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Wow, it is raining hard out there. We've had nearly 3 inches over yesterday and last night, and I think by the end of the day might very well reach the 5 inches predicted. At least I won't have to water plants for a while?
Thoughts for today:
a) Pretty satisfied on the whole with the Person of Interest plot arc, though I have to say: that is more Grace Hendricks, in one episode, than we've had over all the others combined, and she was just as gutsy and yet out of her depth, standing up to the forces of Decima, as I could have wanted, and then they send her off to Italy? (Which I suspect was the Machine's doing rather than Harold's, though really it could have been either of them.) I am half-tempted to write a fic in which she tells Fusco, on the way to the airport, that she's figured out what's going on and is planning to go stay with friends in Newark until Harold is rescued. Anyway, that was a lovely moment, the prisoner exchange and his catching of her arm, and I think the blindfold was as much symbolism as it was plot convenience, and dammit, I'm having ideas now… I am very much looking forward to the final two episodes.
b) I have wished George a happy birthday in the fairly public arena of my author blog, thus further committing myself to dorkdom.
c) I've expressed this thought here before, and really it's still amusing rather than perturbing me, but that whole "fanfic as marketing strategy" thing is pretty much a bust. I've had a much bigger response, in terms of actually buying, reading, and recommending my books, among my real-life friends than among the people I've connected to in fandom - many of you reading this being the exceptions, of course. What I failed to understand is that there's no easy way to connect the two spheres, and also that reading someone's original work is a big leap from reading fanfic, over a larger gap than $4.99 represents. I still get a kudos email every day, and recently had a new reader go through all of my POI and a lot of my Vorkosigan stories, leaving kudos on each one, so obviously they appreciate my writing - but there's no way, in the context of AO3, to reach that person and say "by the way, I have these novels," and if there was, no way to know whether they'd be interested in reading about characters and situations they aren't already familiar with. (I do have a link to my website in my AO3 profile, and in my DW, LJ, and Tumblr profiles, but who reads profiles?) But I think there are a few people who'd decide to take the chance if they were aware it existed, and word of mouth is still the only way that's going to happen, because otherwise we seem to have sturdy barriers between fannish and original work.
d) However, I am very glad that (on my sister's recommendation) I used ifttt.com to work out automatic posting from my author blog to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr - and so far it's working, unlike Wordpress's Publicize feature. Should I send the posts here as well?
Thoughts for today:
a) Pretty satisfied on the whole with the Person of Interest plot arc, though I have to say: that is more Grace Hendricks, in one episode, than we've had over all the others combined, and she was just as gutsy and yet out of her depth, standing up to the forces of Decima, as I could have wanted, and then they send her off to Italy? (Which I suspect was the Machine's doing rather than Harold's, though really it could have been either of them.) I am half-tempted to write a fic in which she tells Fusco, on the way to the airport, that she's figured out what's going on and is planning to go stay with friends in Newark until Harold is rescued. Anyway, that was a lovely moment, the prisoner exchange and his catching of her arm, and I think the blindfold was as much symbolism as it was plot convenience, and dammit, I'm having ideas now… I am very much looking forward to the final two episodes.
b) I have wished George a happy birthday in the fairly public arena of my author blog, thus further committing myself to dorkdom.
c) I've expressed this thought here before, and really it's still amusing rather than perturbing me, but that whole "fanfic as marketing strategy" thing is pretty much a bust. I've had a much bigger response, in terms of actually buying, reading, and recommending my books, among my real-life friends than among the people I've connected to in fandom - many of you reading this being the exceptions, of course. What I failed to understand is that there's no easy way to connect the two spheres, and also that reading someone's original work is a big leap from reading fanfic, over a larger gap than $4.99 represents. I still get a kudos email every day, and recently had a new reader go through all of my POI and a lot of my Vorkosigan stories, leaving kudos on each one, so obviously they appreciate my writing - but there's no way, in the context of AO3, to reach that person and say "by the way, I have these novels," and if there was, no way to know whether they'd be interested in reading about characters and situations they aren't already familiar with. (I do have a link to my website in my AO3 profile, and in my DW, LJ, and Tumblr profiles, but who reads profiles?) But I think there are a few people who'd decide to take the chance if they were aware it existed, and word of mouth is still the only way that's going to happen, because otherwise we seem to have sturdy barriers between fannish and original work.
d) However, I am very glad that (on my sister's recommendation) I used ifttt.com to work out automatic posting from my author blog to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr - and so far it's working, unlike Wordpress's Publicize feature. Should I send the posts here as well?
