This post that was linked to via daily_snitch got me thinking about how damaging the distracting influences of the internet and fandoms are on writers of original fiction. It's nothing I didn't know before, but it was well articulated ( Read more... )

When we took Addy out of the tank to give her the next shot we noticed how horribly sore she was under that harness. I'd sort of known she was sore already, but seeing it close-up like that... She looks like she was in a motorcycle accident. Especially across her peduncle, she's just raw. >_< It made me ill to see, actually. So Mom and I took ( Read more... )

I was over at Fiction Alley Park again, seeing what the fans there had to say about the latest JKR chat. I can't believe how whiny some people can be! "Waah, I don't like Ron's middle name! Snivel, she says Draco is an unsympathetic jerk(eventhoughhe'ssupposedtobe)! Boo hoo, she doesn't have the ages and birthdates of every one of her 100+ ( Read more... )

Anybody read that dragon novel Eragon? I thought it looked fairly good but I wasn't going to shell out the shaboozies for the hardcover ( Read more... )

Typos can be so hilarious... I was just writing a bit of a creative drabble with a Redwallish bent and the following sentence came out:

"The moon had waxed and wanged eight times since..."

o_0 Wanged, hmm? LMAO!

Okay, so I finally got around to posting the Scrooge and Goldie fic I wrote a couple years ago. It took me forever to write the darn thing and then I was too shy to post it so it sat on my hard drive for ages. Today I finally got the darn thing formatted and uploaded.

Ye Olde LinkIt's not going to mean a whole lot if you haven't read the ( Read more... )

Hurricane Isabel is making landfall in North Carolina today. Some INCREDIBLE video on TV. Brian Williams was out in the wind on MSNBC and he called over Mike Seidel from the Weather Channel to use his handheld anemometer. The wind was so strong Seidel started to blow away, so Williams grabbed onto him like in a big hug, but it was no use--they ( Read more... )

Browsing fanfiction.net makes me realize that I *am* a good writer.

Browsing Deviantart or Elfwood makes me realize I'm a really mediocre artist.

Oh well, can't have it all, I suppose.

I went to check my Yahoo mail for the first time day and I only had one message in my Inbox. I had eleven messages in my Bulk (read: spam) folder. I pouted, thinking, aww, only one real message today. I went into my Inbox and found...an ad from MacAfee for spam killer software! LMAO ( Read more... )

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