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Yuletide again
I wrote FOUR things for Yuletide. *shakes head* That place is addictive. I'd never written in any of the fandoms before. One was totally off the top of my head. Another came together at the very last minute (and then it was edit for another hour or 50, as much as I could manage to get done in this case). Only one story was under 1,000, too. Feels like I've been in training, so nice to just write. Neglected other things as a result, of course.
Had a lovely, lovely ASJ fiction written for me, Absence of Fear ,and a Long Walk fiction, too (my favorite book), Ask for Anything, with nice character development that I hadn't even really thought about (one of the Walkers was married, and this was the aftermath from the wife's POV). I was so, so happy to see that I was given not one but two stories in a couple of favorite, very small fandoms:) There is nothing like seeing a nice-sized story come out in your small fandom - rare stuff and very much appreciated.
Plus, SNOW. Not like Kimberly had, but it's been a lot of years since we had a snow that stuck to the ground for Christmas. Our 2nd snow this year, too, which is early for us.
My husband's still unemployed, but recently doing some contract work for a nice wage. We managed a nice Christmas for the kids and not so bad for ourselves, even - I got a Kindle. It's so light. And A03 allows you to download in mobi format, which is just none-propriatary Kindle reading:) I've also found that if you have a mobi reader, the freebie from the mobi site, you can just drag docs and other formats to it and it'll convert them - not perfectly, in that I haven't gotten it to name things correctly always, but readable. And easy, if you've got a bulky folder or ten of fan fiction waiting to be read on your hard drive.
Last day off tomorrow, sigh. Hope everyone had a good holiday.
Had a lovely, lovely ASJ fiction written for me, Absence of Fear ,and a Long Walk fiction, too (my favorite book), Ask for Anything, with nice character development that I hadn't even really thought about (one of the Walkers was married, and this was the aftermath from the wife's POV). I was so, so happy to see that I was given not one but two stories in a couple of favorite, very small fandoms:) There is nothing like seeing a nice-sized story come out in your small fandom - rare stuff and very much appreciated.
Plus, SNOW. Not like Kimberly had, but it's been a lot of years since we had a snow that stuck to the ground for Christmas. Our 2nd snow this year, too, which is early for us.
My husband's still unemployed, but recently doing some contract work for a nice wage. We managed a nice Christmas for the kids and not so bad for ourselves, even - I got a Kindle. It's so light. And A03 allows you to download in mobi format, which is just none-propriatary Kindle reading:) I've also found that if you have a mobi reader, the freebie from the mobi site, you can just drag docs and other formats to it and it'll convert them - not perfectly, in that I haven't gotten it to name things correctly always, but readable. And easy, if you've got a bulky folder or ten of fan fiction waiting to be read on your hard drive.
Last day off tomorrow, sigh. Hope everyone had a good holiday.
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No brain malfunction! You just wrote your big advent calendar as well (I have it open on 1 of about oh, 40 tabs:)
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Aw... tis true, the Calendar story ate into my time to do YT. Hope you like it. :)
Gah, now must catch up on reading! Your pressies sound great, and I haven't read the other calendar entries, and so much YT... *iz dizzy*
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Enjoy the Kindle. I love the e-reader I use. Fanfic on the go!
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