variously literary

[extemporanea]

An odd assortment of writing sorts of things lately:

• My latest Micfic is up; this fortnight's theme is "Ghosts". I ended up, for no adequately defined reason, being post-colonial. Go figure.
  
• I just read Ursula Vernon's Dragonbreath, which is a semi-graphic novel aimed at approximately eight-year-olds. It's charming, amusing, latently subversive

Comments

[xavierxalfonso]

Your Twilight sentence is a mini-masterpiece; thanks for sharing.

And congratulations on getting the paper done.

At the risk of being annoying, doesn't referencing software take care of the Chicago Footnote style for you?

[extemporanea]

Referencing software would almost certainly take care of the Chicago style if I actually used referencing software... Being as how I only write about one paper a year, I've never felt an urgent need to acquaint myself with such a programme. But I probably should.

Thank you for "mini-masterpiece." I preen.

Re: I hear you

[extemporanea]

How odd. Although not really, when you consider the fatal attraction of academics towards bloody-minded individuality. I dream of the day when the revolution comes and a benign dictator makes everyone in the whole world ever use the same style. On pain of flogging. I'd even live with Chicago footnotes if everyone else had to. One standard style is worth a little pain.

I think there's a core of my psyche which believes that footnotes should be reserved for the use of Terry Pratchett.