I always think this will make sense later . . .

[elizabeth_hoot]

My short-term memory is pretty much made of fail.  I've lost more ideas and lines and general Cool Writerly Stuff by sheer forgetfulness than anything else.

So, I'm at work, and I have an idea for a scene, I plot it all out, and I know it will be gone in about five seconds.  So I find a piece of scrap paper and scribble some Meaningful fragment of

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am jealous. these are much more amusing and coherent than my notes.

"I am not fascinating."

Elizabeth looked up from the computer screen. "Ten thousand fangirls would beg to disagree."

i mean, come on. that is gold, right there. gold!

:D

[elizabeth_hoot]

Thank you! It made me giggle, and everybody looked at me very strangely.

*still amused at litcrit!Darcy and fandomgirl!Elizabeth*

Re Mssiah...

[nestashouse]

... nothing to do with Austen, but one of my favourite anecdotes, and I think an authentic one:

Handel was in Chester, preparing to put on Messiah, and needed a tenor who could sight-read. A man was found who claimed to have this skill, but the rehearsal showed him to be absolutely useless.

'But you told me you could sing at sight!' stormed the composer.

'So I can,' replied the tenor indignantly, 'but not at FIRST sight.'

Hee!

[elizabeth_hoot]

Poor Handel. It's so hard to get good help.

[hlbr]

Awww, all those lines! The ones I can recognize for what project they are! *is excited for all of them*

(I kinda love and want to marry the LiA bits.)

*g*

[elizabeth_hoot]

You can probably recognise most of them by their projects. I expect the LIA bits are really obvious . . . LOL! I'm glad you're enjoying them. ;)

[phoenixgfawkes]

The last one was lovely and I can't wait to see it included in one of your fics. I'm terribly fond of Cecily.

And some of them made me snicker, like the one on God being a woman, the percentage of Darcy's smiles in the novel and the ten thousand fangilrs who disagree.

Thank you.

[elizabeth_hoot]

It's from SC, of course, but a LOOOOONG way off. I'm so glad you like Cecily, though! She's such a bizarre character.

Heh. Thank you! Those all belong to the same fic I am, um, of course not writing at all. There was a rather funny radio play with a similar theme - I don't know if it's still available online, but it's all meta-y and the characters realising they are characters (and Lydia, specifically, realising she isn't the heroine) - at one point Lydia calls Darcy an idiot and he's all 'actually, I'm clever. The Authoress says so, chapter four. So there.' It was awesome.

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[phoenixgfawkes]

I can only imagine Lydia's shock at finding out she is not, after all, the heroine of the story - although I believe Caroline Bingley's reaction might be even more hilarious.

The snippet sounded like something out from SC. Cecily is kind of odd, isn't she? So unlike the other Fitzwilliams. At least at first glance, she looks naïve and simple, and yet there's something about her, something that makes you think there's more to her than meets the eye.

Or maybe I'm just projecting, I don't know. Either way, her comments are always so refreshing.

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[elizabeth_hoot]

Heeee! Lydia tried to make herself the heroine and dragged Darcy out of Hunsford into "Robinson Crusoe." But he was afraid of water, so it didn't work out. (And he and Elizabeth ended up falling in love while they practised for Hunsford, so - yes.) Caroline might be even more hilarious, though.

As for Cecily, I don't think you're projecting. She's... genuinely naive and good-hearted and all. And impulsive, and certainly not particularly bright (though not subnormal!). I think somebody described her as a cross of Lydia Bennet and Catherine Morland, which seems fairly accurate as far as it goes.