Quizzage, Writing

[emmagrant01]

There was a time when this would have been accurate:

<td align="center"> Emma Grant --
[noun]:

A dance involving little to no clothing

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com</td>


I'm not sure what this one is about:

Emma Grant will have to write:

I will not be an inspiration to the Bush Administration

'What will you have to write on the chalk board?' at QuizGalaxy.com

This made me laugh:

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You will go to jail for:	You claimed sex toys as a business expense on your tax forms
Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

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On a completely different note: I may not have been posting a lot of fic lately, but I've been writing quite a lot. I submitted a fic to hp_loveletters, and my (very late, so sorry, Robin!) submission for hp_springsmut is almost finished. After that one's done, I can get back to writing other things at last! (Viki and Abby, I swear I'm still in it!) Between Smutmas, Jedi Santa, HP Infinities, and these two exchanges, I think I overcommitted myself this fall. :-P

Don't get me wrong -- I love writing for fic exchanges, because they push me to write pairings and scenarios I may not have attempted otherwise. Writing a fic for a particular person's tastes can be a challenging task, and it's a lot of fun to try to do it. I tend to like working with deadlines and pressure, though, which means I almost always procrastinate and often only start working on these fics a week or two before the deadline. That sort of intensity is usually part of my process; I mark out blocks of several hours at a time (when MDH is travelling and I've nothing better to do in the evenings) and bury myself in writing. But this last month, I had little time to spare, and I really paid the price for waiting. Still, I'm proud of the two fics I wrote, and I don't think they would have turned out as well if I hadn't written them quickly and intensely. That seems to work for me as a writer, painful as it can be.

All right, back to work. *sips coffee*

ETA: Oh, Splenda! How lovely to have you back in the break room! So much better than sugar or the pink stuff!

ETA 2: lightstarangel and I have found the (unavailable in the US) purse-packet Splenda tablets for sale online here! :-D

Comments

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :-)

Splenda, evil? As in, bad on the digestive system, or evil in another way?

[glockgal.livejournal.com]

I think in the general health kinda way? You know how you hear all sorts of crazy reports about sugar substitute things and it's just always like 'what do I believe?! arrr!'

Plus, those Splenda commercials on TV are really hooking me. *grin*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Ah, right -- but that's for aspartame, I think, Nutrasweet and such. Splenda is something different, IIRC. And it tastes better, anyway!