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[vivien]

My Best Friend is boniblithe

Our 11 common interests are: buffy the vampire slayer, fanfic, fantasy, good omens, harry potter, history, j.r.r. tolkien, lex luthor, severus snape, smallville, tom riddle

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Hee, how cool!

Due to boniblithe's Feedback Challenge, I've read some really good Buffy stories bu auhtor's I didn't know much about. I'm looking forward to reading a bit more Harry Potter, as well. Today might need to be a reading day, instead of a writing day, like I had planned.

I'd been gnashing my teeth, avoiding my computer after throwing up my hands in disgust earlier, and seriously considering stopping writing forever, when I read this advice on Neil Gaiman's blog:

Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong, too scared to do anything.

Thanks, Neil! I so needed to hear that. Okay, back to altering your characters to fit my artistic needs! Seriously, I think I'm going to put the story I had in mind on hold for a bit, and work on some shorter ideas. And stop freaking out, for crying out loud!

I also might do some reading - Books on order came in from the library and I have 4 Terry Pratchetts (including the new Wee Free Men one!)and 2 non fiction books on Joan of Arc (For story research, she said, cackling maniacally.) Plus I have the complete Blackadder collection on DVD. I love the library.

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[semaphore27.livejournal.com]

Yay, for Neil's advice! He is wise and should be listened to. The other bit of advice I always cling to is "Do everything with reckless abandon." If nothing else, it always makes life interesting. :-)