Fan fiction in general was: MOVED from MAIN - "sequels" to the classics

Carol justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 13 21:40:36 UTC 2008


Geoff:
> Oh, stocking tops!
> 
> What always gets up my nose is the fact that there is a little
gremlin living in my computer who reveals an error two seconds after
you hit the Send button.....
> 
> I proof read and proof read... and he still gets his oar in.
> :-(
> 
> Do any of you out there have a cousin of his resident in your CPU?
>
Carol responds:

I certainly do, and it's particularly irritating to me to spot my
errors hurling through cyberspace, shaking their little gremlin fists
at me and laughing as I helplessly wait for them to expose themselves
onlist, since I edit for a living and ought to catch all such errors.
(Just today, I typed "Barty Crouch Sr." meaning "Jr." on the Movie
List, where I made myself feel better by correcting the error before
anyone else did.)

My personal gremlin likes to switch the names of characters. He's been
known to call Dumbledore "Voldemort" and Harry "Snape," rather like
calling Churchill "Hitler" (not that Snape is evil, but Harry thought
he was for the longest time). He (the gremlin, not Harry) is also
extremely good at replacing names with vague pronouns that seem to
refer to the wrong person and long, tangled sentences that made
perfect sense to me as I typed them but somehow became ungrammatical
along the way (surely garbled by that mischievous gremlin). I'm not
sure where he hides them, but I'm pretty sure that my gremlin has a
huge collection of end-parentheses [)] to match the many open
parentheses [(] in my posts. You know, he makes it look like I forget
to close up my own parenthetical statements. 

I hereby certify that I have proofread this post. Any typos or errors
of logic or expression are the responsibility of the gremlin. :-p!!!

Carol, who loves the expression "Oh, stocking tops!" and wonders
whether it's Geoff's own invention





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