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What? I get to be silly on my own journal. Although I refuse to use Kronos for an icon on that...

Anyway. I'm putting stories on pages and trying to figure out how best to update my website after not doing so for um, almost 3 years and ~~probably~~ 60 stories now. Anyone have any suggestions? (As I keep coding fic....)

Poll #14047 Updating my site

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What's the best way to post the updates?

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One fell swoop.
4 (12.1%)

Three fell swoops for people to catch up; I'll suggest an interval between new posts in the comments.
1 (3.0%)

Do all the series stories in one update, then the free-standing stories in the next; time interval between posted in the comments.
1 (3.0%)

Do all the free-standing stories in one update, then the series stories in the next; time interval between posted in the comments.
1 (3.0%)

Something else I'll suggest in the comments.
1 (3.0%)

I have no suggestions on this, but I wish you luck and/or virtual chocolate/caffeine/sanity.
25 (75.8%)

You know: suggestions happily taken, but the work's on me.

Current Mood: determined
Current Music: Revelations 6:8 in the background
Crossposts: http://gryphonrhi.livejournal.com/589485.html

Is it just me, or is this Fanfic Flamingo the story of my writing life?

Fanfic flamingo, text reads "Start a small AU one-shot. Expanding into a fully developed 'verse with a multi-chapter fic and ten side stories."

Poll #12897 Me or not?

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To plot or not to plot, or at least tell me how many people voted.

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I was here; I can't vouch for Kilroy.
26 (100.0%)

That flamingo accurately describes how Rhi's brain and/or fic seems to work.

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Yes.
4 (14.3%)

Hell, yes!
10 (35.7%)

No.
0 (0.0%)

Probably not.
0 (0.0%)

I'll come back and change my answer to yes if I can stop laughing.
14 (50.0%)

Any other comments?

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Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: "It's Probably Me," Sting and Eric Clapton
Crossposts: http://gryphonrhi.livejournal.com/568273.html

You only want it for the registry cleaner. Do not do things like lose all your Firefox tabs, and log-in cookies, and all the 'in progress' files you'd pinned to Recent on Word.... That said, the following comments to myself come from hunting down and re-pinning files for Word:

( No, really, I have files about what? )

Hmm. Poll:

Poll #11715 So. About a hypothetical Avengers fic, which of course Coulson isn't in ::whistles innocently::

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Crossover with

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Death (Discworld)
2 (15.4%)

Death of Rats (DW)
1 (7.7%)

Death *and* Death of Rats (DW)
6 (46.2%)

Hades (Greek myth)
2 (15.4%)

Other (put in comments, please!)
2 (15.4%)

( Yet more 'No, really, I was writing what? Huh.' )

Right. I think I'm caught up. Gods, I hope so. See, this many plot bunnies is what happens when I'm tired enough to have ideas and too tired to write them. But in the meantime, I need to go finish some stories.

Current Mood: bemused
Crossposts: http://gryphonrhi.livejournal.com/543377.html

It occurs to me that I have a ton of stories appropriate to Halloween, everything from vampires to zombies to golems to ghosts to were-skunks. (Okay, yes, I probably should be ashamed of that last one, but oh well.) I used to do a yearly round-up with links to them by monster, but now that I mostly have my fic cross-posted to AO3, it occurs to me that I could do a collection there of monster/Halloween fics to have them all in one place. Which I have to admit, would be easier....

Poll #11615 So about a Halloween/monsters story collection...

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Should I do a Halloween stories collection?

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Yes
8 (40.0%)

Hell, yes!
4 (20.0%)

No
0 (0.0%)

Not if it's going to keep you from writing
3 (15.0%)

Up to you
3 (15.0%)

The ever-popular recurring (and thus probably undead) ticky box
2 (10.0%)

Also, if you're reading this on LJ and want to vote, I believe you *can* vote by signing in at DW with Open ID. Just use your LJ ID and password and specify temporary if you're feeling cautious today.

And all that said, back later. Off to write another story -- there's going to be four coming out damn near all at once, I think -- this one for

pentapus .

Current Mood: busy
Crossposts: http://gryphonrhi.livejournal.com/539643.html

The following poll brought to you courtesy of a fic where I have no idea if the body is in the road because he was murdered or just because he was stupid.... (Feel free to check as many boxes as apply.)

Poll #11381 Writing style, or maybe writing motivation

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How do *you* write stories?

