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Going Googling
You know, you can find the weirdest things when you put your own name into a Google search field.
Like this article. I found it a couple of months ago, and my jaw was on the floor for days. I got mentioned in a newspaper! By pseudonym! For a parody of a Robert Frost poem I wrote in Lit class years ago! *boggle*
Today I found, to my surprise, that someone's been archiving my story "The Five Stages of Grief" at at Wes/Fred archive called A Whole New World since I started posting it on FF.net back in May. Whoa. I am completely pleased by the fact that someone likes my characterization enough to snag the story for their archive, but I really wish they'd emailed me first to let me know. I would have told them, "I'd love that, but please wait, as I'm not entirely happy with it yet." Hm. I hope they got my email today; I'll gladly zip over the text files of the "authoritative version" I've been posting here if they need me to.
Speaking of. *cracking knuckles* Better get back to work on polishing off Chapter Five. *sigh* I can't believe I actually thought, when I started this fic-writing thing two years ago, that I knew what being a writer is all about; I learn new things all the time, and I'm pretty sure this is my best work yet. I'm almost reluctant to actually release it onto the 'Net, because it will mean it is finally done, and not my baby anymore. Don't worry, though. I'm not that evil!
Like this article. I found it a couple of months ago, and my jaw was on the floor for days. I got mentioned in a newspaper! By pseudonym! For a parody of a Robert Frost poem I wrote in Lit class years ago! *boggle*
Today I found, to my surprise, that someone's been archiving my story "The Five Stages of Grief" at at Wes/Fred archive called A Whole New World since I started posting it on FF.net back in May. Whoa. I am completely pleased by the fact that someone likes my characterization enough to snag the story for their archive, but I really wish they'd emailed me first to let me know. I would have told them, "I'd love that, but please wait, as I'm not entirely happy with it yet." Hm. I hope they got my email today; I'll gladly zip over the text files of the "authoritative version" I've been posting here if they need me to.
Speaking of. *cracking knuckles* Better get back to work on polishing off Chapter Five. *sigh* I can't believe I actually thought, when I started this fic-writing thing two years ago, that I knew what being a writer is all about; I learn new things all the time, and I'm pretty sure this is my best work yet. I'm almost reluctant to actually release it onto the 'Net, because it will mean it is finally done, and not my baby anymore. Don't worry, though. I'm not that evil!