What did you blog about today?

I pretty much grew up on internet forums - I think I was 13 or 14 when I joined my first one. A lot of those traumatic and formative moments of adolescence happened to me on forums, or with forum people. My experience is that your chances of something bad or something good happening are roughly the same with real life. So yeah, pretty good chance something bad will happen.

Would I prefer to do everything I do on forums in real life? I think so, yes. But, even in a city the size of London, its simply not an option.
 
The first couple of forums I ever posted on were parenting ones; I migrated to writing forums in 2012 when I joined the Chrons. I'm like Sue; I read a lot more than I actually post. But I really enjoy the sense of 'belonging' you get from a welcoming forum, and in today's interconnected lifestyle I like that several of my forum friendships have evolved to become Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/email friendships. I enjoy the ease of posting on a forum, where you can answer (or not) in your own time, when you're ready. I try to live by two basic rules: Be Nice, and following on from that one, If You Wouldn't Say It In Person To Someone's Face, Don't Say It Online. :D
 
The first boards I was participated in were the Asimov's/Analog (SF magazines) boards and one of the Buffy, the Vampire Slayer boards. The zine boards were initially very nice though they got destroyed by terrible administration and allowing them to become political. Initially very nice; ultimately very mean-spirited. The Buffy board was kind of an amazing experience through and through. I did have one wingnut take a hating to me for some reason but it was never anything serious to me and otherwise it ranged from nice to extraordinary. Talk about a diverse board of all kinds of people from Marines to Wiccans to who knows. It was like the only thing we had in common was the show and a feeling of family.

Anyway - today I blogged about the eleven online stories from the "Year's Bests" that I've read so far and especially the four that most struck me and that I'd recommend in one way or another: Reading the 2016 "Best" Stories (Part 1)
 
Juliana said:
I'm like Sue; I read a lot more than I actually post.
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Same here, and I find keeping up with Chrons time-consuming enough - while I'm impressed that folks like Jo can keep up with multiple forums I'm pretty sure my head would explode if I tried it.
thaddeus6th said:
Meanwhile, Captain Finger-on-the-Pulse has reviewed a book about discord between a wealthy, privileged elite and the hard-pressed plebs
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That was an interesting review, Thad, but I couldn't see anything in it (or the earlier review you had a link to by the same author) that pointed towards when this all happened (well, at least for someone like me who knows exceptionally little about Roman history). What century/centuries does the book cover?
 
Ah, sorry. It's pretty much the 4th century BC. (Whilst this is implied by it being post Gallic-sack and pre-Pyrrhus, obviously that's not use if you're not into classical history and those periods in particular).
 
Gonk the Insane said:
Same here, and I find keeping up with Chrons time-consuming enough - while I'm impressed that folks like Jo can keep up with multiple forums I'm pretty sure my head would explode if I tried it.

That was an interesting review, Thad, but I couldn't see anything in it (or the earlier review you had a link to by the same author) that pointed towards when this all happened (well, at least for someone like me who knows exceptionally little about Roman history). What century/centuries does the book cover?
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Ye could have quoted the link as well! Just had to switch pages to find it. The drama, gods :p

And I find a lot of skim reading and not having a social life helps.

Anyway, my blog of the day is catching up with my attempt to read some modern fantasy.
 
It's a very undernourished blog. One of my new year resolutions is to fatten it up a bit.

One guy said that he was the subject of a bidding war between Random House and 4th Estate for his debut novel, which was quite exciting. Anoth e guy said his attempts at publishing a novel about Japan was bring met with institutionalised prejudice against Japan within the publishing industry. However, upon further pressing, I suspect that it was more to do with the fact he didn't read the submission guidelines properly.
 
DG Jones said:
It's a very undernourished blog. One of my new year resolutions is to fatten it up a bit.

One guy said that he was the subject of a bidding war between Random House and 4th Estate for his debut novel, which was quite exciting. Anoth e guy said his attempts at publishing a novel about Japan was bring met with institutionalised prejudice against Japan within the publishing industry. However, upon further pressing, I suspect that it was more to do with the fact he didn't read the submission guidelines properly.
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Any idea what with?

Jo Zebedee said:
This week, I'm joined by @HareBrain to talk about, of all things, shamanic rituals. And Otter gets involved, too.

Seriously, Chronners, if you want to get in on a bandwagon early, this book is outstanding.

JoZebwrites: DOGGED BY OTTER
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I really need to get my own collection of Harebrained answers out to press while I've still got something fairly unique in there :p Great read :)
 
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