![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Aug. 4th, 2011 02:39 pmI'm going to do two very daring things today (because I am, of course, a very daring person - part of this daring is that it's 20.4 degrees outside today which means that my winter day is about as cold during the day as most of my English summer and so windows are open and I am feeling not too worried about the jetlag).
Daring Thing number one is an introduction for all those (also very daring) people who have recently friended me, both here and on FB (since this copies to FB) and Daring Thing number two is for those who worried in June that question threads would be a long way in their future.
Actually, I hate introducing myself. I used to say that I wore different hats at different times of day and that some of those hats were writer, historian (mostly Medieval and cultural), foodie and possibly critic. Now I think that I'm simply myself and that Gillian is rather a complex person. I don't feel at all complex from my perspective, though. In fact, I feel like a simple soul who loves tea, coffee, chocolate and books (not in that order, however).
I guess I'm suggesting that if anyone has a better way of introducing me, the comments for this post are at your disposal. I ought to say (very clearly) that evil introductions open themselves up to consequences.
Since I am a great believer in fairness, this is also a question thread. For those of you who have not had the rather mixed blessing of encountering a question thread before, every now and again I open a thread up and answer any questions posed.
This all started because a bunch of writers had quick questions (that didn't need research) for their fiction. When I turned up to SF conventions, I would spend a lot of time answering them and it was cutting into my social life. Since I opened up question threads, some writers still use the threads for simple research (and if I don't know the answer I will try to refer you to somewhere that might, but I won't do your research for you, because more than a few minutes work at my end and it turns into paid work and income is important) but others use it to stir me or be silly. All this is fine. Personal questions are fine, too. If a question cuts too close to the bone, you might get a silly answer or none at all, however. Questions that have already been asked and that I'd rather not see again include my shoesize and how long a piece of string is.
This will be the only question post on the blog until after Conflux, since I have a cookbook coming out and am on the Convention committee and am writing and studying and working and reviewing and generally a bit surprised at how busy I am. I only came back to twelve books to read immediately, however, so this week things are reasonably under control. This means you have until Sunday night (in any Earth timezone) to pose your questions.
Daring Thing number one is an introduction for all those (also very daring) people who have recently friended me, both here and on FB (since this copies to FB) and Daring Thing number two is for those who worried in June that question threads would be a long way in their future.
Actually, I hate introducing myself. I used to say that I wore different hats at different times of day and that some of those hats were writer, historian (mostly Medieval and cultural), foodie and possibly critic. Now I think that I'm simply myself and that Gillian is rather a complex person. I don't feel at all complex from my perspective, though. In fact, I feel like a simple soul who loves tea, coffee, chocolate and books (not in that order, however).
I guess I'm suggesting that if anyone has a better way of introducing me, the comments for this post are at your disposal. I ought to say (very clearly) that evil introductions open themselves up to consequences.
Since I am a great believer in fairness, this is also a question thread. For those of you who have not had the rather mixed blessing of encountering a question thread before, every now and again I open a thread up and answer any questions posed.
This all started because a bunch of writers had quick questions (that didn't need research) for their fiction. When I turned up to SF conventions, I would spend a lot of time answering them and it was cutting into my social life. Since I opened up question threads, some writers still use the threads for simple research (and if I don't know the answer I will try to refer you to somewhere that might, but I won't do your research for you, because more than a few minutes work at my end and it turns into paid work and income is important) but others use it to stir me or be silly. All this is fine. Personal questions are fine, too. If a question cuts too close to the bone, you might get a silly answer or none at all, however. Questions that have already been asked and that I'd rather not see again include my shoesize and how long a piece of string is.
This will be the only question post on the blog until after Conflux, since I have a cookbook coming out and am on the Convention committee and am writing and studying and working and reviewing and generally a bit surprised at how busy I am. I only came back to twelve books to read immediately, however, so this week things are reasonably under control. This means you have until Sunday night (in any Earth timezone) to pose your questions.