Going well? Good.

[yuuago]

Well, well! So far, the fest is going even better than I had planned. I will not lie, I was kind of worried that nobody except my friends would be interested - but so far, there's over 25 people signed on for it, and the signup has only been open for a couple of days. It's a good sign. Unless a whole boatload of people decide to drop out, it looks like this will be a success - but I'm going to try to not count my chickens just yet, so to speak. Am I ever glad that I had the foresight to do up several prompt-lists ahead of time, though. Definitely saved me a lot of grief.

So glad to have a day off from work, though. Ten days in a row is just too much. I am going to laze around today and do absolutely nothing - except relax, and read as much as I like, and possibly go out for coffee. I have a new book on the Black Plague that I can hardly wait to start reading, not to mention sundry novels that I have here and there. (I really should think of putting together a box to take to the used bookstore, now that I think about it - I'm sure I have several that I've read once that I won't bother with again....)

I've been reading published fiction more than fanfiction these days, mostly because I've been finding it harder to concentrate on fanfiction for some weird reason. Very strange. Well, I'm sure it'll flip the other way eventually. My interests are very fickle and my attention span for things is constantly-changing.

Comments

[const-victoria.livejournal.com]

I was curious about the number of participants and whoa, that's great! Advertising via tumblr seems to have worked wonders. :) Not that there is anything wrong with tiny fests - there is a certain charm about them, actually, plus less hassle with organizing - but it's cool that so many people sre interested in Nordic-only event.

Have fun! Lazy days are delicious, especially with some Black Plague thrown in.

[yuuago]

Yess, it is *_* If it'd been small, that'd be fine, but this is far better than I'd hoped for.

I think advertising on Tumblr is definitely what did the trick - the fandom on LJ is much slower these days than it is on tumblr, and a lot of people who used to be on the LJ side of the fandom don't check it any more. :Va Well, regardless, we'll see.

If it takes off - and so far I think it will - then I'll be holding it again sometime (summer, maybe?) and... maybe even an exchange, because the nordic5_xmas wasn't held last year, and probably will not be this year either - but both of those are so far ahead that I'm not going to begin speculating yet.

[jaydestarlight.livejournal.com]

i can totally understand about reading more published fiction than fanfiction. for some reason, lately i've been finding it easier to focus on print novels.