Yes, I'm still working on the drabble requests from January. Whenever a longer story idea pops into my head I get distracted, but I do come back to these, and I'll eventually finish them.

girlyswot   asked for "an HP drabble with characters of your choosing to the prompt: Pure Fluff." This was a challenge, as Ros knows, for fluff doesn't come naturally to ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story in which I'm going to need the names of other stories in which either (a) someone is far away from home for a very long time (decades) and returns, or (b) lovers are separated for a long time (years) and then reunited, or (c) ideally both.

So far I've come up with:

• The Odyssey
  
• Rip Van Winkle
  
• Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre ( Read more... )

For Valentine's Day, my sweetheart gave me My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead, a collection of love stories edited by Jeffrey Eugenides. It's a great collection, Chekhov and Faulkner and de Maupassant and Nabakov and Deborah Eisenberg and Malamud and Alice Munro and Eileen Chang and... Well. It's a wonderful present. (I'm not telling what I gave her.)

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A personal pscyhological speculation:

JKR overtly did not write a romance.  Her story is ultimately about love, but it is the "greater love hath no man" kind of love rather than romantic love.  Yet I found myself always drawn to the love stories in the books to the exclusion of other threads.  In DH, I was more interested in what was going to  ( Read more... )

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