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[tencrush]

In honour of NaNoWriMo, I am going to experiment for a month with NOT WRITING A NOVEL, because that's probably far better for everyone concerned. What I will be doing, is experimenting with going FRIENDS ONLY on this journal. I get a lot of anonymous comments, I know, and I'm sorry for all of you anons, I'd rather keep everything open, but frankly, I can't be fucking bothered anymore.

If you've friended me and I've friended you back but I actually haven't ever heard from you since in the form of comments on this journal, I'm cutting you off, I've had enough of lurkers as well.

As you were.

Comments

[jo02]

I have been reading and commenting here for a while.
I had tagged you rather than friended because I prefer stuff going to my mailbox rather than my flist - but I am friending you now - please don't cut me off!
I promise never to lurk, and to definitely keep commenting.

ETA - Thank you!

[tencrush]

No problem. :)

ETA a smiley fayce because I'm coming across rather grumpy when I'm not. :)

[offer-of-hope.livejournal.com]

I do the same thing. I never use my friends page, really, just email notifiers, but added you, you grumpy, interesting person, you.

[offer-of-hope.livejournal.com]

bwahah - the "grumpy" was for ten, lol.

[jo02]

It's kinda like the separation of Church and State for me *g*
I try as much as possible have the people I chat with on my flist, and everything of a fic/meta/icons/art nature to my inbox. That way I can keep up more easily with what my friends are doing in one place, and then pop over to the inbox when I want to read fic and stuff.
It may also sound a little rude but it's not meant that way - I can delete things from my inbox when I've read/looked at it and hopefully commented on it, but if it's on my flist it stays there forever, which I don't like.
It works pretty much most of the time.

[qthelights.livejournal.com]

thanks for friending :) i'm new to this fandom, relatively speaking, and really enjoying meeting all the new lovely people such as yourself :)

[scifigirl.livejournal.com]

I too am doing the world a favor and not writing a novel this month. It can be NaNoWriANoMo or something.

[littlepunkryo.livejournal.com]

It seems like a lot of people are doing that lately. I think fandom is general - all fandoms - have been extremely volatile lately for some reason. I don't really see much of what happens, but I can tell going down my flist that things have been happening.

[tigercheetah.livejournal.com]

It's a shame your going friends only.

I've always found your posts entertaining and truthful, especially in regards to Jack/Ianto and Torchwood/Who in general.

[tencrush]

Like I said, it's an experiment. The stuff I write about Torchwood and Who is something I write in order to be able to discuss it with people, and going Friends-only kind of makes that impossible, so I don't really know what to do about that. On the other hand, I'm sick of being bitched at and bitched about and everybody can just fuck off as far as I'm concerned, so there's that. The latter is weighing more heavily at the moment, but then there's not a lot going on on the TW/Who front to be meta-ing over, I'll probably change my mind next year when there is and be accused of being a feckless drama queen. Them's the fandom breaks, apparently.

[wiley-nilly.livejournal.com]

Cue music: Thank You For Being a Friend....

Cheers!

[venusinchains.livejournal.com]

I've been hanging out here for the excellent Torchwood meta (however it's intended). I'd love to stay.

I've signed up for NaNo three years running and written all of three paragraphs for it. It seems the world is safe from my book-inna-month. (Oh shit - it's already November...)

[hel-bee.livejournal.com]

I too will not be writing a novel for Nano... (although I was feeling particular pedantic I would say that 50K words is not novel length - that's a novella) ... neither will I be posting a ticker of how many words I have not written!


:)

[tencrush]

I usually spend the other 11 months of the year rather half-arsedly not writing a novel, but I find that in November, I can really focus on the task. It helps a lot knowing that so many other people like yourself are going through the same thing and we can all support each other and encourage each other to not write a novel together.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

Lord yes, I love November for just this reason.

I cherish the opportunity to not explore meaningful themes. I actually believe that this year I can manage to wring about minus-70,000 words out of the idea I don't have. Very challenging!

[mbs-library.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Hel! It's not a novel. I've been on the inside-side of publishing enough to know that. You don't know how many of the small presses hate December when they get hit with all the so-called novels from NaNo that people want published.

*waves at Ten* Hiya, again. Have a hug and some Bailey's Irish Creme. Sounds like you need a drink. *grin*

MB

[used_songs]

I'm not writing one, too! I'm glad we can all be here to support each other and write encouraging posts for each other ... just so we can keep each other on track.

That kind of stuff is important. :)

[bandgeek01.livejournal.com]

Well I comment a lot. I may have even gotten you in trouble with people b/c I asked you to post something political. My bad for that one.

But I love reading your stuff. Always will.


And to clarify, I'm one of the nutters attempting NaNo.


Nicole

[mslauren2930.livejournal.com]

If you've friended me and I've friended you back but I actually haven't ever heard from you since in the form of comments on this journal, I'm cutting you off, I've had enough of lurkers as well.

I know the feeling *all* too well. I'm glad you've stayed on my flist because I want to be able to celebrate Obama's victory on Tuesday with you, since one of your last political posts was so pessimistic about his winning. hope! :)

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Fandom fame is HARD.

And yay, thanks for the keep! (Assuming it's not just that you haven't gotten around to ditching me yet). I always find you interesting, even if I don't always agree.

And kudos on the non-NaNo idea - hope it takes off. I, for one, will be committing to it wholeheartedly.

[alba17.livejournal.com]

That icon's hilarious!

