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I've started relying more on people's tags to find their other fic and not bothering to go look at their memories. There are three reasons for this:

1. So many people don't use memories anymore that looking for them just got to be an exercise in disappointment.
   
2. When I find a piece of good fic via delicious, it's so easy to just click on the tags at the ( Read more... )

One of the interesting things about my writing group is that I'm learning a lot about how other people read. One member of our group said he's heard that people don't read prologues, generally speaking, and another member said she will sometimes read the prologue when she's well into the book.

( Poll: What do you do with a prologue? )

I don't know very many of my neighbors. I can recognize a few people on sight, but in terms of people whose names I know, the list is pretty short. A young family who are friends of a friend lives on the other side of the complex, a friend of my mom's lives near the tennis courts, and the woman who lived two doors down introduced herself to me once ( Read more... )

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Non-Binding Poll: What should I write in 2008 ( Read more... )

I don't think my mother reads my LJ, but just in case: Mom, don't read this until after you open your birthday present!

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I have very severe allergies. When I was five, my cousins and I played in the very tall grass next door. When we came in, I had to lie on the couch with a wet washcloth over my eyes because they'd swollen shut ( Read more... )

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