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I have a beginning?
19 (50.0%)

I know how it ends?
14 (36.8%)

There's this scene, and I have to know how they got there or what happens after...
27 (71.1%)

The opening line ambushed me.
13 (34.2%)

Writing this crossover/pairing/scenario was a moral imperative.
20 (52.6%)

I have to find out how it ends!
6 (15.8%)

I signed up for a challenge.
18 (47.4%)

Somone gave me a plot bunny/good idea.
18 (47.4%)

A character wouldn't shut up.
21 (55.3%)

It's too neat a fandom not to go play.
8 (21.1%)

I wanted to cheer up and/or thank a friend.
9 (23.7%)

The ever popular, 'It seemed like a good idea at the time?'
20 (52.6%)

It's Methos' fault.
17 (44.7%)

It's [your nuisance character of choice here]'s fault.
11 (28.9%)

Other, to be explained in comments.
3 (7.9%)

Current Mood: amused
Crossposts: http://gryphonrhi.livejournal.com/535559.html

Major spoiler behind this cut.

( Avengers poll ahoy! )

Current Mood: cheerful
Crossposts: http://gryphonrhi.livejournal.com/522265.html

There was this birthday and then there was a bug, and then there was my idiot immune system's usual overreaction to any illness... Never mind. I just want to know: Is it just me, or do other people spend January catching up on everything that slid *madly* during the holidays?

Poll #9076 Holiday catch up

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Do you have to catch up after the holidays?

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Oh, yeah, are you kidding me?
12 (60.0%)

There's always a few things, yeah.
5 (25.0%)

Eh, no more than usual.
1 (5.0%)

Actually, I'm a little more caught up than usual but not ahead of the game.
1 (5.0%)

Nope. I am calm, collected, and organized.
1 (5.0%)

What are you catching up on?

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Familal obligations
7 (38.9%)

Fannish creating (art, fic, meta, recs, vids)
10 (55.6%)

Fannish devouring (vids, recs, meta, fic, art)
12 (66.7%)

Friends obligations
4 (22.2%)

Housework
15 (83.3%)

Paperwork
11 (61.1%)

Yardwork/house maintenance/delayed chores
11 (61.1%)

Other thing I forgot to mention or you think deserves specific mention
7 (38.9%)

ETA: Why do I only see more answers after I've posted? Please assume that 'Exercise' is under 'Other' in that poll! (At least, getting back into the old, good habits is on *my* list!)

ETFA: And 'Sleep' is now also covered under 'Other.'

Now I need to start catching back up on the Fannish Snowflake project, and fic to rec so that Firefox quits having trouble loading, plus fic to archive and edits for the due South/Buffy story I finished last night.... Later! By which I mean more posts soon, probably!

Current Mood: busy
Crossposts: http://gryphonrhi.livejournal.com/507410.html

With a hat tip to Devo for sending me this article.... (An interview of Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon by Lev Grossman, who recently did that very nice article on fanfiction. You know, the guy who actually asked us questions and then listened...)

"I saw a lovely analogy recently. Somebody said that writers are like otters. And otters are really hard to train. Dolphins are easy to train. They do a trick, you give them a fish, they do the trick again, you give them a fish. They will keep doing that trick until the end of time. Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different." -- Neil Gaiman, 2005

Yeah. This is so completely me. In fact...

Poll #8523 Writing types

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Using the analogy in the above quote, are you...

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...a dolphin?
1 (10.0%)

...an otter?
5 (50.0%)

...somewhere in between? (I have no idea what creature this would equate to, but if you do, tell me in the comments!)
2 (20.0%)

...some other creature entirely? (If so, explain, please!)
2 (20.0%)

Current Mood: drowsy
Crossposts: http://gryphonrhi.livejournal.com/492877.html

I've seen comments about "I even cleaned the bathroom rather than work on that fic." So why is it that now that the challenge fic is posted, NOW I'm cleaning the bathroom?

Poll #8377 No, really, what's up?

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You're cleaning the bathroom now because....

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...you let it slack while writing and can't stand it anymore/
3 (18.8%)

...you're stalling on writing extra fics for the challenge.
1 (6.2%)

...you're stalling on writing the next fic up on the list.
2 (12.5%)

...all of the above.
9 (56.2%)

...I shall tell you in the comments.
1 (6.2%)

I voted!

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Yes!
2 (12.5%)

No!
1 (6.2%)

Ticky box!
5 (31.2%)

Happy Halloween!
8 (50.0%)

Oh, well. Productive day: groceries and sundries shopped for, story posted, worked out at gym, tried to get car tags (have to go back tomorrow with one more piece of data), and now I'm cleaning the bathroom. But I do think the timing on this is pretty funny.

Current Mood: amused
Crossposts: http://gryphonrhi.livejournal.com/489264.html

1) Yesterday, when I went to the car to run errands, there was a dragonfly perched on the wall. Dead-center in front of the car, up over the hood in height, and waiting for it to warm up enough for him to fly off for the day. He was one of the big dragonflies for our area, too, probably 4.5 inches head to tail. That was just neat. I wish I'd gone back in for my camera. (I've had plenty of flies on the wall, the occasional cicada cast-shell, but never a dragonfly before!)

