Hi; have friended you on the wonderful wanderlight's recommendation, and would have written a far more sensical first sentance if it hadn't been for the fact that doing it this way allowed me to use a semi-colon as my first punctuation mark. I hope you don't mind.

(In fact, between starting this and finishing it I have commented on your writing journal anyway; but the point still stands. And now there are two.)

The reason I commented on this particular entry rather than the most recent one, which would have made far more sense, is that you mentioned steampunk, and I have recently read China Meíveille's Perdido Street Station, which is a magnificant example of how wonderful steampunk can; it is inventive and baroque and bizarre, and I loved it. (It is built in a world that is not explained but simply travelled in, and we meet scientists and criminals and underground reporters and artists and dock-workers and mercenaries and politicians and the Ambassador of Hell, and we see analogue computers and flintlock pistols and a menagerie of things with wings and photographic evidence of a long-resolved nuclear-style war and silent women who have scarab-beetles for their heads, and I cannot recomend it enough.)