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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 ...

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[theodoraleft.livejournal.com]

There is a lone passage in present tense in DH Lawrence's "The Rainbow" describing Lydia's wedding, which, we were all told at school and dutifully regurgitated in our A-levels, was to heighten the tension of the scene. Didn't work for me then, and I re-read it just now, and am still not impressed. I have a vague recollection of Agatha Christie using the device with more success in the opening passage of ABC murders(?) Instinctively, I would have said I disliked it, until reading some of Hollycomb's work, and also the beautifully atmospheric "Things that Change".