This is just bad writing.*

[bending_sickle]

Rules for Writing blogspot post.

There's a whole section on ff.net for Crossovers. That's bloody fantastic, until you realize that, of course, most of them are crap.

That's the thing with fanfiction.net. I used to read fics there until the ratio of crap to good fic toppled over. Not to mention the fact that I'd rather poke my eyes out than try to struggle through some of the horrendous formatting I've seen. (Paragraphs, people! Commas! Spelling!)

But then I think about how evadne_noel and her comic-writing friend used to write there, how the Firefly, Good Omens and Neverwhere sections were mostly chock-full of really good fics, and I'm almost tempted to wade through their archives again.

It's scary, is what it is.


Yesterday, I went to a few English-language bookstores, trying to find a really good book for the plane. I was hoping for some Koontz (particularly Odd Thomas, not the sequel, Forever Odd) but found nothing. Alright, I found some cool books, but none I'd want to read right now, which is my criteria for a plane-book. The books are

The Winter Rose - Donnell (Kit might like this one)
Scent for a Breath - Melissa P.
Curious Pursuits - M. Atwood
Sexing the Cherry - ?
The Private Memories and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - Hogg
Mountain Man Dance Moves - McSweeney (awesome book of lists)
Angle of Repose - Stegner
The Memory of Running - McCarty
Book of Sketches - Kerouac (especially "October 31 1952": gorgeous poem)
Querido Caín - García-Valiño
Bloodsucking Fiends - Moor
Mozart's Return to Prague - Mörike

also, there's my love of Elizabeth Bishop's poem with a line going somthing like, "linked by'and' and 'and'".


* Secret Window, Mort Rainey