Rar.

While I sit here in the bedroom and refresh the flist I can hear PoA playing in the living room.

Hermione just howled her "werewolf mating call".

My teeth are grinding together.

And we wonder why people skewer canon so? *grin*

Thinking about clichés...

With junediamanti's new comm potter_cliche I've seen a lot of people bring up a lot of clichés.

It's interesting that many of the clichés in other pairings are completely new to me, and, as a result, I simply read them in befuddlement. Yet SS/adult clichés cause me to wince sometimes.

I was just posting a comment in someone else's LJ about the subject and realized that, as much as a poorly written fic riddled with clichés bothers me, the problem lies more with the fact that it is poorly written. I have seen some chocoholic!Remus fics, for example, that were quite steamy and well-written. When several inexperienced writers take on chocolate-abusing!Remus, though, the result is a profound "Ugh!"

A good writer can take the most stilted and conventional cliché and turn it into something thought-provoking and moving.

Clichés are clichés because the idea resonated with so many people.

Yeah, I get a bit peeved at all of the Severus-has-swallowed-a-thesaurus fics, but sometimes the writing is so good that I just move past the cliché to the story itself.

So this is what I've discovered about myself today: I like to scoff at clichés, and I still check out pottersues. But I can't wholly condemn poor writing, clichés, or inexperienced writing. At least they're writing. I just hope I find the back button quickly enough. Brought to you by cynical, yet not quite heartless letter C.

I hope this all made sense. I'm so tired.
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Tomorrow will be the day of much driving (14 hours) and hoping for time to obey all of my commands and compress itself. I'm really mad at myself for not thinking this through more fully. Then again, my schedule isn't set by myself alone, but by all of the appointments in my book, so I usually have to blend "how can I make this work" with "how can I best give the appointment what it wants". A tricky balancing act.
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for aerynstales
Brew glory with me!
Potions master, late thirties, desires witch with patience, drive, and basic knowledge of brewing. No hags. Must own cauldron and set of scales. No foolish wand-waving. Must be willing to relocate to dungeons. Send picture of cauldron to Hogwarts, care of S. Snape.
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