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Oh my goodness. Well... erm... what to say to this now. (If only I could stop blushing and giggling like a schoolgirl.)
*Hugs Beau and Lisa ferociously*
Oh, thank you both! You've made my day... and won me over. I'm writing like a maniac and I'll have it up tonight even if it kills me, which it won't, so don't panic. I can't die now, I have stories to wait for!
Oh, I'm so excited about those sequels, Beau! It's such a great concept and so interesting, and absolutely breaks my heart... which actually, is what Lisa does to me too, so there you go.
I'm just gonna go ahead and grab a muffin before the penguins start flying at my head. Yum. I'm glad you like my diction and word choices. I'm a bit (cough) obsessed with words. I like them, and often I'll smile when someone uses a particularly interesting word. To some extent then, yeah, it's deliberate, but boy it's nice to know I'm sucessful. I just try to picture the characters talking, hear it in my head... if I can, then the sentence stays, if I can't, I fidget with it until I like it, or I rewrite it entirely.
I sometimes use the online thesaurus or a dictionary to make sure a word means what I think it means, but not very often 'cause I get bogged down.
There you go, all my secrets. Aren't I exciting and mysterious?
P.S. A theosaurous sounds like a particularly grammatical dinosaur.