So recently there I was kibbitzing at the house of an old freind when she grappled my elbow with one hand clammy with Scriber's Fervor (not an antonym of Writer's Block; it's what happens when people who write get to enthuse about the *tools* of writing - and when was the last time you got buttonholed by a writer about a really sexy new eraser he just saw in Popular Mechanics) and - Blew my mind. Sure, it was Harry Potter fan fiction, but under the regard / goading of a rabid audience, she ...