Limerick day on LJ

I know I’m not the only Christian who has ever shaken their heads over the Fred Phelpses of this world, read some of the pronouncements of some of the Christian personalities and politicians in the USA and thought to themselves “that’s not what my faith is about at all!  What happened to ‘God is Love’? …

24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What’s the most interesting way you’ve killed someone? I’m perfectly willing to kill a character whose purpose in the story is to die – that’s what he’s there for. To a certain extent I think of my characters as actors…

COUNTERPOINT: DYLAN’S STORY is the story of Dylan Rutledge’s life, from the age of eighteen until his early thirties, and of the two men whose lives were intertwined with his at different times and in different ways. At eighteen Dylan Rutledge has one obsession: music. He believes his destiny is to be the greatest composer…

I went to see Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief today, and thoroughly enjoyed it.  Much glee over the opening sequence with Poseidon turning up in modern day New York wearing something that looked very much like a sailor suit.  I’ve never quite shared the tendency to swoon over Sean Bean that I know affects…

One of the worst things about LJ being down so often this week is that I use LJ to read my RSS feeds.  I not only keep up with my LJ friends, but use LJ’s feed aggregator to read author blogs.  If LJ is going to be this flaky in future, that needs to change….