TLYDF Feedback Time: We Want Your Ideas

We Want Your Ideas

So, the Lazy Yet Discerning Ficster has been throwing all sorts of randomness at you for months now, but we've reached the point where we have covered what WE think is useful, but really, we know how that's pretty much useless. Now, we want to know what articles and columns you want to see from us, so please let us know! Make a comment below and tell us what you'd like to see more of. (Then we can harass knowledgeable people into writing the articles...)

Editorial: I Owe Some Serious Thanks

SOOOOO...This is just an itty bitty blurb about TLYDF stats.

I had no idea.

Really.

The followers list says 107 right now.

The stats program I just got from dear emibella just gave a clue as to how many people read this.

In the one day I have stats for...there were over 600 hits.

600. In one day.

I think I died ded. And it had nothing to do with being Done like Dee on Battlestar Galactica tonight. (Done like Dee is forever in my mind copyrighted by the lovely upthedownslide...if you are a BSG acolyte, you understand).

What hit me was where you all are from...all of us with so much in common from everywhere...I wanted to jump for joy seeing my fellow Tennesseans reading. I voraciously searched for my Bay Area homies...yeah, I used to go to Great America back in the day. People from my hometown read this. People from my current town read this. Gods, I wonder if we've stood in line next to each other at Whole Foods?

I consider this hugely extravagant number for this fledgling blog a HUGE SUCCESS. It's amazing to me that you all come here...read our dribble and spend your precious free time on us. It is an honor to host you all and we will strive to do new and different things to keep you entertained and not waste your time.

So what do I have on deck for you?

~The eloquent and lovely cdunbar is our GB for Sunday...

~I won't tell you who (I gotta keep you checking in right?), but keep an eye out for our first GB article this Thursday. I guarantee the name is familiar ;).

~As I posted yesterday, we will be doing published author recs...because books are the literature of our souls!

~I have a number of "columns" that are in the works *wink-youknowwhoyouare* that will hopefully be unveiled very soon.

~Perhaps some alternate perspectives and rec'd author followup interviews

~Articles about the craft with corresponding recs....I'm trying to get emibella to wax rhapsodic on her rhetoric expertise ;).

~Shameless begging for you to spread the word *hint hint*. I do what I must.

Because she makes me feel even more feminist and hippie in the most elegant way possible.

So...we have some great themes and interesting perspectives coming up...my best friend, Google Calendar, is filled out halfway through February.

Again, please allow me this chance to say how much we appreciate your support. This was a tiny idea that has metamorphed into a labor of love. We really do believe in our mission here and are beyond ecstatic that you all have joined us for this journey...so as a reviewer once so eloquently told me - I leave you with the simple, but most powerful words that I have...Thank You.

And to the girls who have indulged me in my crazy notions and have perpetuated my soap box idealistic behavior....AngstGoddess, angel, emibella, marve, wtvoc, jandco, tnuccio, Avalonia, jword, le jen, and last BUT never least - siDEADde. You all made this happen. On the sweat of your backs and our gchat boxes has this been the made into the greatest pleasure of all. The GB's and our affiliates...Twilighted, Temptation, Perve's and The Eddies....thank you for the support and the assistance.

Regards,
Smellyia

Housekeeping: Schedule Plan

Hi Everyone...Housekeeping Junk

Thursdays: We will post "articles" on aspects of the fandom...for example, this weeks will tackle the question "Why Fanfiction?" Mainly it will be us Administrators - myself, angel, emibella and AngstGoddess003 and perhaps the occasional GB who has a special expertise in a certain aspect of fandom to tell us about.

Sundays: We will post our weekly rec. We will alternate recs with admins and our Guest Blogger. We have had a great response and we are thrilled by the GB's we already have lined up....I'm pretty sure most of you know them :D

And enjoy today's GB blondie below!

Housekeeping, bleh.

So a few bits. I am about to post the first rec and that will give you an idea of how future recs from Guest Bloggers will be formatted. In addition to recs, we will be posting interim blogs that will discuss the fandom, give encouragement and some may even be in congruence with the fics...we want to give you things to ponder about this experience and we encourage comments here, but moreso on our TLYDF thread on Twilighted.net that we have started in the Twilighted lounge. Hopefully it will garner some additional reader/author attention.

TLDYF Link on Twilighted.net forum:
http://www.twilighted.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1680


In addition to this, AngstGoddess003 has kindly volunteered her AMAZING photoshop skills for the graphics we have now! On the bottom of the page are available avi's and siggies to use for your blogging, Twilighted forum and Gchat profiles....they are so purty. A big round of applause and gushes of thanks go to the lovely AG.

In addition to this blog, we have joined forces to steer us away from the dark side with emibella's Music Sunday's blog. The goal of this is to enhance our musical minds for inspiration to write the fic we all adore so much. It's an amazing blog full of intelligent musical assessment and mass emails that put the underground into your box....please take a moment to check it out, follow it, get on the email list. Link below as well as to the right of this page.

http://musicsundays.blogspot.com/

If you have questions or concerns, please email me at smellyia@gmail.com

amelia aka smellyia