I abuse the strike through HTML.

[meganbmoore]

Between the two rounds of friending memes, a few people I met here and there, and several people who have found me...somewhere (Yeah, I dunno, had an anime/manga person friending me every few days for a couple weeks there. No objections to that, of course, but if you have me friended and I haven't friended you back, it's because I can't quite figure out why you have me friended.) my f-list has...grown as I have collected underlings flunkies followers a harem new friends.  ANYWAY!

No proper intro post because I'm lazy but here are two questions I get asked a lot:

Question 1. Do you like every female character ever?
Answer:  No.  I just find it difficult to bother sticking with something if I don't, unless I've been promised sooper dooper extra amazing things.

Question 2: OMG how do you read so much?
Answer:  My job requires me to spend most or all of my shift sitting in front of a computer every day, listening to slight variations of recordings of the same script over and over and over again.  I read non-stop both because I enjoy it, and because it maintains my sanity.

Random other bits:

I have ADD.  I haven't required medication to function "normally" since my mid-teens, but it does still result in extreme fixation on things at times.

As a general rule, most of my prose reading is various fantasy genres.  This year, though, I've been reading a lot of mysteries and YA.

I have been reading manga a little bit more rabidly than normal lately because my backlog of manga got so big.  Int heory, I will slow down a bit shortly.  My US comics have been neglected this year because Marvel and DC keep making me mad.  I am also generally more of a shounen fan than a shoujo fan.  Despite this, I've had a good string of discovering good shoujo lately and have been reading a lot of that.  A lovely little title called Comic, however, may have cured me of the "try new shoujo" bug.  I have also been reading a lot of Clamp, Kaori Yuki, and You Higuri this year.  Be impressed I still have a functioning brain left.

In conclusion, I may or may not be attempting to motivate myself to write a steampunk novel about about a blind swordwoman assassin who also writes penny dreadfuls.

Hmm...this did basically end up a normal intro post, didn't it?

Comments

[crystal-hoser.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I was wondering about the reading thing. It's a good thing you have something to maintain your sanity at work!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help that my coworkers like to watch things that drive me up the wall. (Though I have discovered a few good things from them.)

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

I am also generally more of a shounen fan than a shoujo fan.

WHAT.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I kkknnnnoooowwwww.

Too many alpha shoujo jerks and love triangles andteens endlessly fretting about sex the first couple years of manga reading. I went from madly in love with it at first to...not.

[kakkobean.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooo, a NOVEL 8D I'm excited for you ♥

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

"attempting to motivate myself" is the key term...

[kakkobean.livejournal.com]

there is always that little problem. Maybe think of all of the, uh, chocolate you could buy yourself if you finish it and it gets published 8D

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

And here's motivation for you: if I can do it, anyone can...

[ladysaotome.livejournal.com]

Here! Here! (I agree!)

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

*attempts to motive this writing attempt* I think that would be an interesting novel, and I'd like to read it. (It'd also be cool to read a book by an author I'm friends with.)

[artillie.livejournal.com]

Just admit that we're your harem. There's no sense in hiding it. THE NEW PEOPLE MUST KNOW THE TRUTH.

Haha, you think you abuse the strikethrough tag?

I third, or fourth, or fifth the encouragement for the novel idea--with something Alan Moore-ish where you give us excerpts from said penny dreadfuls in between the chapters. (Also, your remark about femslash, or at least Les Yay, has got me happy.)

[lostopenwindows.livejournal.com]

If you ever write a novel like that, I'd totally read it.