Posted in General on Mar 30th, 2006
That one person’s secret shameful fic desire is the next’s “Oh, I wrote that one!”
I was looking over the posts on entrenous88’s what’s your secret shameful fic desire thread, and I don’t think there’s one single story idea there that hasn’t already been written by somebody, somewhere. Someone even posted a SSFD that was […]
Posted in General on Mar 30th, 2006
I ended up taking yesterday off and today as well, even though I probably could have dragged my sniffly carcass in to work. Because i felt guilty about staying home whilts still technically mobile, I ended up doing dishes and laundry and yard work instead of staying in bed. Although staying in bed […]
Posted in General on Mar 29th, 2006
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Posted in General on Mar 27th, 2006
Blarg. The cold is finally hitting. Of course, now it will hit with sufficient force to make me feel icky, but not enough to justify taking a day or two off. (kicks germs) Maybe I’ll take a day or two off anyway. Barring the bonus days we got at Christmas, […]
Can enyone remember offhand an episode of AtS that gives us a decent shot of Angel’s room in the Hyperion? I’n thinking there has to be one in season 2 or 3, but so far all the epiosdes I’ve checked screencaps for have had nothing but lobby and office shots.
Kathy’s been sick for the last couple of days, and I didn’t feel like cooking tonight, so since I had to make a soda run anyway, I picked up some pork ribs and spinach salad at the deli counter. Also chocolate cake, because cake is a well-known cure for the creeping jeebies, or whatever […]
Posted in General on Mar 22nd, 2006
On the portion of my flist that I read today, there were nigh on half a dozen posts or comments from people who were pondering the idea of defriending people who had friended people they were at odds with.
Unless I am specifically requested otherwise, I friend everyone who friends me. I have […]
Posted in General on Mar 21st, 2006
Sherri Tepper is one of those authors I admire and abhor at once; her writing is wonderful, her worlds are stunningly imagined, her characters are always engaging, and she brings up Big Interesting Questions. At the same time, she has a disturbing habit of stacking the deck in her plots, so that alternatives to […]
Posted in General on Mar 20th, 2006
The following story titles are now OFF LIMITS:
Possession
Repossession
Reclamation
Restoration
And anything else that makes it sound like one or more of the characters is either a slightly damaged piece of furniture or a back forty in need of a rototiller.
Thank you.
Posted in General on Mar 19th, 2006
In a lot of ways I’m a writing snob. I think that there are standards. I think that these standards change and evolve over time, and that they are to some degree subjective. But I do think that there are standards, that one can say that Story A has captured the characters […]
