A well-deserved self-mock, volume seventeen.

[sarcasticsra]

I am so bad about doing this regularly.

Comments

[celli_puzzle]

Oh, man. I'm not even familiar with this fandom, but hilarious nonetheless. Congratulations on...17 chapters of this! Haha.

I just took a peek into my past as well, and I have not the courage to post that tripe on LJ.

[sarcasticsra]

Haha, it's really not courage, so much as just wanting to share the ridiculousness and hilarity. =P

[celli_puzzle]

Oh, considering the absolute crap I've managed to produce without dying of dysentery, I think it's a form of courage. ;)

[manekikoneko]

So, my first thought was, I wish there was a recap of what was going on before now. And then I realized, wait, that wouldn't help at all! It might be more confusing if you tried fill in any history beyond 'Brad attempted to kill you, Laura killed someone' and cover that in the first few lines.

Two questions: first, how long, in actual days or weeks, did you spend writing this one story? And two, and this is a bit of a fancy question; I was recently reading about the whole Jane Austen controversy this past summer, and the opinion of linguists that the whole thing was blown out of proportion because the manuscripts were probably very early drafts and because the rules were more relaxed or entirely different in the early 1800s, particularly, many writers including Austen, used punctuation to denote the rhythm of speech* rather than according to more formal rules about fragments and embedding, whathaveyou. Which makes sense because punctuation is a formal construct; we don't, exactly, speak in commas and periods (or even spaces between

[sarcasticsra]

Just this one story, number 17? Probably a couple days. I wrote these stories pretty regularly. They didn't take me long. All the stories together? I'm not sure. I know I was 13 or so by the time I stopped, because I have the last one (though I'm still missing some in between) and my friend Shayna is just making an appearance. I didn't meet her 'til eighth grade. So I started them in seventh and was writing them until sometime into eighth. I probably slowed down considerably in regularity near the end, though.

I seem to be mostly using ellipses to indicate pauses, though there might be some of that 'using them as pauses' thing going on. Mostly, though, I think I just didn't really have a firm grasp on how to use commas. =P

(I have no problems with rule-breaking in order to reflect a certain style. My thought is that you need to know the rules before you break them, though. So it doesn't apply here.)

[gandolforf]

“Join the club.”

Hey, Brad, find your own lines.

But...whose line is it, anyway?

[sarcasticsra]

Badumtss!

[sunsetsinthewes]

I SAW THAT "YOUR FACE".

[sarcasticsra]

An homage to you, my fine friend.

[chocolate_frapp]

hehe

[sarcasticsra]

=P