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*waves* Good morning, folks! Welcome to readers and lurkers alike. :) Okay, so it's actually almost afternoon. How is everyone today?
Dear lord, people in the house have been finding Kamikaze Plate splinters (from the Plate Bomb incident of last night) in the hallways, in other rooms, on countertops... what a way to go if you're a suicidal plate.
I have a few ideas for new fics bouncing around up here. I'm hoping that my writing does improve with time-- I've always loved doing it, but just never really devoted the time to it to improve my craft. That goes for general fiction as well as fan works-- I occasionally get a spurt of inspiration and just HAVE to write something, but then I go through long dry periods. I'm also terrible at beta-ing my own stuff. When you've been staring at a story for hours, you might be able to pick out the technical issues like punctuation, grammar, and spelling, but continuity errors or character inconsistencies or the fact that there may simply be a better way to tell the story is often lost on me. And, in relation to Who fic especially, not being British or even having been to England makes writing predominantly British characters (okay, so I know the Doctor is an alien and isn't supposed to be British, but still...) a bit tricky. I kinda need a beta if I'm going to do this more often.
I have something flitting around inside my head about a harp that grants hearts' desires, and the chaos that ensues from that, but I'm not sure about that one. My mind is making entirely fictional (um. well, not ENTIRELY fictional, but the applications I'd make would be) and possibly too far-fetched connections between resonance and sound, wave/particle forms and observation, and, well, other quantum-mechanical mumbo-jumbo that I don't really know how to explain (to myself... LOL) as part of the story. I'm thinking that the Doctor and Rose see it as some centerpiece of civilization while visiting some highly advanced planet, and despite the Doctor's warning that such things often do more harm than good, somehow events transpire that let Rose (or perhaps force her to?) play the harp (bless her, she's so curious, and jeopardy friendly). But I'm not sure. Besides, Orson Scott Card wrote a book like that once, only it wasn't about a harp. Of course, that doesn't necessarily bar me from writing about the same theme. Themes are often repeated in literature and art-- it's how they're handled that makes a fail or succeed. Hm. Any thoughts? Anyone?
Dear lord, people in the house have been finding Kamikaze Plate splinters (from the Plate Bomb incident of last night) in the hallways, in other rooms, on countertops... what a way to go if you're a suicidal plate.
I have a few ideas for new fics bouncing around up here. I'm hoping that my writing does improve with time-- I've always loved doing it, but just never really devoted the time to it to improve my craft. That goes for general fiction as well as fan works-- I occasionally get a spurt of inspiration and just HAVE to write something, but then I go through long dry periods. I'm also terrible at beta-ing my own stuff. When you've been staring at a story for hours, you might be able to pick out the technical issues like punctuation, grammar, and spelling, but continuity errors or character inconsistencies or the fact that there may simply be a better way to tell the story is often lost on me. And, in relation to Who fic especially, not being British or even having been to England makes writing predominantly British characters (okay, so I know the Doctor is an alien and isn't supposed to be British, but still...) a bit tricky. I kinda need a beta if I'm going to do this more often.
I have something flitting around inside my head about a harp that grants hearts' desires, and the chaos that ensues from that, but I'm not sure about that one. My mind is making entirely fictional (um. well, not ENTIRELY fictional, but the applications I'd make would be) and possibly too far-fetched connections between resonance and sound, wave/particle forms and observation, and, well, other quantum-mechanical mumbo-jumbo that I don't really know how to explain (to myself... LOL) as part of the story. I'm thinking that the Doctor and Rose see it as some centerpiece of civilization while visiting some highly advanced planet, and despite the Doctor's warning that such things often do more harm than good, somehow events transpire that let Rose (or perhaps force her to?) play the harp (bless her, she's so curious, and jeopardy friendly). But I'm not sure. Besides, Orson Scott Card wrote a book like that once, only it wasn't about a harp. Of course, that doesn't necessarily bar me from writing about the same theme. Themes are often repeated in literature and art-- it's how they're handled that makes a fail or succeed. Hm. Any thoughts? Anyone?