*hides*

[erastes]

I've started to read my flist at last... I know - it's taken me a while, I've still been clinging to underlucius - but I've now bookmarked erastes' friends.

It's just... scary.

Was it so scary when I started off as underlucius? I can't really remember. Probably not, because in that LJ I started with about four friends and here I have loads of "instant" ones, and apart from the people who are here from UL, I don't know anyone.

I was always the kid who would stand and watch at the edge of the playground until someone said hello. As much as I long for literary success I really would hate to get to the stage where I couldn't comment on anyone's LJ or leave comments enabled on my own. That would be pretty sad.

I'll be brave, soon. Really. *watches*

Comments

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Welcome! You should make a community - I'd pimp it for you!

I bet you don't tell many people about your hobby....

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I bet you don't tell many people about your hobby....

A lot of people know I write. They don't necessarily know what I write, however. Same about the editing -- a lot of people know I am a freelance editor, and they know I have a regular gig with a small publisher. If asked directly, I'll tell them what the publisher publishes. But otherwise, unless I know they're open to the concept, I don't mention it explicitly.

Which leads to interestng verbal gyrations when I have story-research questions to ask people. I had to ask a friend what building someone would use if they wanted to attempt suicide on the Yeshiva University campus. The statement "it's for a story I'm writing" is not always enough to slake some people's curiosity.