When Plot Bunnies Attack

This is the writing journal for randombastary.

America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash–and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Every writer, without exception, is a masochist, a sadist, a peeping Tom, an exhibitionist, a narcissist, an injustice collector, and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductively. -- Edmund Bergler

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. -- Cyril Connolly

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't I would die. -- Isaac Asimov

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. -- Neil Gaiman

Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme
of things not found within recorded time.
It is not they that have forgot the Night,
or bid us flee to organized delight,
in lotus-isles of economic bliss
forswearing souls to gain a Circe-kiss
(and counterfeit at that, machine-produced,
bogus seduction of the twice-seduced).
Such isles they saw afar, and ones more fair,
and those that hear them yet may yet beware.
They have seen Death and ultimate defeat,
and yet they would not in despair retreat,
but oft to victory have tuned the lyre
and kindled hearts with legendary fire,
illuminating Now and dark Hath-been
with light of suns as yet by no man seen.

-- "Mythopoeia," by JRR Tolkien

Along with posting short god!fics here, I am posting sections of the book that I'm writing. As I don't want anything stolen from me, everything on this journal is flocked. If I don't know you, I'm not going to friend you. Period. Do not pass "Go". Do not collect $200. Go directly to jail. If I do know you, feel free to friend me (more often than not, I'll probably friend you back). If you stumbled across this journal and want to friend me on my main one, be my guest (I'm much more likely to friend you over there). There are "comment to be added" posts both there and here. If you want to be sure that I know you're there, make sure that you comment on them, as I go long periods without checking my profile pages.

If you want to see random, mythology-based short stories, I have posted some stuff to godfic (after posting them here).

Also, if you're interested, I have a blog for my personal muse, and my inner-writer at penelopebrennen. It is mainly where I go to talk about the act of writing, curse my muse, or celebrate when my muse hits me in the face with some pixie dust.

Maintainer of: godfic







Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. -- Charles Dickens

Credits:

My "10th Kingdom" moodthemes were made by tahraton_mieli on LJ, and can be found here.

My "Anne of Green Gables" moodtheme was made by dallowayward, and can be found here.

My LotR Hobbits moodtheme was made by hobbitholes, and can be found here.

My "Xena: Warrior Princess" moodtheme, I found here.

My Ancient Egyptian moodtheme was made by girlboheme @ frostianmoods on LJ, and can be found here.

My Ladies of Fantasy moodtheme was made by la_fleur_darion on LJ, and can be found here.

My Nightmare Before Christmas mood theme was made by engravedheart on LJ, and can be found here.

I found my Smooth Sailing layout here.

Kris --

[noun]: A master of storytelling

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