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Update on life in general
Mar. 17th, 2004 04:49 pmAm at work, in mental pain from dealing with the hnngggh web developers. Will this never end? Luckily it's only a small part of my job, but nevertheless the problems seem insurmountable at times. But we were given chocolate and fruit pastilles by nice people, so the sugar rush is helping.
Just as a note, it's a bad idea to insert large quoted chunks of a pro novel into your own fanfic, because not only does it stop the flow of the story like a brick wall across a motorway, but it might alert the reader to the fact that they could be reading something else, something better. But then it might work the other way round and you'd just be relieved you weren't reading Wuthering Heights (the novel in question) and having to work out again who the hell everyone was, and who were they related to again? But generally I can't help thinking it's a tactical mistake.
We watched Best in Show last night and laughed a lot, which was good because Brokeback Mountain is a classic Annie Proulx genre novel (short story, rather), and that genre is MISERY. Beautifully written and sometimes quite funny misery, but misery all the same. It'll be fascinating to see how they've filmed it - her prose is very visual and ideas for scenes spring easily to mind - I hope they keep the ending as it is in the story.
I haven't forgotten your snippets, dear requesters, I just keep getting distracted by real life - they will be coming along, I promise. And furthermore, if an angel and demon did just happen to have sex and one of them got pregnant, what would the resulting child be, exactly? I suppose, genetically, it would be angel, if demons started out as angels.
Just as a note, it's a bad idea to insert large quoted chunks of a pro novel into your own fanfic, because not only does it stop the flow of the story like a brick wall across a motorway, but it might alert the reader to the fact that they could be reading something else, something better. But then it might work the other way round and you'd just be relieved you weren't reading Wuthering Heights (the novel in question) and having to work out again who the hell everyone was, and who were they related to again? But generally I can't help thinking it's a tactical mistake.
We watched Best in Show last night and laughed a lot, which was good because Brokeback Mountain is a classic Annie Proulx genre novel (short story, rather), and that genre is MISERY. Beautifully written and sometimes quite funny misery, but misery all the same. It'll be fascinating to see how they've filmed it - her prose is very visual and ideas for scenes spring easily to mind - I hope they keep the ending as it is in the story.
I haven't forgotten your snippets, dear requesters, I just keep getting distracted by real life - they will be coming along, I promise. And furthermore, if an angel and demon did just happen to have sex and one of them got pregnant, what would the resulting child be, exactly? I suppose, genetically, it would be angel, if demons started out as angels.