Love, bad memory, waiting for Dickens, abandon ship, abandon hope, podslash
First of all, thanks to the people who said nice things about me in the anon V-day meme -- I was greatly cheered. Reading through the whole thing cheered me even more. All those people! saying nice things about other people! Yay.
Last night, far from the madding crowd my computer, I composed a witty livejournal post in my head. No, seriously, it was extremely witty, dammit. I can't remember a word of it now. I don't even remember what the subject was. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air, or in this case, the inside of my head. (Insert airhead joke here.)
I found anaphalis's post on How to Remain a Small Name Fan through metafandom, and also an utter delight (syllepsis ftw!). I particularly liked her point 8, Take lengthy, lengthy leaves of absence from writing, and it made me ponder. If you friend an lj for the fiction, and no such fiction is forthcoming, how long does it take you to surrender all hope and defriend again? Two weeks? Two months? Two years?
(I am writing, by the way. Slowly. (But you're welcome to defriend me anyway. Insert standard comment about how every day is defriending amnesty day here. (Insert standard confusion about defriending amnesty days. If you defriend someone and it isn't defriending amnesty day, do you suddenly find yourself with an involuntary starring role in The LJ Chainsaw Massacre, or what?)))
On the tail end of wip amnesty weekend, I'm about to post some wip fragments and declare them officially dead. Not the big ones, because apparently I still think I'm going to finish 18,000 words of Eroica from 2001 and 18,000 words of popslash from 2003, but a couple of small, sad, stunted things. Rest in peace, little stories.
The lovely temaris has made a podfic version of Title of the story; to my immense surprise, it's almost half an hour when read out loud, and seems a lot more weighty and respectable, somehow. Cool. :)
Last night, far from the madding crowd my computer, I composed a witty livejournal post in my head. No, seriously, it was extremely witty, dammit. I can't remember a word of it now. I don't even remember what the subject was. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air, or in this case, the inside of my head. (Insert airhead joke here.)
I found anaphalis's post on How to Remain a Small Name Fan through metafandom, and also an utter delight (syllepsis ftw!). I particularly liked her point 8, Take lengthy, lengthy leaves of absence from writing, and it made me ponder. If you friend an lj for the fiction, and no such fiction is forthcoming, how long does it take you to surrender all hope and defriend again? Two weeks? Two months? Two years?
(I am writing, by the way. Slowly. (But you're welcome to defriend me anyway. Insert standard comment about how every day is defriending amnesty day here. (Insert standard confusion about defriending amnesty days. If you defriend someone and it isn't defriending amnesty day, do you suddenly find yourself with an involuntary starring role in The LJ Chainsaw Massacre, or what?)))
On the tail end of wip amnesty weekend, I'm about to post some wip fragments and declare them officially dead. Not the big ones, because apparently I still think I'm going to finish 18,000 words of Eroica from 2001 and 18,000 words of popslash from 2003, but a couple of small, sad, stunted things. Rest in peace, little stories.
The lovely temaris has made a podfic version of Title of the story; to my immense surprise, it's almost half an hour when read out loud, and seems a lot more weighty and respectable, somehow. Cool. :)