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strangetomato) wrote2009-01-12 08:30 pm
strangetomato) wrote2009-01-12 08:30 pm
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Lurk no more...
Did you know that today is Delurking Day out there in the blogosphere?
That's right. So, let this be an invitation to anyone who'd like to introduce themselves and say hi. You know I'd love to hear from you. No pressure, of course, but you may as well delurk on Delurking Day, right? Come one, come all. Get a conversation started. I'm all ears.
This was a great day for me. I made some real progress on the next update, and there was RL good news all over the place. I was asked to interview for a job that had over 50 applicants and was pleasantly surprised to be offered another job that will stretch my experience significantly. I was also asked to be a bridesmaid in my "brother"s wedding this summer (actually a cousin, but we grew up together like siblings). I'd fully expect to win the lottery too, but I don't actually ever buy tickets.
Now, I should go out there and delurk too, shouldn't I?
That's right. So, let this be an invitation to anyone who'd like to introduce themselves and say hi. You know I'd love to hear from you. No pressure, of course, but you may as well delurk on Delurking Day, right? Come one, come all. Get a conversation started. I'm all ears.
This was a great day for me. I made some real progress on the next update, and there was RL good news all over the place. I was asked to interview for a job that had over 50 applicants and was pleasantly surprised to be offered another job that will stretch my experience significantly. I was also asked to be a bridesmaid in my "brother"s wedding this summer (actually a cousin, but we grew up together like siblings). I'd fully expect to win the lottery too, but I don't actually ever buy tickets.
Now, I should go out there and delurk too, shouldn't I?
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Really, I lurk because of the massive quantity of people reading this. People always make such great comments or suggestions or observations and I always feel as if I'd just be another random comment. I prefer to write a comment when it really means something as opposed to commenting for the sake of commenting. I'm a writer myself, and while I once tried the genre of Sim-writing, I find that I fail far too often at posing them the way I want to. I get too impatient with the pictures and just want the story to continue without the effort to take the pictures. I could explain all the details to all sorts of characters in my game, stories that speed through my head when I'm playing, but I just gave up on the picture-taking part.
I applaud you on how successful this has become. I happen to really appreciate your writing and the fact that people continue reading even when you've got a little bit of writer's block. Having a fanbase has to be an incredibly uplifting thing! I'm a writer myself (although sadly not involving Sims anymore) but I tend to keep my writing to myself, not because I'm afraid of sharing, but because every time I try to share something I've written, no one reads it. I tell my friends, people insist they will, that they need something to read, and then I offer up my writing and everyone just finds things to do other than read my writing. So my writing LJ,
I also have to say... I stole Ophelia's name for a character. While the name Ophelia in itself is not really "yours", per se... I use the nickname "Phi" for a character of mine on a text-based roleplaying environment called a MUSH. My Phi has her own wiki-page for the MUSH:
http://heroesmush.wikidot.com/Ophelia
That's about all I have to say. Oh, and I'm a day late because yesterday I spent six or seven hours driving back from my parent's house to my dorm at college and got very little sleep. So I didn't really do my normal things, such as checking blogs I keep up with.