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[blamebrampton]

[Poll #1633332]In other news, HAPPY BIRTHDAY samena  and eanelinea77 ! May your days be excellent and filled with visits from the gift fairies and cake pixies!

And if anyone else out there is out of their tiny little minds with overwork: Agatha Christie, complex geometry, red lip gloss and slightly complicated knitting are all decent stopgaps until your brain has time to recover. One week, and I will be off having an adventure with no one expecting me to rescue anyone else's demented prose! If I am tremendously dilligent, I can even get a good lot of writing done and be a step closer to never editing again.

Well, never editing anything not written by friends or interesting fandom people, at any rate ...

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I always think I loathe it, but there have been several fics and more novels that I have really quite enjoyed, and in a number of those cases not even noticed the tense until afterwards.

Sadly, I think I loathe it because more often the faults of the form are obvious, as you say.

And we are alike in our hobbies, but not the timing: work has been a constant boil of rescuing other people from disaster of late, and long hours spent doing so, with the result that when I come home I can only manage Miss Marple, M. Poirot, and DPNs. Oh, and a walk, the cats and Mr B, with the odd baked pudding, but that is really it!

[thenotoriousso4.livejournal.com]

I have yet to read a present tense story that hasn't affected me, but who knows, maybe I'm reading the wrong stories. I've just gotten stuck in my ways as I've gotten older. Anymore it's very hard for me to give something new (in literature, anyway) a try.

Lol, I try to keep it until after work, but after days and days and fucking days of staring at this same excel spreadsheet I just couldn't take it anymore.

Excel is really the work of the devil. I have finally been convinced.