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oh hai so I'm actually doing a writer's block wat



It's a contest between two.

 

"Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

-Anna Karenina

It's a statement that I find rather intriguing, it reflects a fascination with the morbid, and something I personally find reflected in my writing habits. It's just so much easier to write unhappy things because there's so many directions one can go with it and so many vague possibilities around the corner, which at the best, can merely end bittersweet. Happy things, while, they can be fun in their own way, generally end with "and they lived happily ever after, The End." And that's nice and all. But misery loves company and I love misery for company. At least when I'm writing. Misery can leave me alone when I'm off doing work.

 

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife."

-Pride and Prejudice

To be honest? I just find this line absolutely hilarious. I mean. It's a great example of Austen's social commentary of the times, and it just exudes humor and wit. It's a line that never fails to make me smile and what keeps bringing me back to my now battered and dog-eared little copy. I almost regret giving said copy to a young friend I'm kind of sort of mentoring aaaaa but she should know this wonderful work :V
 


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Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] syntheticpoetic !

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
6. Tag five people.


Hmm. I pick that one book that I carried with me to my dorm room and is so just sitting right there in my bookbag unlike my other books which are on that musty old shelf thing.

"... 'After dinner, the two young men go into their host's study, and write a letter to the unknown fair one. They compose an ardent epistle, a declaration in fact, and they carry the letter up-stairs themselves, so as to elucidate whatever might appear not perfectly intelligible in the letter.'

'Why are you telling me these horrible stories? Well?'

'They ring. A maid-servant opens the door, they hand her the letter, and assure the maid that they're both so in love that they'll die on the spot at the door. The maid, stupefied, carries in their messages. All at once, a gentleman appears with whiskers like sausages, as red as a lobster, announces that there is no one living in that flat except his wife, and sends them both about their buisness.''"


-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part Two, Chapter V.

Gotta love gossip. :B I tag the first five people to respond to this post.

Also!

Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] atorasu !


Give me two RP characters (one I play, one you play) and I'll write a drabble about them. Keywords/prompts are allowed.

list of characters is here.
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It's bad enough that I've seeekretly harbored a 5D's x Pride and Prejudice crossover for months that went and a'sploded in my fais last week resultling in me harboring several pictures of Yuusei in a bonnet that are awaiting the time my dad brings my scanner to my dorm room. But now I'm trying to cross it over with a children's classic-The Secret Garden.

If you honestly have no clue what I'm talking about (and you're in America, I don't know how much foreign exposure it's gotten) then you've probably lived under a rock all your life or just don't like reading books. I'll give a brief summary to those who don't know or need a quick refresher.

 

Cut for long book summary and short character list )
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No seriously. Shoot me.

This came to  me after reading Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for the umpteenth time. Because for some reason, that book never gets old for me, even though I picked it up in sixth grade six years ago. God I am such a nerd.

For some reason, I started putting characters from Eyeshield 21 into the story. I am so sorry...no not really. Haha.

You probably might want a quick summary of the book before I do it though. I'm not entirely sure if it's a popular book, considering it is apparently on my AP Lit Reading List, which makes me assume that it's reserved for college students.

 

Cut for long novel summary and short character list. )


...Kill me. Kill me NOW. Before I take this madness any further.

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