because I'm never on the Nano forums, except when I am...

[thanate]

To the dark gods of writing!!!!

O great terrible gods of writing, who I hope are greater, but less terrible than the ancient gods in my novel:

I'd be terribly grateful if you could arrange with the proper authorities for more long, focused periods of creativity, possibly punctuated by my doing something that is useful outside of the novelling realm.

In exchange, I should be happy to offer you all incoming phone calls after 10 pm (one of which either you or verizon already seems to have devoured), a postal envelope full of receipts and DC codes for already-delivered craftster packages, and the souls of the ex-co-worker who walked off with other people's private property and the hideously incompetent tree trimmers who butchered the trees outside of work the other day. You might as well take the trees, too, since they haven't really got much of a chance.

If you could see your way clear to giving back my sleep schedule, I would also appreciate it.

--thanate


Also... what the heck happened to the rule about doubling the last letter when you add a suffix that starts in a vowel? My spellcheck keeps marking words like "travelled" and "travelling" wrong. (lj's spellcheck only seems to think the latter is wrong, but that makes even less sense. The middle syllable is *still* the same vowel sound.)

Yeah, I'm going to the library now...

Comments

[grauwulf.livejournal.com]

and lo' the great deity of December shall grant your wish.

[the-impassive.livejournal.com]

I think "travelled" and "travelling" are more commonly British forms.

But I'm such a fucking throwback that I still doublespace after closing a sentence. I know it's no longer standard, but I can't stop doing it. I have to run a find/replace on manuscripts when I'm done.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I was taught that, too. And the evil microsoft grammar checker doesn't mark it wrong, so it must be ok, really...