I was happy to see you "friended" me back - especially since you don't seem to have an extensive LJ friends section. Thank you for your interest.
I definitely share your obsession with SGA - I find the characters, particularly Sheppard and McKay, fascinating to read about. I don't know whether I'll write much fanfic but I devour the good stuff written and despair over the poorly conceived stories. Of course, everybody can't write well; everybody hasn't got depth, breadth and layers! But I appreciate the occasional superior story when I come across it!
Yes, I've been in various fandoms over the years, starting out with "Beauty and the Beast" (the series with Vincent and Catherine and Diana), for which I wrote zines and wrote for other people's zines. Then I wrote many stories in the "Highlander" (the series) fandom. Finally, I wrote "dueSouth" stories (Fraser/RayK).
From my old zine days I gradually built up a list of folks I'd send my stories to, and it spread a bit as other people heard of me and commented and I added them. Also, my website (prepared for me by a friend) got some interest over the years. But there's nothing like LJ for spreading your work far and wide! I "friended" folks whose stories I liked to read and one thing led to another and now you can see I have a large "friend" and "mutual friend" section on my LJ profile but I've only had real (i.e., emails back and forth) contact with a very few of those people.
I enjoy reading the journals of people of all ages and backgrounds but I understand your feeling that it's nice to communicate with somebody closer to your age. I'm amazed by the quality of the writing coming from people who haven't hit thirty yet! But their life-problems tend to be very similar to one another (school, money, diets, parent-problems, boy or girlfriends, identity crises). Not that we don't all have some of these problems but the emphasis and perspective is very different at retirement age....
I've been reading stories in The Sentinel and X-Files (mostly like Skinner/Krycek) over the years, along with SG1 (Jack/Daniel) and of course, recent years, Stargate Atlantis. Lately, LiveJournal has pretty much eaten my life but fortunately, I'm retired, so I have time to read as much as I like, whatever I like!
That's enough of that. Looking forward to reading more of your journal and stories today. It's cold outside! Love, max
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I definitely share your obsession with SGA - I find the characters, particularly Sheppard and McKay, fascinating to read about. I don't know whether I'll write much fanfic but I devour the good stuff written and despair over the poorly conceived stories. Of course, everybody can't write well; everybody hasn't got depth, breadth and layers! But I appreciate the occasional superior story when I come across it!
Yes, I've been in various fandoms over the years, starting out with "Beauty and the Beast" (the series with Vincent and Catherine and Diana), for which I wrote zines and wrote for other people's zines. Then I wrote many stories in the "Highlander" (the series) fandom. Finally, I wrote "dueSouth" stories (Fraser/RayK).
From my old zine days I gradually built up a list of folks I'd send my stories to, and it spread a bit as other people heard of me and commented and I added them. Also, my website (prepared for me by a friend) got some interest over the years. But there's nothing like LJ for spreading your work far and wide! I "friended" folks whose stories I liked to read and one thing led to another and now you can see I have a large "friend" and "mutual friend" section on my LJ profile but I've only had real (i.e., emails back and forth) contact with a very few of those people.
I enjoy reading the journals of people of all ages and backgrounds but I understand your feeling that it's nice to communicate with somebody closer to your age. I'm amazed by the quality of the writing coming from people who haven't hit thirty yet! But their life-problems tend to be very similar to one another (school, money, diets, parent-problems, boy or girlfriends, identity crises). Not that we don't all have some of these problems but the emphasis and perspective is very different at retirement age....
I've been reading stories in The Sentinel and X-Files (mostly like Skinner/Krycek) over the years, along with SG1 (Jack/Daniel) and of course, recent years, Stargate Atlantis. Lately, LiveJournal has pretty much eaten my life but fortunately, I'm retired, so I have time to read as much as I like, whatever I like!
That's enough of that. Looking forward to reading more of your journal and stories today. It's cold outside!
Love, max