help!

Feb. 16th, 2009 03:51 am
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (ohnoswhothATAV)
Okay, so I'm totally lame and trawling for writing ideas. Which I would be ashamed about, except I'm more ashamed about not bringing work to my class, and my brain is fried from doing research on ridiculous things like the samurai honor code and orphanages in the 1940s, so. Here goes.

Let's say you have two female characters on the run from enemy spies in San Diego during WWII. Where could they go and what could they do? I already have the following (vague) ideas: gas station; visiting a friend working at the manufacturing plants; something involving dangling the characters off a bridge. I've already covered the diner where they work, too.

Please help! Drag out your favorite WWII-era movie tropes and fling them at me! (film recs illustrating said tropes? also useful!) The more cliche, the better! Pleeeeeaaase?
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (peppermintbowl)
Katie left me today to go back to the wild wilderness of Connecticut. I'm trying to decide whether curling up on the couch and watching Benton Fraser be a giant goofnut or watching angst-filled anime on Netflix instant viewing would be better.

Oh! And I just remembered that I never posted about the fic I wrote for Yuletide! My recipient was [livejournal.com profile] automaticdoor, and she requested fic for L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle. I wrote Once In A Blue Moon for her, and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

For those of you who have never read The Blue Castle, allow me to highly recommend it. You can read it online here thanks to Project Gutenberg (*draws nerdy hearts*). Valancy is a really fun character, full of guts and a snarky sense of humor that I would enjoy in a modern heroine, much less a book set in 1926, small-town Canada. She's totally awesome, and the book itself has some really hilarious scenes. (I made Katie read it when she was back for Christmas, and she was laughing out loud.) Go read! Especially if you're already an Anne of Green Gables fan! You won't regret it. :)

writing process stuff )

I'm going to repost the fic here in my journal in just a bit, for the sake of tagging OCD/archive crash paranoia. :)

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