The Gods of Fandom have decreed that I raise a glass in their honour tonight.

[changeling]

Firstly, a heartbreaking Remus-centric post-OOTP fic by copperbadge, which features a brief vaguely Remus/Moody moment. Don't read it for that. Read it on its own merits.

Secondly, a terribly sad and beautiful post-Good Omens fic, that is a letter from Crowley to Aziraphale. Much better done than you would expect. Written by eternalkismet for the contrelamontre challenge "This is not the worst moment of my life."

Finally, an intriguing Alternate Universe LOTR Real Person Slash fic that features vampires. It is written by airgiodslv, and I am bewitched and waiting for the next part.


Also, someone on my friends' friends list shewed me this divertisement wherein Anne Rice claims she does not need to be edited. May it amuse you as it did me. I should mention the person's name who linked it, but I am afraid I cannot recover the post.


I have decided that I love violin concertos. Does anyone want to point me in the direction of their favourites?

Comments

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Anne Rice. She's wanktastic.
That sounds odd . . . I mean she's extremely pretentious for someone who's basically writing "Erotic Blood Poetry" (lifted from Risus) style novels.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Well, precisely.

[rhakylia.livejournal.com]

try out...

Barber: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: Presto in moto perpetuo.

and this one's not a concerto but I think you'll like it still.

Ravel: String quartet in F major: Assez vif: Tres Rythme

(i lost the accents on the e's there :()

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I'll look them up.

[rhakylia.livejournal.com]

they aren't my favourites...but they're the ones I've listened to most recently and thus they're in my head.

[inblackink.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

That Anne Rice article explains *so much* of what's wrong with her writing... No wonder she's become such a hack that I prefer fanfic to her own writing at this point... *sigh* Absolute power...

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Look, I'm pretty careful about editing my own stuff, so I don't use a beta for the stuff I publish on the web. Were I to actually publish anything properly, however...

Besides all that, I love it when I get feedback. Sometimes you make glaring mistakes, and editing fixes that.

Besides the fact that I usually edit as I go, asking my friends if I'm not sure about something.

I just can't imagine the sort of ego that thinks its outpourings don't need to be edited. *rolls eyes* What a conceit.

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

. . .

On the one hand? I do all my writing on a computer. All of it. So until I went back and reread properly, I was thinking "I don't have 'drafts' either" because I tend not to in physical form, due to the completely fluid nature of writing on a computer.

But to think you necessarily got it right the first time by that process would give you, at the very least, a lot of good beginnings with lesser endings.

That woman makes my head hurt.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I don't do *all* my work on a computer, as I'm not always by a computer when I get ideas. Nor am I always in the mood for computer writing, and I don't have a laptop I can take with me into the bath.

However.

I don't feel like I have drafts, due to the fluid nature etc as mentioned above. Even when I'm handwriting, I don't tend to finish things without typing it up onto the computer, and writing the next bit in there and so forth. This can mean a bugger of a headache when I'm trying to work out where the most recent version is... especially when I was using a palm based computer during NaNo the last couple of years.

The woman needs a sharp slap. And a reality check.

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

If I can't get to a computer immediately, I go into half-mode, which is where I retreat into my head with the idea until I can get to my computer and then I write it. The only exception tends to be poems and the occasional snippet I know I'll lose - those end up on napkins, order cards, scrap paper, whatever, but they're never entire scenes if they're prose. At home I only had the one computer, and here I only have my laptop, so it works for me. I can't handwrite fast enough to keep up with my thoughts but I can type that fast, especially if I'm into the flow.

Is it just me, or do a lot of the mediocre ones need a sharp slap? I mean, I look at her and her arrogance and her know-it-all attitude and the way she treats her fans, and Lackey, and others of that sort of level, and then I look at authors like Pratchett and Kay and Gaiman, who are six times the writers and six times (apparently) nicer as people and I go " . . .how does this work?"

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or do a lot of the mediocre ones need a sharp slap?

Yes. It's like the pride feeds back into the writing and causes it to be not-good. Which is probably at least partly the case. *is suddenly afraid of becoming too big for my boots*

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

That's what my Dad is for. *L* I love him, but it's very, very difficult for him to give unequivocal praise of anything, even for his daughters, so he'll generally give me ego a sharp poke over something.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*nods* My parents don't give me unequivocal praise, but they don't break me down overly much either. But then, I'm so good at doing that all by myself. ^_^

violin concertos

[lynsis.livejournal.com]

Check out Mendelssohn's concerto. Especially the first movement. Get a Menuhin recording if you can, or else I like David Oistrach's interpretation.

:)

Re: violin concertos

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Will do. Thanks :)