ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
Mar. 2nd, 2004 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spankerellaYou know, I hate having a bad bad bad bad day, then coming home to domestic problems, then have booting issues with my computer, then MSN messenger issues, then finding some impatient little twit has sent an email to the TtH yahoo list that is almost a direct replica of an email said twit sent me the day before yesterday.
Unless you hit my inbox at just the right time or I am especially looking for your mail, I average a week on replying.
I was so irrtated. I am afraid I reacted a bit, the way I tend to do.
email 1
From: name removed
To: "Geisha Kitten and the Samurai Puppies"
Subject: Re: Gryffindor Girls, Author: ECHO
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:39:39 -0000
Is there a chance of any sequels to Gryffindor Girls?
email 2
From: name removed
Reply-To: Twisting-the-Hellmouth@yahoogroups.com
To: Twisting-the-Hellmouth@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Twisting-the-Hellmouth] Gryffindor Girls SEQUEL?????
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 23:17:16 -0000
Just curious if there will be a part 3 of the Kids of Potters, Malfoys, & Weasleys? This is mostly for ECHOLIZZIE. Obviously since she is the wonderful author of these stories.
Again, just wanting to know.
Thanks,
name removed
And my onlist response
How about giving a girl a chance to mail you back! Geez! You only emailed me the day before yesterday with this same question. You think you're the only person I have to send replies to? Not to be snarky or anything (too late) but how about exorcising some patience and not bothering the whole list with a queston that would have gotten answered in all likliness tomorrow since I have that day off. I only have one day off a week, and it's Wednesday, thank you! See, some of us have these things called jobs that don't let us sit at the computer all day and reply to mails much as we'd like to. Also, this sort of isn't the list to be asking about this one. As those fics are not crossovers. The site may accept non-crossover fic, but this list deals in crossing only.
Now for you answer that you just could not wait to have...
What's up is all there is. I'm not an author who just writes one story at a time, much to the disgruntle-ment of others. I always keep a lot of irons in the fire. I have other things planned in that universe, but I will get around to it when my muse and time allow and not a minute before. I don't just write to pump out fic. I write because I like to write. I write and post fic because I have ideas that amuse me, and I think other people might be amused by them as well.
And it's just echo. The name is echo. Not echolizzie. That's just my yahoo ID.
Sorry to semi-spam everybody with this mail, but I'm just too cranky about the whole thing. I'm sorry if I'm not working on or working quick enough on people's fics of mine that they want me to, but I don't belong to my readers. I love them. I would be nothing without some of them, but I don't belong to them. And it makes me really cranky when some of them forget that fact. It makes me cranky when any reader forgets that us writers don't belong to them. A lot of us have lives offline that have NOTHING to do with fic.
And patience is a virtue.
echo
:::end rant here:::
I think my day had a definite factor in this, but I think I feel bad because I don't feel bad. You know? I'm just gonna go write some fic.
Unless you hit my inbox at just the right time or I am especially looking for your mail, I average a week on replying.
I was so irrtated. I am afraid I reacted a bit, the way I tend to do.
email 1
From: name removed
To: "Geisha Kitten and the Samurai Puppies"
Subject: Re: Gryffindor Girls, Author: ECHO
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:39:39 -0000
Is there a chance of any sequels to Gryffindor Girls?
email 2
From: name removed
Reply-To: Twisting-the-Hellmouth@yahoogroups.com
To: Twisting-the-Hellmouth@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Twisting-the-Hellmouth] Gryffindor Girls SEQUEL?????
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 23:17:16 -0000
Just curious if there will be a part 3 of the Kids of Potters, Malfoys, & Weasleys? This is mostly for ECHOLIZZIE. Obviously since she is the wonderful author of these stories.
Again, just wanting to know.
Thanks,
name removed
And my onlist response
How about giving a girl a chance to mail you back! Geez! You only emailed me the day before yesterday with this same question. You think you're the only person I have to send replies to? Not to be snarky or anything (too late) but how about exorcising some patience and not bothering the whole list with a queston that would have gotten answered in all likliness tomorrow since I have that day off. I only have one day off a week, and it's Wednesday, thank you! See, some of us have these things called jobs that don't let us sit at the computer all day and reply to mails much as we'd like to. Also, this sort of isn't the list to be asking about this one. As those fics are not crossovers. The site may accept non-crossover fic, but this list deals in crossing only.
Now for you answer that you just could not wait to have...
What's up is all there is. I'm not an author who just writes one story at a time, much to the disgruntle-ment of others. I always keep a lot of irons in the fire. I have other things planned in that universe, but I will get around to it when my muse and time allow and not a minute before. I don't just write to pump out fic. I write because I like to write. I write and post fic because I have ideas that amuse me, and I think other people might be amused by them as well.
And it's just echo. The name is echo. Not echolizzie. That's just my yahoo ID.
Sorry to semi-spam everybody with this mail, but I'm just too cranky about the whole thing. I'm sorry if I'm not working on or working quick enough on people's fics of mine that they want me to, but I don't belong to my readers. I love them. I would be nothing without some of them, but I don't belong to them. And it makes me really cranky when some of them forget that fact. It makes me cranky when any reader forgets that us writers don't belong to them. A lot of us have lives offline that have NOTHING to do with fic.
And patience is a virtue.
echo
:::end rant here:::
I think my day had a definite factor in this, but I think I feel bad because I don't feel bad. You know? I'm just gonna go write some fic.
