BronxWench

There’s always paperwork, and so much of it!  @Desiderius Price is right about that.

@pittwitch Other people tend to get upset when you do, not to mention the paperwork.

Must not kill of your own spawn, eh?
 

Alright, I’ll fetch the peanut butter.

I agree, taze ‘em.

@WillowDarkling  You can have all the thunder and lightning as your heart desires ….  No reason we can’t all enjoy a good light show.

Can I put in an order for one of those when I come to visit, please? I just love thunder and lighting, so I want to see a proper one  

this too shall pass.  Keep telling yourself that.  It really does pass eventually.

taze 'em?

Oh, my dear Witch, I can so empathize.  My advice is wine, and lots of it. Oh, and run away every chance you get. 

Holy caw… Lawnzilla is on overdrive!
 

Wonderful to hear that you got to have a lovely meal with your boy. How’s he doing? How’s your daughter too? Are they doing well?

I’m glad you had a wonderful day!  
I had lunch with my son—we’d done the dinner thing a week early because crowds. But it was lovely to spend the afternoon with him, because his take on life is refreshingly different.

Wonderful news. Sorry I am so late to see this. Congratulations on the new publishing deal. I truly hope it gets all the attention you deserve for this adorable story series.

Thank you, and wish your mum a belated happy Mother’s Day from over here!

They film quite a bit for that show in my neighborhood. All of the Law and Order shows, actually. But I did get to meet Jerry Orbach once, and he was lovely.

Funny you should mention Law & Order @CloverReef because that just happens to be my favorite one!  The original, not the Special Victims Unit.

I’m totally enjoying watching doctors watch medical dramas on youtube. I should look for criminal justice people watching law and order and stuff.

I feel you with that one!  I used to love certain types of TV shows until I went school for criminal justice. 

The issue has been finding the right idea for the episode (and ark survival).

You had better! Or else! 

(Did that sound badass and threatening, but still supportive? Because that’s what I was going for.)

I used to looove Marion Zimmer Bradley. Now I gotta google it. 

I think more authors are becoming open to fan fiction. However, there is still a huge stigma dating back to the Marion Zimmer Bradley legal issue (which remains unclear to this day, IMO). Many authors won’t read any fan fiction of their work because they are afraid if anything they write resembles that fan fiction, they will be sued. It’s tainted the relationship between fan fiction writers and authors for some time.

Exactly, and we also inspire. Some authors, like Lois McMaster Bujold, put fan fiction on the websites. They understand that people can fall so deeply in love with their worlds that they need to fill in the blanks, cover things the author might not have addressed, or merely hinted at. Neil Gaiman writes fan fiction. Orson Scott Card has written fan fiction for an Issac Asimov fan fiction anthology. Andy Weir wrote a fan fiction that the original author, Ernest Cline, liked enough to publish.
So for those of us who write fan fiction, celebrate! We are creative people with lively imaginations who ask “What if...”

Ahhh! That's pretty harsh, but good. Bittersweet!