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rose_griffes) wrote2007-05-17 07:11 pm
rose_griffes) wrote2007-05-17 07:11 pm
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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!
Justslept 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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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*)
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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!
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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.
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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!)