Christmas meme from teh_elb

[wellinghall]

STEP ONE

Make a post (public, friends-locked, filtered... whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of ten holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape / Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car / computer / house / TV"). The important thing is to make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

# If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) can get in touch with you. Your home address is not required!

# Make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

STEP TWO

# Surf around your friends list (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now, here's the important part...

# If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes one person's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use - or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free - do it.

# You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf - to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not - it's your call. There are no guarantees with this project, and no strings attached. Just... wish, and it might come true. Give and you might receive. You'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

So here goes ... (if you need to, you can message me through LJ)


My wish list

1. An icon of a snowy owl, or a goshawk, or a gyrfalcon.
2. Wimsey, or Jennings, or Biggles, or Miles Vorkosigan, or Dalziel / Pascoe, or Just William fic.
3. Cuddles from our godchildren (and our nephews and nieces), and hugs from my friends.
4. The willpower to exercise.
5. Some way to start writing fic.
6. Alfred Hitchcock or Grace Kelly on DVD.
7. Obscure sf or fantasy stories which I might like.
8. Some old beer.
9. Some really old whisky.
10. A new job.

Comments

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

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[rosathome.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you would like, e.g. text added or other amendments. Or indeed if you had something else in mind.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thank you - those are marvellous!

[segh.livejournal.com]

5. Do something really boring. I wrote the story for you when I was doing all that varnishing and I had to have something to keep my mind from melting. Then, when you've got it in your head, tell me, and we'll have a race. ("Have you got to 5000 words yet?") Because I need someone to keep me up to the mark on the book I'm trying to write.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Okay - I'm starting!

[segh.livejournal.com]

I have five chapters - but they need to be transferred from the old computer to the new, which is a problem. I'll start from where I left off and recover the missing chapters later.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Barring one very short Tolkien story a few years ago, which never saw the light of day, this is the first fiction I've written since O levels!

[segh.livejournal.com]

I've been writing fiction all my life, but I don't think people want to read it much! I've been in for a couple of literary competitions but come nowhere. (Not counting the Spec ones, of course.) But I do mean to try again. I'll send you a precis of the story so far.

[findabair.livejournal.com]

Have you read Sheridan Le Fanu's ghost- and vampire stories? (They're obscure for most people I know, but I wouldn't be surprised if you know them :) Anyway, they're available online here (http://www.ucc.ie/celt/publishd.html#lefanu).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't think I have ... thanks.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

What a brilliant meme!!!

7. Have you read Zenna Henderson?

5. Sign up for a course where they will give you lots of exercises to do.

3. *Hugs*

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-) *hugs back*

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

Writing - just do it! get something on paper, you can go back and refine it later.

And I have some obscure fantasy...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks :-)

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

Also, for no. 5, I have just discovered Write or Die (http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html) which I am finding to be an excellent way of getting words out. I think it probably works best if procrastination or perfectionism is the problem, rather than actual inspiration.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Number 7.

'The Witcher' series by Andrzej Sapkowski.

These count as obscure in the English-speaking world, since the first short story collection was only translated into English in 2007, but they're very popular in Poland. I'm reading 'The Last Wish' now - a lot of fun. You may well enjoy it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_witcher


Not obscure, in that you can go into any branch of Waterstones and by all three books, and I keep going on about it in my LJ, but Joe Abercrombie's 'Book of the First Law' trilogy is great.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Law

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that.