I can has groovy box

[hobgoblinn]

I came home to a super obscurely groovy surprise tonight. willowgreen sent me a box of stuff from her stash of "obscure grooviness." Wee Hob and I were both delighted, he even though he's been under the weather for a couple of days with an odd spring fever (with actual fever. He had to come home from school yesterday, and he came in today and mostly slept tonight, with brief stints of soup eating and a shower.)

Anyway, thanks to willowgreen for your generosity. Now I have to come up with something equally groovy for snarkysneak.

But at the moment, bedtime I think. For those of you staying up later, I highly recommend the next chapter in Malora's continuing epic, Never Say Remember. Her dialogue is perfect, understated but full of meaning, and damned funny when it needs to be. She is the poster child for why people should finish a draft before posting anything-- this story is so tightly crafted and beautifully done, so unlike mine. Don't get me wrong, mine has its moments. But it wanders a lot, and I am seeing, reading it to Wee Hob the past couple of nights, how much could and should be cut. Ah well. Information for next time.

Comments

[whitestar-alpha.livejournal.com]

Hope weehob feels better soon.

I'm reading that fic too. It's great! I just wonder how long the story is going to go though? She doesn't update often :(

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I hope Wee Hob feels better soon!

On fic writing, I think for some people having a draft complete is helpful. My partner in crime and I have problems even if we have a draft because we have all sorts of epiphanies as we are polishing and fanged plot bunnies of doom attack from the ether conspiring to change the story so radically that the draft is useless. That, however, is our writing style. That is the drawback of having two abstract thinkers working together. In any case, I love your story as it is. I haven't noticed it wandering too terribly badly (if at all IMHO). It is sometimes in those wanderings that you get some of the best character development and sometimes some of the best dialogue.

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

I had an idea regarding the groovy package thing, if you haven't already sent it. You mentioned that you don't know me very well and it was going to be tricky. If you want, just send me stuff you find groovy and that way I'll learn about you and I could send you a box of stuff I find groovy for you to learn about me. If you don't like the stuff I send, you could always give it to someone else!