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Just in case you don't have otw_news_feed on your flist, and you write fanfic, check out their post on an interview with TIME. (The writer is a professional author himself and this is in cooperation with OTW, so I think it's pretty safe.)

Random observations

* I’m happy to have finished my fic for finishathon! Now to see if I can dredge up four requests for fic for parallelsficexchange (as usual, I’m having more problem coming up with requests than offers). My help_the_south winner is suffering a bout of RL but I have an idea of what fandom they’re going to request. (I know it’s something Kamen Rider, possibly Kabuto or Blade.) My next major ficathons are going to be Yuletide and PR Remix.

* I’m looking forward to the next round of Government Controlled Cats. One of my entries for round 2 is currently in the top 3 for votes and will hopefully stay there.

* I’m participating in an interview for TIME magazine (along with a few hundred other fans) and the discussion is very, very interesting. As one participant has observed, there’s a distinct Western, live-action, active fan skew in there (a lot of the advertising was done by OTW, the AO3 folks). I find it funny because a lot of the fandoms I started out in were Western (as opposed to Asian) live-action series, but I mostly write Japanese-based series nowadays.

* My archiving is going nicely, considering I’m using mostly-compliant HTML and I’m trying to make sure that it’s accessible. I’m currently up to 32 works and am in the middle of Earth: Final Conflict fanfic. (I got slightly slowed down by one of my fics because it’s a crossover with about eight major characters in it.) I expect to be in Earth: Final Conflict fanfic for a while, as I wrote a lot of fic. (It was my first major fic-writing fandom, believe it or not.)

Crossposted from Ramblings Yet Once More here.