs. So let's have a zinger party! Bring out your best dramatic one-liners. I'll start.

From 1776. John Adams: "It's a revolution, dammit! We're going to have to offend somebody

I've been reading for a while about revenge-themed movies. Revenge seems to be a popular theme for movies, and sometimes it's done well and sometimes it isn't. But it got me thinking about the concept of revenge. For all the plots made around it, you rarely see one that takes the time to examine just what revenge is and what it can mean ( Read more... )

Ah, Spring Break. A magical time when I can set my dissertation aside for just a moment and cover a fictional alley behind a fictional London steakhouse with way too much fictional blood, and send in one horrified fictional Police Squad! and one only slightly less horrified fictional Consulting Detective.

I've finally finished the Improbable Crossover!

Of course, now comes the really hard part: figuring out how to introduce it. I guess I'll come up with something. Watch this space. I'll probably start posting it some time after Thanksgiving.

Was just watching this video on how to make old-fashioned pincurls, the kind that are moderately loose and wavy and Old-Hollywood-via-Little-House-on-the-Prairie. I'm always kind of fascinated watching people work so hard to curl their hair, mostly because almost every single method they use would, if used on me, end up actually straightening my ( Read more... )

I had a sudden thought about writing that amused me, so I will proceed to inflict it on all you lovely flisters ( Read more... )

I can see it . . . shining over the horizon . . . just beyond my grasp . . . the conclusion of the latest fic draws nigh!Now, if only I didn't have to imagine my way through an entire financial investigation of a politician, a scene that will not actually appear in the story, just so that I can figure out how to get the required characters into the ( Read more... )

Got some time to kill before Colloquium, and I was just kind of wondering . . . what kind of tropes do you folks find yourself either really liking to read or really liking to write ( Read more... )