Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.

'Not Fade Away'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


Lyra Jane - Mar 07, 2003 12:59:18 pm PST #4027 of 10000
Up with the sun

"Dude, what's mine say?" "SWEET! Dude, what's mine say?" "Sweet! Dude, what's mine say?"

Repeat ad nauseum.


deborah grabien - Mar 07, 2003 1:15:45 pm PST #4028 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Deborah, if you have AIM or some messenging service, I can walk you through seeing if there's an autosave doc.

If I do, it's buried. Damn.

Sorry about that - I was writing and posting in Bitchy Fic. I've realised I can't leave the computer for a bit anyway, since I'm awaiting News from the Great Beyond.


esse - Mar 07, 2003 1:25:21 pm PST #4029 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Mmkay.You might ask in Tech, so that we don't clog Fic with tech posts.


deborah grabien - Mar 07, 2003 1:27:51 pm PST #4030 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

You might ask in Tech, so that we don't clog Fic with tech posts.

Nonono - I'll wit for Nic. See, he set the entire system up. This way, if it's screwed up, I get to glare at him or he gets to glare at me, with no other bodies falling by the wayside.


esse - Mar 07, 2003 1:30:24 pm PST #4031 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

'Kay then.

What do you do, Deb?


deborah grabien - Mar 07, 2003 1:34:15 pm PST #4032 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

What do I do, as in job?

Caterer. I have my own small business. Also, writer. Both pay me, which is all good, but neither really require intense technoskill stuff.

Which is good, because what technoskill stuff (computer-oriented) I once had has drizzled out of my ears and into the cracks in the pavement.

Nic, OTOH, is what Betsy refers to as an alpha-geek.


esse - Mar 07, 2003 1:35:48 pm PST #4033 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

I'm like a beta-geek. Almost all the way there.

I almost went to cooking school instead of college. How did you get into catering? Do you enjoy it? What kind of events do you do?


Lyra Jane - Mar 07, 2003 1:37:58 pm PST #4034 of 10000
Up with the sun

Mmkay.You might ask in Tech, so that we don't clog Fic with tech posts.

Clogging fic with natter, OTOH....


Susan W. - Mar 07, 2003 1:38:28 pm PST #4035 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Deborah, that sounds like one of my plans for being self-supporting, only I'd be a wedding/event planner rather than a caterer.


deborah grabien - Mar 07, 2003 1:40:44 pm PST #4036 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

I did some formal cookery training, but this was originally a case of "learn the fundamentals or die and watch those you love die alongside you"; my father was a type 1 diabetic, I have lethal allergies, and no one else in my entire extended family could cook eggs without bringing the Wrath of the Chicken Gods down on their head for abuse.

Catering was a natural for me in the nineties; I'm in San Francisco, so catering a little departmental dotcom party for forty people at, say, Macromedia, was a fast two grand plus tip and a lot of word of mouth.

Alas, the dotcoms went bye bye. Added to this wretched disease, it's made the catering not nearly so lucrative as it once was. Which is one reason I'm having nightmares about my publisher wanting to commit to the rest of the new series. I need a book advance, damnit, especially since I'm likely to have to spend a chunk of any advance from book 2 travelling around and promoting book 1.

Although an Anarach/Buffista did just e me, wanting to know if I wanted to cater between 60-80 people at a post con party. I lurve doing con parties. Fun!