[Meme] 30 Days of Fanfiction -- questions 22-24

( 22 - Have you ever participated in a fest or a Big Bang? If so, write about your favorite experience in relation to one. If not, are there any you've thought about doing? And if not, why not? )

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( 23 - When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site? )

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( 24 - Betaing: how many betas do you like to use to make sure there are no major flaws in your fic? Do you have a beta horror story or a beta dream story? )

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My local library does not, apparently, have a copy of Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, which annoys me because I specifically went there this afternoon to find a copy and I want to read it as background research for my Femgen fic. (And also because it is apparently a classic and entertaining in its own right.) I have ordered a copy from Barnes & Noble, because there is no point in having a membership discount card if I don't use it now and then. *wry*

[Meme] 30 Days of Fanfiction -- questions 25-27

( 25 - Music: do you listen to music while you write? Do you make playlists to get into a certain mood to write your fic? Do you need noise in general, or do you need it completely quiet? )

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( 26 - What is the oddest (or most entertaining) thing you've had to research for a fic? )

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( 27 - Where is your favorite place to write, and do you write by hand or on the computer? )

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Today I was moderately productive: I paid my rent and credit card bills, organized and filed a bunch of financial papers, and opened and dealt with the sheaf of junk mail and charitable pitches that had been collecting all month. It's always a good feeling to look at the cleared area on my coffee table and the cascade of paper in my recycling and know I don't need to deal with that until next month. :-)

At work, I inventoried the maps and decided we needed to order new copies of the Mapless Map (which is exactly what it says on the tin -- a listing of how to get to various places around Ithaca without having to trace the route visually on a schematic)... except once I found the consignment forms and the record of past orders, I ran in to the rather baffling fact there's an order dated January of this year but our inventory level never went up, which means the order never came in -- or perhaps was never actually placed. So I clipped all the documents together and left a note asking PM what was going on, since the last order form is in her handwriting.

Tomorrow I get to work with BW instead of MS, boo hiss. Firstly, BW tends to annoy me in general, and secondly, MS and I have Monday evenings down to a science (rather like ET and I used to), whereas with BW I always feel half a step out of rhythm. Oh well, I am sure MS can use a break!