National Grammar Day

cross-posted to fandom_grammar

Today is National Grammar Day!

Let's not make it a day to complain about poor writing. Let's make it a day to encourage and celebrate good writing!

If you have read a story recently that contained beautiful writing, single out a favorite passage and tell the author how much you enjoyed it. Leave the feedback out in the open where everyone can see it, so that other authors will see that beautiful writing is rewarded, and they'll aspire to write beautifully, too. If the story isn't f-locked, praise it on your LJ and include a link.

Fandom grammarians spend a lot of time pulling weeds, a noble and important work. Let's cultivate the flowers, too!

Fic rec: inkling's Emergency! stories

The first fandom in which I participated whole-heartedly on the Internet was Emergency!, which unfortunately had an pretty low signal-to-noise ratio. When a gem came along, though, it shone out like the Arkenstone in Smaug's cave, to mix Kant and Tolkien. :-)

I forget how I discovered inkling's series of stories fleshing out the character of Mike Stoker, but I was ever-so-glad that I did. She managed to keep the characters in-character while presenting a serious, human take on the show, where people acted like grownups and led realistic lives with realistic joys and heartaches. (The closest parallel I can think of is the way Cindy Walker, a.k.a. st_crispins, writes M.U.N.C.L.E.) The stories were written in a style that had a serene grace even during the action scenes. She introduced OC's who did what OC's should do: they brought the reader new insights into our heroes without displacing them on the stage.

Most of the stories are here:
http://lovegage.topcities.com/fanfiction.html

Scroll down to "inkling," about halfway down the page.

And one of them is here:
http://www.geocities.com/toddfe2002/HELLFIREweb.htm

Enjoy!