Come write with me...

Oh dear oh dear, I think I've just accidentally-on-purpose hooked jan-u-wine into writing for Doctor Who. *happy bouncing* And being jan, her first drabble (for Susan in exile) was just *lovely*!

There's something all sparkles and happy rainbow-bits when an old friend joins in.

Speaking of writing, there's a meme going around in which we are to post snippets of all the unfinished works we have in our fandom writings, so here it is snagged from eponymous_rose and stunt_muppet:

When you see this, post a brief snippet of all your fannish works-in-progress.

( These could take a long, long time - I am very scattered! )

And then there's three others! Except they're sadly still in outline form for the most part - sigh... and I often feel I only write ever so slowly.

Now it is a sunny, cool day and I am going out for a much-needed walk - if someone could invent a way to write and walk at the same time I'd be skinny as a rail, I swear.

Classics R Good

Just thinking on how pleased I am that my three teens are reading at this time
Pride and Prejudice, (with plans for Sense and Sensibility)
The Three Musketeers (he just finished the Count of Monte Cristo), and
The Scarlet Pimpernel (she's going for 'The Elusive Pimpernel' next)

There's something that just fluffs my feathers about that. I grew up with an emphasis on books being classics 'for a reason' and usually being well worth a read, and they have rarely been disappointments.

A boy at my son's school sniffed at Musketeers and told him if he wanted to read a "real hard book" he should be reading Twilight - proof being when he held up his copy it was 'thicker' than Dumas' masterpiece. Heh. Of course, the effort to point out little details like size of type and width of margins was pushed aside. Oh well. I was pleased to find that class starting in on Kipling's Captains Courageous next - it has some gnarly, intense moments in it but I think those boys might enjoy a taste of a good, gritty sea story if they've been reading vampire fluff.