[alba17.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm doing the same experiment of not writing a novel this month! Although instead I'm going to do the Nat'l Blog Posting Month (not on LJ though, I'm sure you're relieved), what the hell, that only requires me to spout my opinions, which is no problem at all. (link to my blog is on my page, even though I'm sure no one's interested - it's called crabbyanne). You could make this LJ public when there's more to comment on in the TW/DW world. Sorry you're getting too much bitching, etc. I love your commentary!

[cirrocumulus.livejournal.com]

UNPOPULAR OPINION TIEM:

Personally, I've never thought that NaNoWriMo was that fantastic an idea in the first place. I'm sure it inspires a lot of good writers who have been sitting on good novel ideas to actually sit down and write it, but form what I've seen it mostly just inspires a lot of craptastic writers who really shouldn't be writing anything to write that truly dreadful novel they've been thinking about. It just seems to me like if you were really serious about writing a novel you would have already done so instead of waiting for this internet-organized occasion; plus, I find the word and time limit silly.

...But that's just me being a dickhead.

[alba17.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a weird idea too. The mere production of 50,000 words in a month seems a little meaningless and not a guarantee of quality. I guess people are mainly doing it for the personal challenge.

[kalliopeia.livejournal.com]

The idea is to free yourself from that bitchy little self-editor that insists that every single word be perfect before you move on to the next one. The word count is pretty arbitrary, I think, but the time limit makes you set aside perfectionism and just get the thing down, because there's no other way you're going to get 50,000 words written in thirty days. It's actually pretty useful if you can do it, as it gives you a real sense of accomplishment and maybe even something to work with as the basis for something that might really be publishable someday.

The idea is not to barf up a 50,000 word novel and pop it into the mail to some poor unsuspecting slush pile reader on Dec 1st, though I'm sure lots of people do that.

[cirrocumulus.livejournal.com]

I suppose I get that idea of trying to free your creativity, but maybe I just disagree with it because that's not how I work at all. It usually takes me about an hour to write 500 words because I do sit there at my computer spending several minutes trying to figure out how to phrase the idea I'm trying to express, and though I suppose there is merit in freeing yourself of that self-editing, but when I write I usually feel like the perfect phrase I'm searching for is there, I just need to take the time to stitch it together and I'm not willing to just plow ahead and throw anything down to meet a time limit. You can always go back and edit but you might still miss that perfect phrase you're looking for because you're not really in the creative moment anymore.

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

'but I actually haven't ever heard from you since in the form of comments on this journal, I'm cutting you off.'
I hope you're not cutting me off. I usually respond to comments OTHERS have made about your posts.

Since I never been able to manage anything longer drabble, I won't be writing one either. I guess I could write 5,000 drabbles. Don't worry, I'm joking.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

I think you should sponsor NaNoPieMo which can either be a more of exhorting GDL to eat no more pie or a month of pie-free commentary, your choice of course.

[21stcenturyood.livejournal.com]

Hiya, sorry. Lurker here. I knew I shouldn't have been reading your page and I am really sorry, but I stumbled onto it and was really interested and kept coming back. I was mainly still waiting for the second part of that Jack Ianto thing you did with the funny picures and captions before the summer. I didn't have a livejournal account until last week and I only set one up to send some dopey obsessive fanmail to Invisible Lift (I love him). I wanted to say hi to you too but I was too shy and wanted to wait till you were in a better mood. I could tell you have been having a tough time lately. Anyway, I am really sorry for reading over your shoulder as it were but I am a bit of a Torchwood addict and I needed a fix of funny meta and pics etc.
I am very sad that you are going friends only as I loved your stuff but i understand that it must be crap to get bitched about. I don't understand why people are being like that. Hope you feel better when it is done, this is only a little hobby eh. It shouldn't upset you. I only obssess about Jack/Ianto/TW in general really to take my mind off real life, job, family etc. If its the same for you then it is daft that people are upsetting you like this when the whole fandom should just be an excuse to play around with ideas knowing that it doesn't matter a jot. Anyway, rambling here. Thanks for all the cool postings that you have let all us weird non LJ people read. Lots of love, 21st Century Ood

[tencrush]

No, no, don't get me wrong, everybody's more than welcome to come and read and stay for the meta or the luls or the pretty or whatever they want. I write and post stuff because I want people to read it, there'd be no point otherwise. I've just been kind of casual about friending back anyone who's friended me, without even asking for so much as an introduction, and I now have quite a few people on my friendslist who have never actually commented on my journal. I post personal stuff under friendslock now to people I don't actually know, and I have a suspicion that the anon bitching is coming from inside my flist so I feel really stupid for allowing that. If you say hi and ask me to friend you, I'll be more than happy to do so, I just feel the need to restrict my friendslist to people I have talked to more than "not at all".

And God, yes, I'll finish that Jack and Ianto retcon thing one of these days even if it kills me.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

The one thing I never got about NaWrwhatever is how people find the time to write a 50,000 novel. Don't they sleep for a month or something?

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether I've commented to you or not, I keep meaning to - I meant to with the recent John B. stuff cos your entries felt like a refreshing take on actors and the parts they play on and off the stage...

I'm completely on the fringes of Dr Who/Torchwood cos it feels like it gets very intense and I probably lurrve the shows more than the other fans.

[crossoverman.livejournal.com]

Here's a comment to say that I comment, but I'm not sure how much I actually comment here or whether I just enjoy reading your posts.

Comment.

[travellingone.livejournal.com]

Um... I've only recently started reading your blog (mostly for pie-status) and I know we're not friends, but I'm not horrific and would love to continue reading your blog.

May I friend you?