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... encouraging bad and inexperienced authors to learn to write and thus, likely, remove their bad writing is part of the PPC's mission...

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Anyzratak, Awalsinats or Allebazi. Yes, I totally just spelt my great-grandmother's (and mine, incidentally), grandmother's ad mother's names backwards. Ehh, do what you like with them. :D

birgit dot fishwife at gmail dot com. Fingers crossed OpenOffice can handle .docs...

called Canons Lane. there's also a ohuse, even nearer by, called Acacia. I always have a bit of a giggle when I see them. :D

The NC-17 thing was just an example of people ignoring what the author's said. I should've separated that from the next sentence, which was referring to my own theoretical very popular novels. I know people are going to write slash and rape and incest. I'd just want to keep a lid on the stuff people wrote about my characters, so I'd put the kibosh on rapefic and whatnot being posted publicly and aff.net would be one of the first sites I informed of my wishes.

aff.net does the best they can to keep minors off the site but of course it's not 100%. No matter how good of a mousetrap they build, the mice will eventually figure out a way to steal the cheese without tripping the trap.

Friendship fics are a total blast to write. That's what the majority of what I'm turning into a novel is, and there's a lot of guy/girl friendship. Two people giving each other hell and jerking each other's chains and showing up with guns and ammo when the other needs reinforcements--or stays on the phone for three hours at 2 a.m. when they need to get up for work at 6 a.m. because the friend is having a really hard time of it and needs someone. I have a guy friend like that and I love him to death. Platonically, of course. ;)

Sometimes it just takes a little while for people to get round to posting. If you have a LJ link, most usually post on there as well.
But it looks pretty good. Now I've gotta think of ways to get my Agents involved. Or not... Hmm.

I volunteer Agent Arti to kidnap one and study them, just to se eif they have a special immunity for Squickfics that could be useful to the PPC.

I agree that NC-17 should not be on ff.net, mostly because of how many children frequent that site. Unfortunately there is plenty of evidence that underaged users are all over adult alternatives such as aff.net. There is no reliable way to block them out either. I know I used to lie my way into aff on a regular basis.

If there's a reason why a character would never experiment then I would respect that when writing fanfiction. Friendship fics are just as interesting to write as romance fics, sometimes even more so.

I must be doing something wrong with my posts. Now what could it be?

Looks like it's missing, all right.

It was that bad. I don't even know much about Full Metal Alchemist, and it was blatantly, obviously, horribly bad. Songfic, too, by the way.

Since I still had it up on my screen, here's the first couple of sentences:

Sophie walked into the office. In her crisp blue uniform with the Uniform Skirt and a pair of blue heels. Sophie Jennifer Witmor. She was a solider and a girl, at only age 17. She was a little to mature for her age, and she hated it. Everyone liked her for her looks, they never let her do anything!

Yeah. And that's just the start. She's a lieutenant, by the way. One who flouts regulations and insults superior officers ... hell, knocks down superior officers ... but seems to avoid the court-martial that should naturally follow. We've got world-class Sueage here ... and she took it down. :( Where's the fun in that?

Once I get a decent microphone, anyways.

If you can give good reason for going right instead of left when the road splits and keep the characters IC, go for it. If you can believably have them become a different person, have a blast.

I know you're never going to stop everyone from writing fic you don't like, or fic in general. Case in point: there are sites full of NC-17 HP fics and Jo's made it clear she doesn't want NC-17 fics written with her characters. I just don't want it showing up on ff.net and other sites that get a lot of traffic.

At this point in my writing, all the characters have settled any questions they might've had about their sexuality. Bri's a moderately conservative Christian so he'd never act on any homosexual urges and Kyle wouldn't because...he just wouldn't. There's a reason but it's complicated and involves issues and baggage from his childhood that he refuses to deal with. He still wouldn't even if he got therapy but at least he'd be able to explain why in twenty words or less. ;) The only subtext I've tried to lay for them is one of friendship and mutual respect, both personally and professionally.

Cassie wased no time in testing out just how easy it was to fit all her presents in. "This is pretty nifty. Oh, graba drink. We've got plenty left."

... when the New Caledonia city was founded, some of us were thinking it'd be nice to have a PPC PO Box in New Cal to send postcards and stuff to. For various reasons that's ridiculous, but if anyone happens to live close to Canon City, it could be a revivable idea...

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... the Board on Geographic Names officially added a tilde over the n, making it technically Cañon City. So speaks Wikipedia.

Nevertheless! Given that the Canon Protection Initiative already has one official residence on World One (ie, the New Cal city), an office in the US would be perfectly acceptible. All we need now is for someone to canonise it...

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If it can wait until, er, Wednesday, that is. Bloody essay then someone's leaving do will have me occupied until then.

Who wishes to take it on? Whoever takes it must have a working knowledge of HP and of K-9's character.

(If it was as bad as you say, I hope the latter.)

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She ran back to the bag and grabbed it. "It's a bag of holding. To hold all you other presents. And stuff." She walked off to the other auditorium with Cassie.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0

LEARN. YOU MUST SING.

Er, I mean, if that would help... *innocent*