Weekend Round-Up (early)
May. 23rd, 2009 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nursedarryHoping (crosses fingers) to be at the Oxford King's doubleheader tomorrow, so won't have too much time to post and also BT's southern coverage area was down all day and had no internet connection for 12 hours. *Curses MOD for not letting anyone have cable modems!*
Husband home from tour of France in broken helicopter. Said- and I quote- whole operation was yet another RAF clusterfuck- end quote. Oh well, your tax £££ spent well. Again.
Interesting reading on some of my H/D flist's posts about the whole n0ob/established writer relationship (I don't use the term Big Name Fan, as that's purely a relative description). Here's my take: I read everything depending on my mood and if I like the pairing and the sound of the premise. There is NO author I avoid reading. If I like the fic a lot, I gush. If I don't, I'll still thank the author for sharing it. (I usually find something in a fic I thought was inspiring). I do have my favourite TYPE of fic, rating and kinks, but I won't exclusively look for them. And I don't read something just because I've liked the author's work before- I read it because- well, I've explained above.
I JUST LOVE FIC. I'm so lucky that people with more time and talent than I have post wonderful stories. I beta, cause I don't have the time I need to write (and brother, do I need a lot of time...) and I personally feel it's a nice way of saying thank you.
Yes, I do feel let down when I get few comments on my own work- I'm a shy writer and need a lot of *squishes* as well as a ton of concrit. I'm not going to pretend I don't like the attention. I have a good-sized flist and for the most part, I do get a lot of feedback, but yes, sometimes it does feel like pulling teeth. But that's mostly my own fault for not blowing my own horn loudly enough! So, I am now going to be the cross-posting queen and hope to enter more fests so I can stop moaning and actually DO something about what annoys me about fandom (and this is in NO way limited to H/D, btw. This isn't the only fandom I play in but it IS the most vocal:)
And for the record, on the whole, I've felt very supported by well-established authors. I rely on them for my fic fix, so I'm not about to say that they don't support the fandom. Without them there wouldn't be one, huh? I'd've never even thought of posting a fic if they hadn't inspired me.
In other, and more important news, I was doing some infection control training for the nursing staff here yesterday. And they asked me to join bank staff! (For those of you who don't know, "bank" means people they can call to fill in or work the odd shift.) They'd like the staff to be an RGN (me), have training/certificate in massage therapy (me) and have a background in health promotion (me). It doesn't pay as well as the day job, but the hours are good- will probably do the odd Sunday shift or night- and the patients--- er- HAWT! And a lot easier to look after than some places I've worked bank on. And seeing as my hubby has expressed an interest in joining the police force when he comes out of the RAF, I think this is soooo cool! *does happy dance*
Okay, all for now. Can play now that internet is up and running- I got so much done today when I wasn't on-line! What a surpise. Am off all next week, so I'll be around. So long as BT doesn't fuck themselves up again.
Gonna go *censored* my husband now.
Husband home from tour of France in broken helicopter. Said- and I quote- whole operation was yet another RAF clusterfuck- end quote. Oh well, your tax £££ spent well. Again.
Interesting reading on some of my H/D flist's posts about the whole n0ob/established writer relationship (I don't use the term Big Name Fan, as that's purely a relative description). Here's my take: I read everything depending on my mood and if I like the pairing and the sound of the premise. There is NO author I avoid reading. If I like the fic a lot, I gush. If I don't, I'll still thank the author for sharing it. (I usually find something in a fic I thought was inspiring). I do have my favourite TYPE of fic, rating and kinks, but I won't exclusively look for them. And I don't read something just because I've liked the author's work before- I read it because- well, I've explained above.
I JUST LOVE FIC. I'm so lucky that people with more time and talent than I have post wonderful stories. I beta, cause I don't have the time I need to write (and brother, do I need a lot of time...) and I personally feel it's a nice way of saying thank you.
Yes, I do feel let down when I get few comments on my own work- I'm a shy writer and need a lot of *squishes* as well as a ton of concrit. I'm not going to pretend I don't like the attention. I have a good-sized flist and for the most part, I do get a lot of feedback, but yes, sometimes it does feel like pulling teeth. But that's mostly my own fault for not blowing my own horn loudly enough! So, I am now going to be the cross-posting queen and hope to enter more fests so I can stop moaning and actually DO something about what annoys me about fandom (and this is in NO way limited to H/D, btw. This isn't the only fandom I play in but it IS the most vocal:)
And for the record, on the whole, I've felt very supported by well-established authors. I rely on them for my fic fix, so I'm not about to say that they don't support the fandom. Without them there wouldn't be one, huh? I'd've never even thought of posting a fic if they hadn't inspired me.
In other, and more important news, I was doing some infection control training for the nursing staff here yesterday. And they asked me to join bank staff! (For those of you who don't know, "bank" means people they can call to fill in or work the odd shift.) They'd like the staff to be an RGN (me), have training/certificate in massage therapy (me) and have a background in health promotion (me). It doesn't pay as well as the day job, but the hours are good- will probably do the odd Sunday shift or night- and the patients--- er- HAWT! And a lot easier to look after than some places I've worked bank on. And seeing as my hubby has expressed an interest in joining the police force when he comes out of the RAF, I think this is soooo cool! *does happy dance*
Okay, all for now. Can play now that internet is up and running- I got so much done today when I wasn't on-line! What a surpise. Am off all next week, so I'll be around. So long as BT doesn't fuck themselves up again.
Gonna go *censored* my husband now.
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Date: 2009-05-23 09:30 pm (UTC)*bearhug*
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Date: 2009-05-23 10:37 pm (UTC)Lucky bitch.
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Date: 2009-05-23 11:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-05-24 04:02 am (UTC)I'm glad the extra work is something you'll like. :)
I'm glad to hear you had a nice welcome into fandom.
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Date: 2009-05-24 08:45 am (UTC)That made me splutter XD XD XD
I'm a terrible one for reading fic; I used to read a lot but I got out of it. I had a few close-ish people who wrote and I never really 'got' what they were doing and it was hard to give feedback as they were SO sensitive about it. BLEH. I should get back into it, though; there are some wonderfully gifted writers XD
I hope you enjoyed baking cakes with the hoosband. I'm pretty sure that's what you were censoring, y/y? XD
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Date: 2009-05-25 01:33 am (UTC)I adore you, my darling!
And I'm right with you on liking the positive feedback and squishes. Concrit, on the other hand, depends on how fragile (read: crazy) I am on any given day! lol
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Date: 2009-05-26 06:37 pm (UTC)If my DW notification is anything to go by, today (26th) is your b-day. so...
Happy Birthday!!
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Date: 2009-05-26 08:26 pm (UTC)