Well, huh. I just outed myself as a fanfic writer on my garden blog.
One of my goals for this year (preferably for early this year) is to get my online self organized. The Dreamwidth![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
hedda62 is part of that, though I'm going to hang onto the LJ as well. I have just done a major flist purge on LJ - people who don't seem to be there anymore or with whom I have not communicated in a long time - and I'll be gradually getting around to adding to my DW reading list (feel free to add me to yours). For now I'll be cross-posting, and where others cross-post I may end up reading them on one site or the other but not both. We'll see where that ends up.
I'm comfortable now with linking to the garden blog here, but not the other way around - if someone really wants to find my LJ/DW posts, they can, but I'm not going to point them out to the world at large. I have a Facebook account which I use sporadically and have been sharing my Rogue Eggplant blog posts to (though not this latest one because for some reason FB thinks it has a nasty link in it, which when examined appears to tie only to a couple of Picasa-saved images from my other gardening blog. I dunno, maybe it'll fix itself later). I'm not at all keen on having anything from LJ/DW end up on FB, nor would I link AO3 fics directly there, though doing it indirectly through Rogue Eggplant works for me. (You will note that the pieces I link to are the G-rated ones, not because of the rating per se but because of the gardening content. It's not as though someone couldn't get from there to "Imperial Bedrooms," however. *shrugs* The novels, which I hope to have out in the world someday, have more graphic stuff in them.)
It's all down to figuring out what I want to say about myself and how that gets presented. I suspect I should be using Facebook more, but I can't decide yet whether it's the place to note boring things about my kids or more of a professional second home (the first home being yet to be determined). Frankly, I don't do well with short-form expression (I am not on Twitter at all and hope never to be) and so deciding what dinky little things to post on FB is not a priority. But everyone else is there, blah blah. I have relatively few FB friends because I tend to accept offers rather than initiate them; why ask people to be my friends if I'm not giving them any content (aside from that of another site entirely)? But I could expand my circle a lot if I put my mind to it.
So, cautious integration is the watchword (or two watchwords), and perhaps judicious use of the short form while clinging to lovely verbose blogs and journals, and yeah I really do need an author site.
And more DW icons; must upload those.
One of my goals for this year (preferably for early this year) is to get my online self organized. The Dreamwidth
hedda62 is part of that, though I'm going to hang onto the LJ as well. I have just done a major flist purge on LJ - people who don't seem to be there anymore or with whom I have not communicated in a long time - and I'll be gradually getting around to adding to my DW reading list (feel free to add me to yours). For now I'll be cross-posting, and where others cross-post I may end up reading them on one site or the other but not both. We'll see where that ends up.I'm comfortable now with linking to the garden blog here, but not the other way around - if someone really wants to find my LJ/DW posts, they can, but I'm not going to point them out to the world at large. I have a Facebook account which I use sporadically and have been sharing my Rogue Eggplant blog posts to (though not this latest one because for some reason FB thinks it has a nasty link in it, which when examined appears to tie only to a couple of Picasa-saved images from my other gardening blog. I dunno, maybe it'll fix itself later). I'm not at all keen on having anything from LJ/DW end up on FB, nor would I link AO3 fics directly there, though doing it indirectly through Rogue Eggplant works for me. (You will note that the pieces I link to are the G-rated ones, not because of the rating per se but because of the gardening content. It's not as though someone couldn't get from there to "Imperial Bedrooms," however. *shrugs* The novels, which I hope to have out in the world someday, have more graphic stuff in them.)
It's all down to figuring out what I want to say about myself and how that gets presented. I suspect I should be using Facebook more, but I can't decide yet whether it's the place to note boring things about my kids or more of a professional second home (the first home being yet to be determined). Frankly, I don't do well with short-form expression (I am not on Twitter at all and hope never to be) and so deciding what dinky little things to post on FB is not a priority. But everyone else is there, blah blah. I have relatively few FB friends because I tend to accept offers rather than initiate them; why ask people to be my friends if I'm not giving them any content (aside from that of another site entirely)? But I could expand my circle a lot if I put my mind to it.
So, cautious integration is the watchword (or two watchwords), and perhaps judicious use of the short form while clinging to lovely verbose blogs and journals, and yeah I really do need an author site.
And more DW icons; must upload those.
