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[fahye]

Yesterday I discovered that nobody watching my ficblog is interested in my original fiction, so I probably won't post any of it there again. Good to know.

(Er, if there were some kind of font in which I could write those last sentences so that they didn't come out as passive-aggressive and sullenly entitled, they would be IN THAT FONT. I'm not actually upset. People watch ficblogs of writers who are in their fandoms. It was an experiment! That's all.)

Today I have a myriad of wonderful time-wasting choices:
- I could repeat yesterday's feat of 9km on the exercise bike while watching S4 West Wing
- I could continue reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon (Alan Turing & math porn & wartime cryptography HELLO <333)
- I could start my planned reread of all eleven volumes of Mike Carey's Lucifer
- or I could keep plodding away at the heist AU (which has now passed 10K words as a whole document even though the Next Chapter still has quite a long way to go, because my attempt at this linear writing thing is not going so well)

Or I could study.

Hahahahahaha.

FINALLY, and this is quite important: if you've got the time and the interest, would you mind dropping me a comment telling me if you're planning on (or already have begun!) using Dreamwidth, and why? And if I should be hopping aboard? I know the basic premise of the site, but it seems that a lot of people are planning to use Dw for separate blogging projects instead of uprooting entirely.

Comments

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I would pay for DW but I would like at least one ... the prospect of completely uprooting is kind of scary to me but if people allow that to stop them there's no point at all, is there? Though because of my Robespierre impulses I'd much rather erase my existing journal than have it (re-)archived. Even thinking about that gives me the heebie-jeebies.

[ristrettoette.livejournal.com]

Um, I have read Cryptonomicon about nine times; it is kind of the best math thing ever.

[kyrie1618.livejournal.com]

Cryptonomicon is love and crack and wonderful.

So is Godel, Escher, Bach!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I did love GEB, and Cryptonomicon looks a lot easier to get through what with it being fiction :D

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I am now a third of the way through it and those parts of my brain that were completely burnt out at the end of high school due to way, way, way too many hours a week spent doing advanced mathematics are starting to show signs of sneaky recovery. I wish there was some kind of Cryptography For People Who Are Not Dummies At All, But Didn't Do Maths At Uni, But Could Probably Understand The Maths Anyway If It Was Presented In Logical Steps.

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

Dunno if you care about the opinions of complete strangers, but a number of people have written an answer to Why Dreamwidth (http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Why_Dreamwidth).

[skygiants]

Personally I like the Baroque Cycle much better than Cryptonomicon, but that may be at least 75% due to the hilarious Isaac Newton slash.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I once read about 80% of Quicksilver and then had to give it back to the person from whom I had borrowed it! But I DID enjoy the Isaac/Daniel and I fully intend to read the Cycle one day when I have a LOT of free time. Probably this summer. So...eight months from now :D

[skygiants]

It took me forever to get through the whole thing! Also they are heavy books to carry around. But it is worth it, I think - the second book tends to drag, but the third one is the best, imho. :D

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

1. *I* am interested in your original fiction! But I haven't had the time / concentration power to read past that first fic in the 'verse, yet.

2. Hmm. Dreamwidth. That is all.

[sinclair-furie.livejournal.com]

I too am interested in the original fiction, but (1) have already read it and (2) upon realizing it doesn't show up on your ficblog, friended you. :)

[lilith-lessfair.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Cryptonomicon ... haven't read that. I shall have to make a note to myself.
Plod on the heist AU, pretty, pretty please ......

Curiously, I had been about to ask you if you would mind if I friended your ficblog, but, if you aren't going to post your origific there (For the record, I would read it there, should you decide to continue to post it there, as I think it is my favorite of all of your work.), may I friend this journal instead?

Many thanks!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Goodness, I assumed you HAD friended this journal; it didn't occur to me that you'd want to ask permission :) You're absolutely welcome to friend one or both, whichever you please!

[lilith-lessfair.livejournal.com]

I probably should have as much as I've posted on your journal; I seem to be shy about friending. But, thank you for your hospitality, and I have now befriended both.

I have been meaning to comment on Fortuna Fugit, but I haven't managed to push my thoughts into any sort of coherent shape and am reduced to saying things like "Wow!" and "Guh! and "Lovely!" and other bits of delighted babbling.

Cheers!

[kyrie1618.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of Dreamwidth. I really do. But I don't think I'll use it. I've been wanting to leave LiveJournal for quite some time now. I could use a mailing list instead. Everyone has email! I don't care about being on the web - I just like hearing from certain people. So if I stop using Livejournal, I lose filtered and friends-only entries... that would suck.

So I stay for the filtered and friends-only entries of people I like.

I don't like my own reason. Maybe that means I should change my mind.