Another round of introductions

[pegkerr]

My friend of list is gettting truly frightening and is about to break 300. I last did this when the list was 100, but it's time for another round of introduce yourself, please? Who are you? How'd you find my journal? Why on earth do you keep reading it?

If you're willing, that is. No pressure/guilt if you don't.

Cheers,
Peg, who's about to stagger off to bed

Comments

[cheshyre]

I believe I found your journal through a comment of yours in the entry of one of our mutual friends.
I stuck around because (a) I read & enjoyed the Wild Swans, (b) I think that was around the time of some of your essays on Harry Potter fanfic that impressed me, and (c) even though I mostly stopped writing fiction after a traumatic experience with an undergraduate thesis, I still enjoy reading other writers write about writing.

[dreamingcrow.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure when I joined up, though it's been quite awhile ago. I found you through a post you'd made in someone else's journal. (anoisblue? I'm not sure) I made the connection with the username and The Wild Swans. Did the research and saw that it was you, so asked if it was okay to add you. :)

[innerslytherin]

Hi! I added you initially because you're a real fantasy author, and that's my aspiration. ^_^ I stuck around because you're also interesting!

(Hrm, so much for clever introductions. Instead I go for unctuous fangirl. *sigh* )

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I think I've said this before, but I heard about your whole LJ Brainstorming Process thing... and avoided reading it for a long time.

I'd been trying to keep my "friends" list down to people I actually knew, you see. When I finally gave up on that, you and your writing process were one of the first things I added. I stuck around for the literate discussions. (And some really neat stories about your girls.)

[maribou]

A friend of mine was reading one of your books, I think, and I said, "oo, why does that name sounds familiar?" and she said, "Wild Swans?" and I said, "YEAH! I keep meaning to read that! I love that fairy tale, wanna see what she did with it..." and she said, "You know, Peg Kerr has a livejournal..." and well, here I am reading you. Because you remain Very Interesting (and because I'll already be used to being here when I finally read _Wild Swans_ and want to coo appreciatively at you).

Introduction--

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

I found you surfing friends-of-friends, and I added you because your journal made me happy. *g*

[emerald-ibis.livejournal.com]

Hi!
I actually found your journal some time ago, but I didn't put your journal on my friends list until a few weeks ago, after I finished reading The Wild Swans. I saw that you are planning a new book, and I thought it was interesting that you would talk about your progress with it from time to time.

Brief fangirl moment on Swans: It is a beautiful, heartbreaking book, and I'm so glad that I read it. Thank you for writing it :)

[goldennemesis.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't remember where I found you... it was a couple of months ago, that's all I know. I am a freshman in college who is frighterned by the thought of not being able to read as much as I like to. I read Emerald House Rising when I was younger, and liked it muchly. I remembered your name, and recognized it whenever and wherever I saw your ID here on LJ. I keep reading it because I like to. :P

[mlleelizabeth.livejournal.com]

I should quit being so shy. *g* I know you from hpfgu way, way back when. I love your writing and your essays, so here I am.

[rhiannon333.livejournal.com]

How do I know thee? let me count the ways. I have been a lurker on HPFGU for getting on for three years, and always enjoyed your posts. Finding you were a fantasy author was a great plus, and I am sympathetic to and fascinated by your struggles with the muse. As a fellow working mother, I feel I can relate to many of your comments about juggling life, work, family etc. I wish I had been able to meet you at Nimbus, and hope I can do one day. Meanwhile I am enjoying your journal, and can easily understand why others would as well.

[slightlights.livejournal.com]

Mmm. (Megan, I'm going to tag along, because it's close and also because I get to say hello to you, too...) Ditto, but for HPFGU and working-outside-the-home part of working mother. In practice, you write interestingly and approachably, and seem very genuine, balancing 'sense and sensibility.' I like that.

[lapsus-0-calami.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh, I think I decided to 'friend you' because of some Jane Austen comments i read in your journal via pdcawley epicyclical or [Bad username or site: alexmalfoy's @ livejournal.com] friends...can't really remember. I love reading your entries because they are so 'literate' compared to many (most) journals, and although I don't write myself, I am an avid reader and it's fascinating to have a glimpse of how a writer works. I know I don't comment very often, please don't delete me!

[moonlight69]

I found your LJ from comments made by epicyclical, and friended it because The Wild Swans was a great book, and I wanted to find out more about you, because everyone on my flist that speaks of you does so very highly.

[nahkasiipi.livejournal.com]

I don't remember if I've properly introduced myself. *scratches her head* Well, I can do it now. :) I found your journal through vanityfair and epicyclical, I think. I heard them recommending The Wild Swans to others, bought it and am halfway through reading it. It's lovely! <3 I knew, after reading about three pages of it, that I'd definitely like it.

It's wonderful that I get to read the thoughts and happenings of a writer that I like. I wish more writers had journals (or maybe they do and I just don't know it...)

How I got here...

[mkathryn.livejournal.com]

I read some of your posts somewhere else in the fandom (probably a yahoo!group), read and loved Wild Swans, and then found out that you had a livejournal (probably from scouring friends lists of other famous fandom people) and had to go visiting. Why I stayed... Some of the stories about your daughters are the cutest things I've ever read, you seem really cool, and I like hearing about the book.

