An A Word A Day quote from a few days ago ( Read more... )

You know you've made a pairing/fandom shift when the A Word A Day quotes now bring to mind House/Wilson instead of Snape/Lupin ( Read more... )

Whatever happened to the days when the presidents were really smart guys?

Today's A Word A Day quote:

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
-James Madison, fourth US president (1751-1836)

( And some tangential ramblings about Obama )

A Word A Day has quotes at the bottom, and sometimes they're applicable to life in general, or writing, or HP fanfic specifically. Take today's:

I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundred fold (words of Frankenstein monster ( Read more... )

My immediate thought upon finding out that yet another lj person is a lesbian:

There are more lesbians in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your Penthouse Forums.

--not quite from Hamlet

Sitting in temple today for Rosh Hashana, and this section leapt off the page at me:

When will redemption come?

When we master the violence that fills our world.
When we look upon others as we would have them look upon us.
When we grant to every person the rights we claim for ourselves.Now, of course, this is the same prayerbook we use every ( Read more... )

1_bad_idea laughs at me for having too many fic ideas running around my head, but today's A Word A Day quote shows I'm not alone. (BTW, do you think this is the source of the expression "plot bunny ( Read more... )

So today's A Word A Day word was just too good not to post about. I think it ought to be a fic challenge for HP, not VG; it would be too hard to deal with this situation without magic.

atretic (uh-TRET-ik) adjective ( Read more... )

I need all the help I can get with "show, not tell" in my writing, and today's quote from A Word A Day has a good example:

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
-Anton Chekhov, short-story writer and dramatist (1860-1904)

Another HBP thing: the award for Best. Quip. Ever. goes to isiscolo who I think is the one who said, on some journal somewhere: ( spoiler )