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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

[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.