On Pompoms

Things have been quiet here lately thanks to merlin_redux (which has started posting! Go! Read!) Well, they've been mostly quiet, apart from the folks who get to hear me moan constantly under my writing filter. Aren't they lucky?

Life is generally quiet here at the moment - lots of painting and cleaning in the flat, things are steady again at work and I'm tired all the damn time. That bit's less fun, but I'm dealing.

Everything will get busy again next week once I start working on my paperlengends fic. I need to do some reading over the weekend to get my head on straight, then I'm just going to plunge in and see what happens. There's no point over-researching at this point (yes, I did really just say that), and I've decided I'm better off digging into it as I need to, rather than ending up at all sorts of tangents. I'll only have to edit them out, anyway.

And that actually brings me to the point of this post: Cheeleading!. There's a thread over at Paperlegends at the moment for people to request Cheerleaders. I'm womanfully resisiting volunteering, on the basis that I have my own fic to write in a stupidly short timespan, and am already beta'ing for someone else. And will chip in to cheer on any of my flist who need it. And I'm lucky enough to not feel the need to put out a request post - my own betas are fabulous cheerleaders, and you guys will get regular updates as well, whether you want them or not, and any pompoms you can wave in my direction will be greatly appreciated.

BUT. I'm lucky. I've been at this a while now, I know what I'm doing, and I have a great support network to wail at. If you have the time to hold someone's hand, I really recommend heading over to the comm here and see if you can help a fellow fan out.

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ETA: Okay, so I lied like a lying thing. I *have* volunteered to help cheerlead someone, because apparently I have a soft spot for Gen writers who need BritPicks... If I can do it, so can you! /pep talk