2) From today's Quotes of the Day: "An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery." - Walter Winchell

I read that and thought, "Well, you might as well! You're stuck there until help arrives, the lion gets bored, or the tree falls over." ::snickering:: Yeah. I might be an optimist.

3) I made a batch of blueberry muffins last night from a 'healthier' recipe - whole wheat flour, less sugar, Greek yogurt instead of plain milk, two cups of blueberries? (Yes, really, that's what it says.) It did a couple things that boggled me and make me think I'd better keep playing with the recipe, but they are filling, I'll say that. They even taste good, but I think that's more me adding the cinnamon and nutmeg that the recipe didn't call for.

The two boggling parts: This is the first time I've had a muffin recipe make *more* muffins than it said. Usually, it says it makes a dozen and I get 10, maybe 11. This said it made 12 and I got 18. That's just weird. (I like it, so I won't say it's wrong.) Also, that wasn't muffin batter; it had the consistency of whole wheat bread dough, or maybe biscotti. So, I'll have to play with it. (And maybe go over to half yogurt/half milk.) But it did lead me to some questions:

( A poll on following recipes )

Current Mood: sore
Crossposts: http://gryphonrhi.livejournal.com/476814.html

1700 words last night. I can probably crank out another 1500-2500 tonight, it's just a question of which words. So, a poll for anyone who sees it in the next hour or so:

[Poll #1287594]

Catch you later!

ETA: Two hours later, I'm pulling up files and putting on the horror mix. (And it was 1700 words last night, not 1500.) We shall see what we shall see. Thanks!!

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: "No Easy Rider," Jim Byrnes

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: "No Easy Rider," Jim Byrnes

thefourthvine is conducting a poll on people's fannish archtypes, both as we see ourselves and as others see us. Having already answered the poll where she asks how I see myself, I went and voted for how she looks to me, and now she'd like me to ask how I look to you

( Cut for long archtype poll )

And other than that, I'm writing (slowly) a Forever Knight fic, and I have a beta to finish, and a website to finish. ::sigh:: Sorry, folks, real life is still insane. Improving slowly, but yeah, still busy at odd intervals and long durations.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: "Mordred," Heather Dale

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: "Mordred," Heather Dale

Mind, it's only good 'til the betas start rolling back in for my

yuletide story, and I start fixing (and planning html code formatting) for that, but hey: suggestions taken.

[Poll #637493]

::giggling:: Don't take too long, though, or the first choice will win by default.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: cat purring in my lap

Mind, it's only good 'til the betas start rolling back in for my

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: cat purring in my lap

( Question about story index pages on websites: )

( Questions about stories in general, since I'm seeing discussions of this here and there.... )

And yes, for the curious, I think I finished that sex scene for Depth of Field (the next Southern Comfort fic). Good Lord, though -- Shades had no sex. This one, I think, is going to be another matter entirely. I'd almost rather write fight scenes, too.

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: "Hole In My Heart," Pierce Pettis

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: "Hole In My Heart," Pierce Pettis

Due to coding screw-ups, I'm fixing a lot of pages on my site. In the process, I'm slowly giving the overall site a new structure and am considering changing the design quite a bit. But I was curious about something, so I'm throwing a poll out there.

Apparently, you must have a LiveJournal account to vote (or so the FAQ says). If you want one so as to vote, leave comments in other people's journals, etc, the basic accounts *are* free. You can get one simply by going to Live Journal and signing up. (No, I have not noticed an increase in spam from this; one of the options when you set up User Info sets the code to keep spiders from harvesting your email address.)

Anyway. I'd appreciate votes and comments. If you'd rather not join LJ, please feel free to leave a comment. Thank you!

( Cut here, to keep the poll from clogging my friends' pages )

Thanks again!

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: "Cell Block Tango," Chicago soundtrack

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: "Cell Block Tango," Chicago soundtrack

Interstices & Liminal Spaces

I have a few stories. I have a few pages. Now we have Methos. Now we'll have a plan.

I suspect I know which way you guys would vote...

Note to self re: CCleaner

Halloween collection?

Writing question

Avengers poll. Major spoiler

It's like this...

Writing quote from Neil Gaiman

Probably not doing this in the right order...

I'm told 3 things make a post...

Quick Halloween question

Quick Halloween question

Fannish archtype poll

Fannish archtype poll

Hey, what is this thing called 'free time'?

Hey, what is this thing called 'free time'?

Pollses, my precious!

Pollses, my precious!

Slowly redesigning the Eyrie

Slowly redesigning the Eyrie

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