so I can't stop writing.

[maderr]

Long hand is really odd after having just used my computer for so long. But I've outlined three more fairtytales, worked a little little bit on Grave, and have FINALLY FINALLY started to bring together my Ulimate Story (Read: Obligatory Story Revolving Around the Elements). Also have started a story for the greekgodslash challenge of the week (#2).

Also started Abarat by Clive Barker. Everyone will read this book. That is an order. (Aren't you impressed I finally got around to reading it Duckie?)

Now to be completely random, this has been bothering me for a long time (and I don't want to go to work):

All right
Alright

Difference? When do you use one or the other? Interchangeable? Not? Can anyone explain it for me?

Okay, okay. Off to pizza land, luckily I got out of closing b/c C was desperate for money. I only (for now) have to work 3-8 (rush hours). Peace.

Comments

[hayama-sb.livejournal.com]

I deleted the previous post in order to add more to it...

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=alright
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=all%20right

Quoted from the "all right" entry...
"Usage Note: Despite the appearance of the form alright in works of such well-known writers as Langston Hughes and James Joyce, the single word spelling has never been accepted as standard. This is peculiar, since similar fusions such as already and altogether have never raised any objections. The difference may lie in the fact that already and altogether became single words back in the Middle Ages, whereas alright has only been around for a little more than a century and was called out by language critics as a misspelling. Consequently, one who uses alright, especially in formal writing, runs the risk that readers may view it as an error or as the willful breaking of convention."

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Thank you muchly, kind sir. I had thought it was incorrect but it's used so frequently I wasn't sure.

[raielchan.livejournal.com]

Ah, I knew it was a matter of preference, didn't realize one was more correct than the other. I knew it and forgot it. Then I remembered it again.

Abarat? I've read Hellbound Heart, Cabal, and Thief of Always, but I started The Great and Secret Show twice and gave up. Then I lost the book and efforts to locate it have failed.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Are those all fantasy? I was actually kind of surprised to see he'd written Abarat because it's a YA fantasy story (with a hella vocab, I had no idea the word piscatorial even existed), and I thought he usually wrote horror or something. How are those others you've listed?

[raielchan.livejournal.com]

The Thief of Always is a children's/YA fairy tale (modern day). Kind of like Hansel and Gretel or any other Grimm's story. It was really good. There was talking of making it a movie a few years back.

If Abarat is anything like it, I may have to give it a look. Is it fantasy like swords and magic or fantasy as in . . . ?

Well, Hellbound Heart is the book that inspired Hellraiser. You know, one man's pursuit of pleasure taken too far . . .

Cabal is three stories I think. The first inspired the movie Nightbreed. In it, monsters of old are real and people are the real monsters. I really liked it. And the other stories are . . . interesting. One of them was the basis for Lord of Illusions which is a movie I highly recommend - more detective noir than horror. Most of Clive Barker's movie adaptations were done by him as well, and LoI was pretty much the only one he re-created as something different rather than doing a complete adaptation (which I think was a good thing because LoI was kind of a half-story).

One thing about Cabal I noticed was how sexual/ erotic the imagery in his writing was. So, his writing was quite noticeably different in his YA work.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

I wish I had spending money, these books need to be on my bookcase.

It's not exactly 'swords and magic' though there is magic...it's the "ordinary girl travels to mysterious world and saves it" but the girl is really cool (I seldom like the heroines) and all the quirky characters she meets are cool as hell. It's a lot of fun, and if it's half as good as you say Theif is you'd love it.

[raielchan.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll have to keep an eye out for it then.

[abiona-sashenka.livejournal.com]

WHOO! Abarat! I'm still at about 100 pages into it, but that becomes my bedroom book once I finish The Chronicles of Narnia (which is sluggish and puts me to bed after a chapter every night).

YAY!

And here I thought you were talking about Mythos....

[amasugiru.livejournal.com]

:P

Re: And here I thought you were talking about Mythos....

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Hee, this might actually amuse you Gomi. Do you remember the night you first told me about Mythos? At the same time I was working on the beginnings of what I call my elements story. But I dropped it completely when we started on Mythos; this is the first time I've thought about it since then. Some combination of Abarat and my ggs story recalled it to mind. But it's something I don't plan on writing until I'm like 40 - it really will be my Ultimate Story.

You could've just asked Grammar Nazi

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

And I'd've told you. Seeing as I do know everything.

Re: You could've just asked Grammar Nazi

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. But I figured I wouldn't pester you.