Observations

[annathepiper]

Yet another person, one of the folks on Two Moons who read over Faerie Blood for me, has compared my writing style to Laurell K. Hamilton. I do not consider this a bad thing, given that I do actually kind of like her writing style even if I am annoyed at her hard left turn into "soft porn with a light smattering of actual plot on top" land. I actually derive more inspiration from Tanya Huff and Jim Butcher, but well hey, Jim's been compared to both Tanya Huff and Laurell K. Hamilton, so if I'm in that ballpark, I'm a happy camper. ;)

I am also growing amused at the number of my friends who are writers or writer hopefuls. There's mizkit and shadowhwk, everybody on scuzzboppers, dementia42, xionin, Rod who isn't actually on LJ, and another friend by the name of Deby who used to run the offline Telgar Weyr and is going the small press route with HER first novel. This is the same level of amusement I've had from discovering the number of musically inclined friends I've got, too.

I seem to be acquainted with a large number of disguised bards.

Comments

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

Dunno if I count as friend outside of LJ, but I have four filk albums out, and am writing a comic script :)

[annathepiper]

*giggle* You, sir, are under no circumstances a disguised bard. :) And hey! You may be a purely online friend at the moment, but I have plenty of purely online friends; this is what we get for living several time zones apart.

[apel.livejournal.com]

LJ seems to be full of more or less frustrated writers. It felt as if half my friends list was participating in NaNoWriMo or at least wanting to. It felt kind of strange to not have that particular itch to scratch. :-)

OTOH, I'm one of veritable hordes of amateur photographers on LJ, so maybe I shouldn't talk. :-)

[annathepiper]

The MUSH-playing crowd, from which I derive most of my online experience, is also full of writer hopefuls. :) It comes from getting in a lot of practice with one's prose, roleplaying on an interactive but purely text-based environment--and heck, the aforementioned Jim Butcher is in fact a former MUSHer!

Several folks I know on TM were doing Nanowrimo, yeah. And it's getting more popular year by year, as word spreads.

And heh! You and flashfire both have the photo thing down on my Friends list.

[leian.livejournal.com]

Disguised bards? 0_0 Is that what we are? 0_0 ... I never thought of it that way.....

I like it! :D

[annathepiper]

*giggle* Yeah. Bards tell stories, after all. Or sing songs. It's the whole POINT of being a bard. ;)

[starfallz.livejournal.com]

I misread that as "I seem to be acquainted with a large number of disgusted bards."

[annathepiper]

*snicker* Yeah well, I get periodically disgusted when I can't beat a paragraph into shape, so that counts. ;)

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

I guess I don't count as disguised, as I have a nasty habit of reading my poetry in public. :)

I'm also a b&w photographer. Interesting set of overlaps.

Just to add to the mix, I also study yoga.

[annathepiper]

Heh! I guess I'm not exactly disguised anymore either, having stuck an ACTUAL MANUSCRIPT IN THE MAIL FOR THE SECOND TIME IN MY LIFE EEEEEEEE... ahem. Er. Calm. Quiet. Peaceful. I'm calm now!

[firni.livejournal.com]

In Everquest, we kill bards.

http://www.notacult.com/fansythefamous.htm

[annathepiper]

Hence why we're DISGUISED! At least until we can get +3 rustproof gauntlets of power and +5 Stormbringer, speed boots, and gray dragon scale ma--whoops, wait, that's Nethack.

[agrimony.livejournal.com]

If that's soft porn, I am afraid of hard. :)

[annathepiper]

*chortle!* Good point. ;D

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

Not me. I write nonfiction, I lecture. Hardly bardlike.

But I do have a book out!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1593850115/qid=1083114527/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-6804135-5213512?v=glance&s=books

(No, there will not be a quiz. ;)
Cathy

[annathepiper]

Hee hee! Hey, another bardic function is to convey knowledge. ;) There's reasons ol' Anne McCaffrey has the Harpers teaching folks in the Pern books!

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

But believe me, I don't rhyme! ;)
Cathy

[annathepiper]

Hee hee!