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Fanfic teaches you such cool things about the way you write.
For example, Harry Potter fanfic has taught me that I like to have characters thinking things over while driving cars. I am a notorious thinker-overer-while-driving, so it isn't a huge shock that my characters would do the same thing. But the fact that I had to actually think of an alternative activity for Hermione to be doing while she was ( Read more... ) -
Stupid stuff I think about
If Raymond Chandler were writing Harry Potter fanfic and he got writers block, would he have two men with wands burst through the door?
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Outmanned, outgunned, outconned
WorldCon is awesome.
But it is tiring.
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Blatantly stolen from GBLVR
WHAT HOUSE ARE YOU IN? Ravenclaw according to a kid at my church since I was knitting a dark blue and gray scarf (also the colors of my law school)
ARE YOU GOING TO SEE HBP AT MIDNIGHT? mammal -willing, you betcha. If she can't go, I might wait and see it with her. My husband won't be into it.
WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER? Snape, though I also have ( Read more... ) -
Wahoo! They let me come back
I am again a guest theatrical reviewer for the Fringe Festival. No pay, but free theatre tickets. So that's good.
In other news, I've managed to forget both my cell phone and the power cord for my laptop. Grr. -
Severus Big Bang Birthday Bash
I am working on a piece for it, all full of Snapely goodness. But it is mostly Severus through the eyes of someone else and the bash is explicitly Snape-centric, which worries me as I have a bad habit of running afoul of the rules of stuff like this. I'm never a bitch about it to the people telling me my fic isn't what they wanted, or I ( Read more... ) -
Question for careful HP readers.
If a muggle and a wizard wished to communicate by letter, is there an established way to do it ( Read more... ) -
Halfway through father's day
and nobody has called to tell me my family is getting together ( Read more... ) -
Just saw the "Booth, father my baby" episode of Bones
(Given that this episode aired a couple of days ago and its contents had been well and truly leaked, I don't think there are any spoilers here. )
And I'm wondering:
1. Is Bones written really well AND really badly at the same time
or
2. Am I now the sort of person who cries at badly-written TV shows?
Given that the sentence that made me bawl was "If I ( Read more... )