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Meeting J. K. Rowling
How crazy is my life that I have not been able to bask in the afterglow of this for four days now? Bleh.
Anyway, I met iamstarmom and her daughter and a couple other fans for dinner first and we talked about the books and the questions we submitted. Then I ran off to meet my cousin, who was already waiting in line, and we got in and got seats pretty quickly ( Read more... ) -
The Question
"What was the 'huge gaping plot hole' that you discovered halfway through writing Goblet of Fire?"
I like it, but not so much that I'm unwilling to consider alternatives. I'll probably submit something tomorrow, so if you think you might have a better one, speak now or forever hold your peace. -
One Week Til Jo
If I meet this woman I promise I will smack her upside the head. I think I'm gonna ask Jo what that major plot hole was in Goblet of Fire that she refused to talk about before. -
Question for Jo?
So we each get to submit a question on the Scholastic website that Jo might answer on the night of the reading. Obviously I need to make it a good one, something both I and a lot of other fans are interested in.
One thing I've really been wanting to ask her for ages is: "In an October 1999 interview with The Atlanta Journal and Constitution you ( Read more... ) -
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I am going to meet J. K. Rowling. I just got a call from Scholastic saying I won a pair of tickets to the October reading at Carnegie Hall. I can't believe it, I'm still in shock. -
Birthday Wishes
Happy Slightly Belated Birthday to msarithmancer (aka zgirnius)!! -
How Awesome Is This?
LJ and the HP fandom in general haven't seen much of me lately, because I've been moving and starting off the school year at my new teaching job these past few weeks. But guess what? I get to teach a class on Harry Potter! Yeah, the topic was my idea - teachers get to do one elective on anything they want. I figured this would be the easiest and ( Read more... ) -
Long time no post
Been apartment hunting, which is a huge drag. I need a place before I start work at my new school in about two weeks, and the pickings in the area are pretty slim. I'm having a hard time getting actual humans on the phone at the management offices I've been calling, and I was hoping to have talked to some before heading up there tomorrow to look in ( Read more... ) -
Potter Discoveries of the Day
I discovered this dangerously addictive Harry Potter trivia game at Veritaserum. I am already up to 9th place out of 139 players; or at least I was right before I left. This is bad. This could eat up a lot of my time.
I am also thinking of applying to hogwarts_elite (via sorting_elite). I'm not sure exactly what they do, but I like the idea of going through a rigorous ( Read more... ) -
Minor Rant
One of the annoying things about writing fanfiction is that you can never really own your characters. I mean, you can have them in your head for weeks or months, adding subtlety and depth to their personalities, deciding how they must have grown and evolved, and generally playing god with them. Then the real author can come in and mess it all up in ( Read more... )