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[rose_griffes]

Best Buy is having a sale this week. "Batman Begins" and "The Corpse Bride" are both marked down to $7.50, and a few others as well. Yay, I have new DVD's to watch!

Just slept through watched the news. George Stephanopoulous still looks like a dark-haired Ken doll. I think he's made a pact with the devil to have eternal youth.

pataka02 has her second fic(let) done. It's here and it's Kara/Leoben, post-Maelstrom. That brings me to my next link. Generally speaking I don't worry about the ideas behind the stories I've written. This describes how I feel. I love my ideas, even if no one else does, and sometimes I have no choice about them. Once Cally decided she was a fairy-tale princess I couldn't persuade her otherwise, for example. Instead I worry about how I write. I feel like I'm very utilitarian. That isn't always bad, but sometimes I wish I could write with more poetry. I had a point here--oh yeah, that I love pataka02's writing style. As "beta-reader" of her two stories so far mostly I just get to say "Stop worrying so much," and "Trust your instincts" rather than trying to fix choppy sentences and eliminate word repetition (two problems I have far too often).

Third link: speaking of Kara/Leoben, the massive Kara/Leoben fic round-up is here on trial_by_water, thanks to lunar47. I've read most of them. (A few I haven't read 'cause I try to stay away from porn of either variety.) If you know of any that were missed, go put them in the comments.

Currently eating an omelet, wishing I had fresh tomatoes to put on it. I never used to buy tomatoes at the grocery store, but a few of those vine-ripened cherry tomatoes that are ridiculously overpriced do, in fact, taste like tomatoes. Sadly I don't have any right now.

Also just turned on tv to catch this line on "Ugly Betty": dorkus interruptus. Hee!

eta: Brilliant Spider-Man 3 parody here.

Comments

[natalexx.livejournal.com]

LOVE the Spider-Man 3 parody--thanks for the link!

BUTLER: Harry, your father killed himself. Sorry I didn't tell you two movies ago.

Ah, so true. *g*

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I just read it again, heh.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Hmm . . . I like your writing very much. I just reread some to try to pick out why I like it but it’s impossible. Prophecy was just so amazing. I love your ideas! There are several hints in Prophecy about the earth you created with the Colonials that still intrigue me.

As for your writing lacking poetry, I don’t think so. I think I know what you mean. I was reading some fiction the other day and some writers have this flair for turning a phrase, it’s amazing. Your poetry is in the feelings you evoke with your words. Feelings in Prophecy of newness, love, and something vaguely shocking, yet okay about Kara and Leoben. The feelings of safety and relief and comradeship in the ficlet you wrote for me. It’s hard to explain but the emotions sort of waft up through the words and sift into one’s brain. At least for me. It’s both subtle and skillful.

Dude, you could write in the Prophecy world any day of the week and I’d be glued to every word. Just admiring the forsythias. ;)

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

I was reading some fiction the other day and some writers have this flair for turning a phrase, it’s amazing.

Yeah, I think that's part of what I wish for.

It’s hard to explain but the emotions sort of waft up through the words and sift into one’s brain. At least for me. It’s both subtle and skillful.

*sniff* Oh, that's such a wonderful compliment. Even with doubts about what I write I still have a certain vanity about it--heck, I made this LJ partly because I knew I'd want to post "Prophecy" somewhere public when I finished it. So I wasn't feeling woeful about my writing, I just feel the need to improve.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Glad you're not feeling woeful! And I'm glad you created this journal partly to post fic. Yay!

Each writer has their own style and gifts. Hope they'll be more fic from you soon. I miss Leoben.

[pataka02.livejournal.com]

Ummm... I hate to break it to you, but your writing? Rocks. Seriously, I wish I could write like you, with your elegant and economical prose, and the way you just get characterization... and your plots? Are also awesome. I have a hate/kind of like relationship with the way I write, where often I think it's too convoluted and flowery and weird... but I love your writing, so no badmouthing your style. Your voice is awesome, and I'm one of your biggest fans...

but thank you for advertising my story, mainly because it shows that you're an awesome beta who always makes sure my verb tenses agree. Stupid verb tenses! They're my Achilles heel, both in English and, oddly enough, Spanish, since I was trying to remember my future tense the other day and couldn't... so the woman I was talking to (who only speaks Spanish) was amused at my pitiful attempts.

Sigh. Must.. study... more.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

I posted a reply to this a few days ago and I just now noticed that LJ must have eaten it. Did you ever see an e-mail saying I sent a reply? Stupid LJ.

The brief version: 1) let's form a mutual writing fanclub 'cause I like your "flowery" writing, so there. 2) The Spanish teachers I had in Ecuador and Mexico told me that people rarely use future tense when speaking--they use ir + a + infinitive. (y'know... like "voy a nadar este fin de semana) So don't worry about all that conjugation. (and then I wrote something about me being a know-it-all, since I couldn't resist explaining all my lovely knowledge, which led to me making this icon. *points*)

[pataka02.livejournal.com]

Umm, I LOVE the icon. Absolute perfection.

And no, I never got an email or a reply or whatever, which worried me because you're always so good with that and I was like... oh no, she's offended that I like her writing which makes no sense in retrospect (or any 'spect).

And I'm glad about the verb tenses because I normally do use the ir a + infinitive, but I'm annoyed that approx. 10 years of studying spanish made me forget the complete proper conjugation. All those wasted brain cells.

And yay for know-it-alls!

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Ooh, can I join the mutual writing fan club too? Though I'd have to actually write something and actually post it, I guess. Well, I could just be a fan, right?

The truth is this reply is mostly so I could use this icon. I won't keep it long but it fits here. She's grown so much.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Ooh, can I join the mutual writing fan club too?

Too late, we've already ordered our matching tee-shirts and no one else can be as cool as us. (insert mean girl laugh)

Heh. Sorry, sudden flashback to elementary days (though usually I was the one being left out of whatever club...) But if you ever want someone to yell at you to finish writing something, I'm now very proficient at using the capslock button while typing "motivational" comments.

I really like Hermione in the books. I'm not quite as fond of her in the movie versions, but it's hard to have the same depth of character in a two or three hour movie as in a 500-page book. (yay Hermione icons!)