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Birthdays and fanfic

Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:57:29 GMT

So I decided to take the day off yesterday for my birthday. It was a nice, peaceful day, spent reading, writing a little fanfic, watching a movie, and going out to lunch with my daughter.

I'm enrolled in the Dramionelove fest again this year. I have an outline, but inspiration hasn't struck yet ... Time to kick myself into high gear so I can make the deadline.

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Hello from the other side

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 20:23:13 GMT

Just in case Livejournal's server moves to Russia, becomes sentient and threatens to delete my curated collection of M/M/F Harry Potter fanfic, I have this backup account on Dreamwidth.

счастливого Нового года!

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Ambient sounds

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:44:52 GMT

I want to write, but I just can't hear Their Voices.

On reddit recently, writers and students shared their favorite websites for producing ambient sounds. Here are some of my favorites:
( Rain, rain, rain )

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It's not Halloween until someone scares the sh*t out of you

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:52:05 GMT

It's two days before Halloween, yet we haven't done any decorating yet. Can't think why not. Last year, we put up scads of cobwebs and then installed a mini-stereo in the bushes to play sound effects. The whole thing made us fairly popular except with the toddlers in their fruit and flower costumes.

So, we have a decision ahead of us, and there's not much time. Do we do no decorating ... put up a few things in the spirit of the season ... or go all out and risk traumatizing the little sunflowers and pumpkins?

Tonight we visited a haunted house in town, and my voice hurts from all the screaming. It's run by a nonprofit, and gets bigger and more elaborate every year. They add more features all the time. Now we have a train ride and some carnival attractions. They hired actors in addition to our stalwart high school-aged volunteers. And there were three separate attractions - a haunted corn "maize," an old west saloon, and a sort of creepy, zombie circus side show.

And my gosh, they were scary. It's all the people, see. So many of them! Some run up and shriek at you; others just sit in a corner and gibber. And then there are the quiet ones who sidle up behind you, and what with the noise and fog, you don't know they're there until they're literally breathing down your neck. By the last house, my synapses were misfiring and I was no longer in control of my major muscle groups.

And that's when the clowns came.

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How wide are your dreams?

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:29:03 GMT

dreamWIDTH lets you dream as wide as you like. Hey, that should be their slogan!

Hello, just staking a claim here on dW, similar to the bold manner in which our forebears staked their claim to acreage in the New West.

Usually, though, I may be found on lj under this same username.

Take care!

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