(...I shall just have to content myself with that hypothetical dinner party in which Mary blindsides Holmes with a pair of bluestockings who can definitely keep up with him, and who aren't terribly overawed by him, either. Also, a second confirmed bachelor, details to be decided, is also in attendance, and Holmes may or may not get himself into a very restrained snit that Mary and/or Watson is trying to set him up with this random bloke instead of doing the decent thing and letting him pine over Watson in peace. HIJINKS ENSUE.) I'm kind of enjoying this 'hypothetical dinner party' too now ^___^
It's a beautiful, beautiful fic - I'm so glad you stuck with it. And once again I am gobsmacked by how much thought and research you put into it. You're such an exceptional writer.
PS *hyperventilates about people writing in library books*
(But yes, it had to be done - both by you and the previous annotator ^_^)
I feel like people frame my researching my stories as... a virtuous thing I do? But in most cases it's just a technique for getting and keeping my flibbertigibbet brain in harness. My best method for encouraging inspiration is to kill time with possibly-relevant reading, waiting until something catches my attention. And my best method for having a productive writing session is to back-burner the story between whiles, which is more likely to happen if I can keep my brain vaguely tethered to the topic instead of letting it dart off after whatever distracting shiny it sees while I'm going about my life. Thus my habit of deliberately giving my brain lots of vaguely on-topic things to read during the writing period.
That these things sometimes result in a "well-researched" story is a happy side-effect, although it doesn't always work out that way. Almost nothing of the "keep my brain on-topic" reading from Nostoi worked its way into the final draft. (Possibly because I didn't realize what motifs I would be trying to develop until it was
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Yeah, I did take one look and say to myself 'oh, it's sang and the aliens from Planet No One Has That Much Empathy.' But I enjoyed it as I did So Keen a Sympathy and Setting the Sail. And now I shall re-christen myself The Occasional Completist.
'oh, it's sang and the aliens from Planet No One Has That Much Empathy.' Okay, that made me laugh. :-D
If you enjoy that appellation, then you are welcome to it! Otherwise, I encourage you to designate yourself as a friend, and if that doesn't work for you either, I point you to the part where I implied that I was wrong.
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It's a beautiful, beautiful fic - I'm so glad you stuck with it. And once again I am gobsmacked by how much thought and research you put into it. You're such an exceptional writer.
PS *hyperventilates about people writing in library books*
(But yes, it had to be done - both by you and the previous annotator ^_^)
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That these things sometimes result in a "well-researched" story is a happy side-effect, although it doesn't always work out that way. Almost nothing of the "keep my brain on-topic" reading from Nostoi worked its way into the final draft. (Possibly because I didn't realize what motifs I would be trying to develop until it was ( ... )
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If you enjoy that appellation, then you are welcome to it! Otherwise, I encourage you to designate yourself as a friend, and if that doesn't work for you either, I point you to the part where I implied that I was wrong.
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