On Jul 15, 6:51 pm, "Laurie G."
winternet.com> wrote:> E. Liddell wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:50:32 -0700, spam wrote:
>
>>> On Jul 14, 10:09 am, "E. Liddell" wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:04:00 -0700, spam wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 13, 8:06 am, "E. Liddell"
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Incidentally, I just learned how to make fudge last Christmas. Easy
>>>>> (the recipe I used, anyway), though messy. And there is never enough.
>>>>> *nods nods*
>>>> The stuff's just about solid sugar, though, isn't it? Bad
>>>> enough that I make and consume quantities of home-made ice cream at
>>>> irregular intervals--I hate to think what regular access to fudge would
>>>> do to me.
>>> In a way, the solid sugar is the saving grace... sure it's lovely, but
>>> you risk severe burns making it. :P (Hot sugar is *nasty*).
>
>> Yeah, I remember what happened with that one lot of hot fudge sauce (not
>> quite solid sugar, but still nasty enough).
>
>>> So it
>>> dissuades you from making it too often.
>
> Wow. My recipe involves chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk.
> It's never been as hazardous as what you're describing.
The only thing really hazardous about it is that I am clumsy and have
a poor attention span, and will do stupid stuff like, "Ooh, I can lick
the spoon!" when licking the spoon right out of a pot of fudge is a
bad idea.
The recipe I use is on the back of a marshmallow fluff jar (I asked my
grandmother for her coveted recipe and turns out that's what it was)--
IIRC, chocolate chips, condensed milk, fluff, and sugar.
It's easy, but I'll still manage to spill the hot sweet stuff on me.
>>>>>> E. Liddell, and her chapter-and-a-half of potential novel.
>>>>> Oooh! Yay for writing.
>>>> It would help if I ever got anywhere with it. Fan fiction I seem to be
>>>> able to finish, but my original work always peters out (unless it's
>>>> short, bizarre yaoi erotica).
>>> Hey, there's a place for that too. ^^
>
>> Which grows smaller as the work grows more bizarre. I wish I could figure
>> out why my Muse loves weird bondage scenarios so much. Is he trying to
>> tell me I'm repressed?
>
> Maybe it's nothing about you but entirely about him.
My muse is Terpsichore, because the muses associated with writing and
poetry were too busy to bother with me. So I tend to want to get up
and boogie when I have an idea for a story.
> I have been finding energy and interest for working on my fanfics from a
> very unexpected direction. I just got a new machine, which has Vista,
> Office 2007 and a different directory structure than the old machine.
> The directory difference is purely a quirk of my own, not the fault of
> the PC. Which ends up meaning I've been having to open up every one of
> my unfinished pieces and make sure they're structurally sound. After
> which I begin re-reading them. After which, I begin working on them.
> This is just accelerating since I finished the last novels being read
> and took them back to the library.
I briefly found similar inspiration when I just wanted clean off my
hard drive of old stuff and was opening things to remember what they
were.
>>> I did finally finish that R.O.D fic I was working on awhile ago. If more
>>> of my beta readers would get back to me, that would be good. *wonders if
>>> Milo is reading and if she would want to look at it again, now that it's
>>> finished*
>
> *jumps waves* I'm here! And I'd love to beta read again. It's great to
> hear that you finished it. I hope I can follow your example now.
Yay! Thanks!
A bunch of people at the livejournal read or die community volunteered
to beta but were antsy about giving me their email address, so I have
it handily uploaded at my Website for you to download at your leisure:
http://www.angelfire.com/id/deathquaker/rod/beta.html
>> I finally finished watching ROD the TV a couple of months back. Pretty
>> good, although somehow not quite how I expected it to end.
I like the denouement, but the climax itself is too talky.
>> (I'm currently in the middle of experimenting with the current season's
>> new anime offerings. Finally, another season of Slayers!)
Yes! I am excited about that. Of course, the old question rears its
head: will Amelia and Naga ever appear on screen at the same time? :)
DQ
