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It isn't over yet, but I'll be busy with houseguests from Friday onwards, so...
What did I do in 2005?
I'm not going to cheat and look at the calendar, which means I have to rely on memory. Or I could make stuff up; that comes more naturally to me these days anyway.
What happened?
Something must have happened early on in the year, but damned if I can remember it. Didn't we have a big kerfuffle in March? Oh, I'm going to have to check, this is ridiculous...
Yes. We did.
And there have been a few others, so same old, same old there.
In May![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wesleysgirl and I finished our co-written novel in five weeks (110,00 words, practically qualifying us for NaNoWriMo but even writing that word gives me quivers of dread, so moving on..). And we sold it! Yes! It's coming out next year, along with a short story by me.
Because this was the year when I started writing original fic. Definitely. Absolutely. And I sort of did, but without WG to push me with tags, my solo stuff has been languishing because fanfic is a seductive little seductress, she really is, and I keep getting ideas for fics and we all know where that leads.
It was also the year where I swapped fandoms with an abruptness that still has me feeling slightly shell-shocked.
It was weird. One minute I was perfectly happy writing Buffy/Angel and smiling aimiably at a f-list that was unaccountably babbling about Sheppard and McKay and thinking, 'Who?', the next I was reading a Jack/Daniel fic bybyrne and finding out that Space showed Stargate SG-1, which in eight years had barely registered with me, apart from the movie, at 1.00/8.00 daily. So I flipped it on, watched Absolute Power, was totally lost (not the best one to start with) and that was August 1, I think, and last night I watched the episode I needed to see to have watched them all; could've done it sooner, but I was saving it. 8.5 plus 1.5 seasons in 4 and a bit months.
Oh, yes. Obsession. And don't my family know it because I'm awful when I fall in love; passionate, dedicated and enthusiastic.
Luckily for them, it doesn't happen often. Fandom-wise, I guess I've had three; Heinlein, which got me onto the 'net, Buffy, which got me writing, and Stargate which has distracted me from writing, in some ways.
Don't regret any of them.
I wasn't sure what to expect from my f-list when I stopped writing Buffy/Angel. Oh, I was still involved in No Limits, andlovesbitca and I had a Wes/Faith/Giles we were working on, but to all intents and purposes I wasn't providing what most people were here for and yet, five months later, you're all still here ::clings tightly::.
I'd also gone through a rocky patch in, umm, April? Yes; because it wasn't long before my birthday in early May. I came as close to deleting my LJ as I ever had. If you were here, you know why; enough said. Not my finest hour and what had been a home/haven/ safe place suddenly felt like somewhere I didn't belong... okay, I'm getting upset just thinking about how I felt those few days. Sheesh. Get a grip, Jane.
Anyway. I look at my f-list now and it's... out of control. Heh. 539 reading this (I don't know why; notice, please, that I haven't friended me ;-)) and I have 74 comms friended. That's a lot of scrolling and posting. Maybe I should add LJ to my list of obsessions, because I start and end my day with all of you. You get me pre-coffee and post-cocoa :-)
I've been on LJ for about two and a half years now and still have that 'brave new world that has such people in it' feeling because you're all so darn nice, you really are. I turn here for help on so many things.
Last night when Eleanor was practically in tears over her French homework (very difficult; I was out of my depth totally and she's only ten, dammit, in two years I'll be of no help whatsoever)I found myself saying earnestly, "It's okay, sweetie; Mommy has lots of people friended who speak French and can translate this fascinating story about Sylvain and the pine tree that sheltered him from the hailstones of my aunt."
And the tech stuff... well. You're there, always, when I need it. And I might not remember much of the year, but I rememberyasminke helping with the infamous cut and paste problem and my visiting parents being astonished that someone I'd never met, who lived in Australia, was working on my broken computer in Canada.
I knew already that the section of Buffy fandom I was in was a wonderful place with incredibly helpful, generous people, but stepping into a new fandom with an insanely complex canon was daunting. Exciting, though. Challenging, even. I can't get over how kind everyone's been there, as well. Even when I blithely posted drabbles with canon errors on a par with making Giles have a Welsh accent there was no shunning. Nope. I totally deserved it, but, no. People were supportive, gave feedback, offered help, beta read, recc'd me... :;is pathetically grateful::
To sum up:
Love you all.
