Two words...
Oct. 19th, 2003 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheart... autumn holidays! Yay! A whole week without schools stress, and - if I manage to get better until Thursday - even a one-day-trip to Vienna!
In honour of this wonderful fact, I've uploaded Isabeau's birthday present, in case chello won't let me access the Net in the next Age, due to their usual, three-hour-long system upgrade. Here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1565350
It's titled "Cold Comfort" (Edhellond people know it already), it's a one-shot (yes, I actually managed to write something short for a change, go figure), and - thank to Una - it isn't even grammatically insulting for native speakers.
Denethor shares a frightening discovery with an old friend.
My Star Trek beta checked back yesterday and asked for a new Alternate Voyager chapter, so I sent her the DS9 part, where Paris rescues Kim from the clutches of Quark. My regular flamer will certainly be back as soon as I post it and chastise me for using the original dialogue in my own story. I could delete her stupid comments, as she is anonymous, of course, but the other readers get so nicely agitated about them that I decided to leave the written proof of her (his?) stupidity for the following generations.
Still feeling like shit. *sighs* But I'll try to finish "Face of the Enemy" for Nerwen's birthday in the autumn holidays and finally write that highly dramatic (or so I hope) part from the next AU chapter where Gildor very nearly kills Aragorn in his righteous outrage. *rubs hand gleefully*
Time to go and stuff some more tea and aspirin into my head now.
In honour of this wonderful fact, I've uploaded Isabeau's birthday present, in case chello won't let me access the Net in the next Age, due to their usual, three-hour-long system upgrade. Here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1565350
It's titled "Cold Comfort" (Edhellond people know it already), it's a one-shot (yes, I actually managed to write something short for a change, go figure), and - thank to Una - it isn't even grammatically insulting for native speakers.
Denethor shares a frightening discovery with an old friend.
My Star Trek beta checked back yesterday and asked for a new Alternate Voyager chapter, so I sent her the DS9 part, where Paris rescues Kim from the clutches of Quark. My regular flamer will certainly be back as soon as I post it and chastise me for using the original dialogue in my own story. I could delete her stupid comments, as she is anonymous, of course, but the other readers get so nicely agitated about them that I decided to leave the written proof of her (his?) stupidity for the following generations.
Still feeling like shit. *sighs* But I'll try to finish "Face of the Enemy" for Nerwen's birthday in the autumn holidays and finally write that highly dramatic (or so I hope) part from the next AU chapter where Gildor very nearly kills Aragorn in his righteous outrage. *rubs hand gleefully*
Time to go and stuff some more tea and aspirin into my head now.
Re: Two words
Date: 2003-10-19 01:20 pm (UTC)I hope you'll start to feel better soon. Murphy's Law - whatever is going to happen will happen at the worst possible time - practically guarantees that one will be sick during the holidays :)
As for your Trek reviewer: I think there's a legitimate creative use for quoting text in new contexts, as it puts a different spin on things and challenges the original. Have you ever read a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, called 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote'? It's about a scholar who sets himself the project of rewriting 'Don Quixote' - word for word. And the narrator of the story goes into ecstacy about how phrases from 'Don Quixote' mean much, much more when written by Menard, in his 20th-century environment, than they did when written by Cervantes...
It seems that you have some great writing projects in progress. I hope that you'll be returning to Mirkwood soon, though - Lady Ithilwen is still sitting in the glade, waiting for Legolas to show up and get betrothed to her!
Gemma
Re: Two words
Date: 2003-10-19 01:50 pm (UTC)I haven't read the story you mentioned, but it sounds interesting. :)
And yes, I'll be returning to Mirkwood, eventually. As soon as I figure out how to bring Legolas and those Giant Spiders into interaction.