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Lessee, it was through yaandmgwriters that I found you and your own journal was very interesting so I added you. Then for a while, I felt like a stalker, 'cause I kept finding you in different places, which was very strange!

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

Friend of a friend: I had borrowed The Fox Woman from a friend, who point out that there was a journal for the author, and in fact that a coupla other authors had LJs, including you. So I lurked for awhile, and became fascinated with your documentation of the writing process, parenting methods, and Jane Austen icons.

And, 'cause, well, you rock. :)

[jingdono.livejournal.com]

Found you via epicyclical and just started reading. Giggled a lot, frowned a bit, found you very interesting, tried to hunt up a copy of Wild Swans but (alas) no luck yet (note to self: go hassle the guy at the Adelaide Booksellers again) and stuck around because of the entertaining RL entries which tend to anchor the rather hysterical remainder of my friends page.

[aynjel.livejournal.com]

Hmm....

Who am I... That's always a sticky question. A graduate of Clarion (east) 2000, writer of a bus pirates story that Strange Horizons published in February, writer of a story published (under a different name) in an erotica anthology. A technical writer by day, dealing with J.D. Edwards software (primarily) and managing a small team of tech writers and trainers across multiple projects. I've written 2 novels: one needs to be re-written from scratch, the other is off for consideration and I'm scared to death about it when I let myself think about it.

As for how I ended up reading your journal....

I was talking to my now-housemate (louisedunn) when I was visiting in January, or maybe it was February. She asked me if I was reading any writer-journals. I mentioned that I was reading Neil Gaiman's and she suggested yours, and Pamela Dean's. So I figured I'd check both of you out. And I stuck around. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who has doubts while writing, or who struggles while writing, or who has Really Good Moments(tm) while writing (Hey, Universe, if you're listening, I could use some of those RGMs right about now!).

[ascian.livejournal.com]

Man, I just made the same 'Who *are* you people?!' post on my LJ, and I've only got... 40? Dunno.

Okie, I'm Adam, and I *think* you friended me first. Or you posted in my journal, and I friended you, and you friended me. Either way, I suppose the question is, how did *you* find *me*?

As for why I keep reading your journal, it's your icon. Love the icon. Ice castle. Actually, I keep reading because I like your ideas and opinions, and it makes being A Novelist seem much more attainable to see the daily struggles of a likeable human being who happens to be one.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I don't "friend" people because my lj is just for making comments on the ljs of friends who have them closed, and my "real" journal is elsewhere. But I did bookmark and start reading you daily this week, because of _The Wild Swans_ and your webpage's summary of your upcoming book. And I found _The Wild Swans_ because I was homesick and looking at a list of MN speculative writers before we move back.

[kerri]

Hmm. Have I introduced myself yet? I don't know if I have or not... So here goes.

I'm Kerri, and I believe I found your journal when vanityfair made a post about your book, The Wild Swans. A friend of mine bought me your book, I read it and fell in love with it. I went out and found your journal again, friended it, and the rest is history. :D As for why I keep reading it? Well, as an aspiring writer I find whatever other writers have to say fascinating, especially when I've loved a book they've written as much as I loved The Wild Swans. And you're interesting - I love the way you talk about your kids, and what's going on in your life. So, here I am, still!!

:)

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I started reading Pamela Dean's LJ, and then added you and papersky. I know a lot of neopros, and it was interesting seeing that you (pl.) still can have the same problems writing as we do. Also, I am Not-a-Novelist, so watching novelists work is always sort of like a Aature special, only without the voice-over by David Attenborough.

[shusu.livejournal.com]

Way, way long ago I was on the LMB list and read Wild Swans because she recommended it. Then I found out you had an LJ and hopped at the chance to 1) read someone else in the agony / ecstasy of the writing process, 2) hope some of the coolness rubs off, 3) add to my collection of local LJs because we're all in this weather together.

I hope you don't mind, but I read one of your entries about being an emotional barometer to my mom, because she's not like that and I am. ^^ She said it made sense.

[minervacat.livejournal.com]

vanityfair posted about The Wild Swans and after I read it and was so blown away by it that I kept it for two weeks longer than the library wanted me to, I checked out your journal out of curiousity. Plus I'm a Carleton College alum, and so have a residual interest in all things Minneapolis, particularly the lovely collection of writers who seem to have gathered there. :)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

You're a Carleton alum? So is my husband. Have you read pameladean's book Tam Lin? It's a fantasy novel set at Carleton College, in the late 1970s (I think), except she calls it "Blackstock College." About my favorite book in the whole world.

hi!

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

Meant to do this the first time, but never got around to it. ^_^

I think diony first mentioned your blog, and I'd recently read The Wild Swans, and had just been home (North Dakota) so was missing Minneapolis (went to Carleton College) and well. It's been great fun reading about your work on the new novel, especially since I'm a great fan of reworked fairy tales, and have shelves of fairy lore and tales and whatnot. And all the HP stuff is fun, too! (just finished a third reread of 1-4 and am halfway through 5 for the second time) You definitely make me miss Mpls a good deal of the time, as well, and I love hearing about events you make it to.