2006 can bring it on.
::hugs::
What did I do in 2005?
I'm not going to cheat and look at the calendar, which means I have to rely on memory. Or I could make stuff up; that comes more naturally to me these days anyway.
What happened?
Something must have happened early on in the year, but damned if I can remember it. Didn't we have a big kerfuffle in March? Oh, I'm going to have to check, this is ridiculous...
Yes. We did.
And there have been a few others, so same old, same old there.
In May
wesleysgirl and I finished our co-written novel in five weeks (110,00 words, practically qualifying us for NaNoWriMo but even writing that word gives me quivers of dread, so moving on..). And we sold it! Yes! It's coming out next year, along with a short story by me.Because this was the year when I started writing original fic. Definitely. Absolutely. And I sort of did, but without WG to push me with tags, my solo stuff has been languishing because fanfic is a seductive little seductress, she really is, and I keep getting ideas for fics and we all know where that leads.
It was also the year where I swapped fandoms with an abruptness that still has me feeling slightly shell-shocked.
It was weird. One minute I was perfectly happy writing Buffy/Angel and smiling aimiably at a f-list that was unaccountably babbling about Sheppard and McKay and thinking, 'Who?', the next I was reading a Jack/Daniel fic by
byrne and finding out that Space showed Stargate SG-1, which in eight years had barely registered with me, apart from the movie, at 1.00/8.00 daily. So I flipped it on, watched Absolute Power, was totally lost (not the best one to start with) and that was August 1, I think, and last night I watched the episode I needed to see to have watched them all; could've done it sooner, but I was saving it. 8.5 plus 1.5 seasons in 4 and a bit months. Oh, yes. Obsession. And don't my family know it because I'm awful when I fall in love; passionate, dedicated and enthusiastic.
Luckily for them, it doesn't happen often. Fandom-wise, I guess I've had three; Heinlein, which got me onto the 'net, Buffy, which got me writing, and Stargate which has distracted me from writing, in some ways.
Don't regret any of them.
I wasn't sure what to expect from my f-list when I stopped writing Buffy/Angel. Oh, I was still involved in No Limits, and
lovesbitca and I had a Wes/Faith/Giles we were working on, but to all intents and purposes I wasn't providing what most people were here for and yet, five months later, you're all still here ::clings tightly::. I'd also gone through a rocky patch in, umm, April? Yes; because it wasn't long before my birthday in early May. I came as close to deleting my LJ as I ever had. If you were here, you know why; enough said. Not my finest hour and what had been a home/haven/ safe place suddenly felt like somewhere I didn't belong... okay, I'm getting upset just thinking about how I felt those few days. Sheesh. Get a grip, Jane.
Anyway. I look at my f-list now and it's... out of control. Heh. 539 reading this (I don't know why; notice, please, that I haven't friended me ;-)) and I have 74 comms friended. That's a lot of scrolling and posting. Maybe I should add LJ to my list of obsessions, because I start and end my day with all of you. You get me pre-coffee and post-cocoa :-)
I've been on LJ for about two and a half years now and still have that 'brave new world that has such people in it' feeling because you're all so darn nice, you really are. I turn here for help on so many things.
Last night when Eleanor was practically in tears over her French homework (very difficult; I was out of my depth totally and she's only ten, dammit, in two years I'll be of no help whatsoever)I found myself saying earnestly, "It's okay, sweetie; Mommy has lots of people friended who speak French and can translate this fascinating story about Sylvain and the pine tree that sheltered him from the hailstones of my aunt."
And the tech stuff... well. You're there, always, when I need it. And I might not remember much of the year, but I remember
yasminke helping with the infamous cut and paste problem and my visiting parents being astonished that someone I'd never met, who lived in Australia, was working on my broken computer in Canada.I knew already that the section of Buffy fandom I was in was a wonderful place with incredibly helpful, generous people, but stepping into a new fandom with an insanely complex canon was daunting. Exciting, though. Challenging, even. I can't get over how kind everyone's been there, as well. Even when I blithely posted drabbles with canon errors on a par with making Giles have a Welsh accent there was no shunning. Nope. I totally deserved it, but, no. People were supportive, gave feedback, offered help, beta read, recc'd me... :;is pathetically grateful::
To sum up:
Love you all.
2006 can bring it on.
::hugs::