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The longish fic I posted back in July, I Shatter, has been nominated for a Best Angst TSA over at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sv_awardz. Which I'm thoroughly gobsmacked by, and thank you so much to whoever nominated me. I get kind of wide-eyed and blinky when I think about it, not to mention blushy and tongue-tied -- which is why it's taken me several days to even post about it. I'm really incredibly flattered.
And I've gone and bought myself SV season 5 on DVD, and thanks to a generous friend I'm getting to download S6 episodes and talk about them as they air, which sort of kicks this whole fandom thing up to another level. And some other generous friends have made me more icons than I can hold with my free LJ account, but I want to be able to use them all, and I want to be able to grab some of the beautiful ones you amazingly talented folks have been putting up in batches for anyone who wants them. So I've decided to go ahead and spend the $20 or whatever it is to upgrade to a paid account, so I can run and play with the real fen.
Also I'm finally going to archive I Shatter over at the SSA, and I'm going to cross-post my most recent fic at some comms so people know that it's there -- today, if the rain holds off long enough. (Satellite internet is not without its drawbacks.) Meanwhile, as I work on my book, I'm becoming more and more aware of the debt I owe to fanfic, which has been the equivalent of an intensive seminar in writing plot. Which I never expected (hell, I thought I was just here for the porn), but I think I've learned more about plot in 9 months of reading fic than I did in 30 years of reading literary fiction, not to mention 2 years of grad school. My writing has gotten much stronger as a result, and I can't thank you folks enough.
Basically, in a bunch of different ways it feels like I've been living out of a suitcase ever since I got this LJ, and it's becoming ever clearer to me that I like it here and I should stay, so it's time to unpack. And maybe decorate a little. Heck, maybe I'll even throw myself an LJ-warming party when I feel more settled in.
Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you to everybody who's made me feel so welcome here. You are fabulous and creative and talented and charming people and I'll stop before I embarrass myself.
sv_awardz. Which I'm thoroughly gobsmacked by, and thank you so much to whoever nominated me. I get kind of wide-eyed and blinky when I think about it, not to mention blushy and tongue-tied -- which is why it's taken me several days to even post about it. I'm really incredibly flattered.And I've gone and bought myself SV season 5 on DVD, and thanks to a generous friend I'm getting to download S6 episodes and talk about them as they air, which sort of kicks this whole fandom thing up to another level. And some other generous friends have made me more icons than I can hold with my free LJ account, but I want to be able to use them all, and I want to be able to grab some of the beautiful ones you amazingly talented folks have been putting up in batches for anyone who wants them. So I've decided to go ahead and spend the $20 or whatever it is to upgrade to a paid account, so I can run and play with the real fen.
Also I'm finally going to archive I Shatter over at the SSA, and I'm going to cross-post my most recent fic at some comms so people know that it's there -- today, if the rain holds off long enough. (Satellite internet is not without its drawbacks.) Meanwhile, as I work on my book, I'm becoming more and more aware of the debt I owe to fanfic, which has been the equivalent of an intensive seminar in writing plot. Which I never expected (hell, I thought I was just here for the porn), but I think I've learned more about plot in 9 months of reading fic than I did in 30 years of reading literary fiction, not to mention 2 years of grad school. My writing has gotten much stronger as a result, and I can't thank you folks enough.
Basically, in a bunch of different ways it feels like I've been living out of a suitcase ever since I got this LJ, and it's becoming ever clearer to me that I like it here and I should stay, so it's time to unpack. And maybe decorate a little. Heck, maybe I'll even throw myself an LJ-warming party when I feel more settled in.
Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you to everybody who's made me feel so welcome here. You are fabulous and creative and talented and charming people and I'll stop before I embarrass myself.
