Hardly anyone ever responds when I post these in my own journal and #3 would definitely set off bad feelings amongst the people on my f-list because of some petty feuds going on, so... here.
1. How/when/from whom did you learn to knit?
When was January 2005 or thereabouts. As to how and from whom, I was having a bad time coming off a medication right around then and was was extremely jittery as a result. A friend suggested that finding some crafty thing to do with my hands might help, and knitting seemed to be the most viable candidate since it requires somewhat less eyesight. Said friend lives several states away, so I had my mother figure out how to cast on for me, and then I sat down with knittinghelp.com.
2. Do you have a phrase that comes out so easily when you're writing that you constantly have to go back and edit it out of your stories during revision, to avoid repetition? If so, what is it?
Not a phrase, per se, but my characters spend entirely too much time turning around or spinning around. Some of that comes from frequently writing about two characters with a tendency to get lost in their heads, but it's no excuse for everyone else.
3. If you could have a crack!fic filled weekend of writing and fannish insanity with any five BNFs (or small-name-fans, too!) in any of your fandoms, who would you invite?
Honestly, I don't think I would. Five new people is about three too many to meet in one weekend. I do well in extremely large groups like conventions and in very small groups.
That said, there's a guy I've recently gotten to know through LJ who shares several fandoms with me who I think would be interesting to meet. He writes too, he likes my favorite rarepair from SG-1... he could be fun to spend a weekend around.
4. Who is your all-time favorite fictional heroine? Why?
Menolly from Harper Hall trilogy that's part of Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. She's smart, she's talented, she breaks away from her family's expectations when she needs to and goes on to do something important, she eschews most of the girls at her school because they're superficial and not interested in learning.... I read those books for the first time in junior high when I was struggling with a lot of those issues myself. The books still stand up to rereadings now that I'm older, although I can't bring myself to do more than skim certain portions of the last one. Once Anne McCaffrey's female characters are old enough, romance is not optional, and it annoyed me then and now that her friend had to become her boyfriend.
5. What's your favorite dessert food?
You ask hard questions. There are these bar cookies that I make occasionally with chocolate chips, coconut, nuts, and evaporated milk on a crust. Those are impossible for me to resist, which is why I only make them occasionally. More generally, I'd say cakes.
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Date: 2006-05-04 09:09 pm (UTC)1. How/when/from whom did you learn to knit?
When was January 2005 or thereabouts. As to how and from whom, I was having a bad time coming off a medication right around then and was was extremely jittery as a result. A friend suggested that finding some crafty thing to do with my hands might help, and knitting seemed to be the most viable candidate since it requires somewhat less eyesight. Said friend lives several states away, so I had my mother figure out how to cast on for me, and then I sat down with knittinghelp.com.
2. Do you have a phrase that comes out so easily when you're writing that you constantly have to go back and edit it out of your stories during revision, to avoid repetition? If so, what is it?
Not a phrase, per se, but my characters spend entirely too much time turning around or spinning around. Some of that comes from frequently writing about two characters with a tendency to get lost in their heads, but it's no excuse for everyone else.
3. If you could have a crack!fic filled weekend of writing and fannish insanity with any five BNFs (or small-name-fans, too!) in any of your fandoms, who would you invite?
Honestly, I don't think I would. Five new people is about three too many to meet in one weekend. I do well in extremely large groups like conventions and in very small groups.
That said, there's a guy I've recently gotten to know through LJ who shares several fandoms with me who I think would be interesting to meet. He writes too, he likes my favorite rarepair from SG-1... he could be fun to spend a weekend around.
4. Who is your all-time favorite fictional heroine? Why?
Menolly from Harper Hall trilogy that's part of Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. She's smart, she's talented, she breaks away from her family's expectations when she needs to and goes on to do something important, she eschews most of the girls at her school because they're superficial and not interested in learning.... I read those books for the first time in junior high when I was struggling with a lot of those issues myself. The books still stand up to rereadings now that I'm older, although I can't bring myself to do more than skim certain portions of the last one. Once Anne McCaffrey's female characters are old enough, romance is not optional, and it annoyed me then and now that her friend had to become her boyfriend.
5. What's your favorite dessert food?
You ask hard questions. There are these bar cookies that I make occasionally with chocolate chips, coconut, nuts, and evaporated milk on a crust. Those are impossible for me to resist, which is why I only make them occasionally. More generally, I'd say cakes.