Andy78

Happy birthday

Thanks for reviewing Joann. I find the administration are the same in every walk of life. It's always easier to ignore what's going on right under your nose.

It's been so long since I've done a prompt **finds muse, a baseball bat and ensures there are no witnesses**

Happy birthday Dave

With the massive fictitious universes we see with Star Wars, Discworld, Dr Who etc. I really don't think so. I'm a Star Trek nut myself, and although I'm sure I could do extremely well on Mastermind with it as my specialist subject, I know that I don't know everything about it. Given the huge number of spinoffs and novels from the series, I'd be amazed if anyone knows everything about the franchise. With the smaller universes (at least those that we limit to cannon) such as Famous Five, Secret Seven etc. I think a true fan could know everything.

Flashbacks? I can take 'em or leave 'em. Stephen King uses them brilliantly in "It" and fit in almost seamlessly with the story, and I've probably used them to some extent or another in stories. I find it useful to have rules on writing. They are like a recipe. It's only after religiously following a recipe (or the rules of writing) that someone becomes adept enough to be able to start playing around and experimenting with what can be changed and what can be left out.

As many here know I don't really get poetry, but I liked it.

Thanks Dolores. I love reading epistolary-style stories, and this was my first real foray into semi-epistolary style. I'm not sure I could write an entire in this style alone though.

Congrats Mark. A 10000 rep is a huge milestone to achieve. Is there any GA title you haven't achieved yet?

I second this one

Phew. Still reading anthology stories. Who can I speak to about adding a few more hours to a day?

Have a great day TJ Hope all your birthday wishes come true

Congrats Stellar

Thanks for reviewing. Thankfully about the closest this gets to real events is the occasional caning my dad got in school for getting caught smoking behind the bikesheds. First law of survival, blame anyone you can and accept no responsibility for anything.

Thanks for the review. The optimist in me hopes that schools like this are a thing of the past, but as you say the news says otherwise.

Thanks for the review Brink The ending was a difficult choice. Do I go for the "big bang" ending with the big resolution etc, or do I go with the more cynical "let's sweep it all under the carpet and make it go away" ending where nothing actually changes. I would have loved to be able to put more into this, but sadly I got the idea too close to the deadline.

Sara and Johnny have done a few shows together as boyfriend/girlfriend kind of thing. Her using him for recreation in the early days of Big Bang being the most recent. She was so young when she was in Roseanne, but when you know, you just know. Probably as a result of her coming out, I've seen a few Darlene and Becky slash stories over the years, but none of them any good.

Thanks for the review. The idea only came to me a day or so before the submission deadline, and I would have loved this to be a much longer story. I've thought about writing an epistolary story a few times. The Amarna Letters are a great insight into Ancient Egypt and a fascinating read for any fan of history. Who knows? I might come up with something.

Methinks this should have featured in our Pandora's Box anthology.

Only 22 entries Such slackers on this site

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! BOARDING SCHOOL CLOSES IN SCANDAL!! After a six month long investigation into the Uppendham School, the all-boys English boarding school has officially been closed. The school that has been a visual blight on the Somerset countryside for the best part of four centuries will be pulled down at the end of the month. It has oft been joked in Somerset that either the architect for the school was a drunkard or the building crews had the plans inside out and up

Uppendham Boys School has been rocked by scandal. The cause is the Pyxides, Uppendham's version of prefects.

Happy birthday Conner

I'm a little late, but I hope you had a great day Robert

I have no objections to reading or writing fanfics. I have read some brilliant fanfics (Myr's HP stuff is amazing) and I have read some truly awful pap (including some Malcolm in the Middle stuff that I really wish I could forget). I think to a large extent most of what is written today could be viewed as fanfic in some way or another. For example, many of the Star Trek novels are not written by any of the original scriptwriters. Modern remakes of films rarely involve any of the original scriptwriters or the people who came up with the concept. Many TV shows are based on old films and vice versa. These are all established universes that exist that a fan has simply picked up and ran with. The only difference between them and us is that their works have gained mainstream legitimacy in one way or another. I have to agree with earlier comments that there is probably very little in the way of modern literature or TV/film that could be called truly original. If you look hard enough, you'd find something that has already been used at least a dozen times before. I have been known to write the occasional fanfic and slashfic (mostly slash). Sometimes they are true to the established universe, sometimes I see just how far I can pervert cannon. We already know from several sources (including JK herself) that she had planned a huge HP universe, and a lot of in minute detail, that we never got to see - most of us thought that Blaize Zabini was a girl for the first five books. Her list of all first year students included who were purebloods/halfbloods/muggleborn, who were in what house, and even what their ethnic and geographic origins were. That is a lot of pseudo-cannon for fanficers (is that a word??) to use.