Filters just weren't doing it for me

Dec. 13th, 2005 at 11:09 PM

So I've created a new LJ account, free at the moment, but I'll get it paid up if it seems to be working out.

There are so many authors who now host LiveJournals that I've found I really don't want to try to add them to this account. yes, I've used filters some before, but this method neatly sidesteps the whole "Friends? I've never even met them!" thing as well as letting me compartmentalize the different reasons I read journals.

readerofwriters will eventually list pretty much as many published science fiction, fantasy and horror authors as I find useful. I've scattered a handful there to start.

Any suggestions on who to add?

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singlemaltsilk

Dec. 14th, 2005 11:24 am (UTC)

You might want to check out

wen_spencer.

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minnehaha

Dec. 14th, 2005 02:44 pm (UTC)

Do you know that you can set up reading lists on LJ? So you can have one account, and two completely separate "Friends" lists of people to read.

B

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alicebentley

Dec. 14th, 2005 03:47 pm (UTC)

Um, no, I hadn't heard about reading lists.
I guess I should spend a little more time investigating the options already available.

On the other hand, maybe it will turn out to be a useful account for other people too. Not impossible.

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minnehaha

Dec. 14th, 2005 03:50 pm (UTC)

It's the only way I can survive LJ, specially since all of our posts are friends-locked. K and I can set up separate reading lists so we don't have to read the same people as each other. I have a list when I'm busy, made up of the people I'm actully friends with. And so on.

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minnehaha

Dec. 14th, 2005 03:45 pm (UTC)

sleigh.

matociquala.

pegkerr.

andpuff.

I don't know what your criteria are, but our friends list includes

mmerriam and

mrissa, who have both sold short stories, although I cannot say that I recognized the names of the buyers. They are each at the beginning of their writing careers.

There are probably others, but I'm not thinking of them right now.

K.

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minnehaha

Dec. 14th, 2005 03:55 pm (UTC)

willshetterly.

coffeeem.

1crowdedhour.

amy_thomson.

desayunoencama.

Undoubtedly there are dozens more, but someone else can play now.

K.

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sraun

Dec. 14th, 2005 06:18 pm (UTC)

LJ Accounts

ccfinlay,

kijjohnson,

kinzel,

mrissa &

rolanni

Feeds

emmabull_blog,

novel_gazing,

officialgaiman,

shetterly &

skzb

I'm not going to swear that all of the feeds are active.

Do you want me to spread the word that you're looking? Do you want just LJ blogs, or do you want RSS feeds also?

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alicebentley

Dec. 14th, 2005 06:53 pm (UTC)

I'll have to think about whether I would want to add feeds. Yes, they're useful. But I can see that quickly tipping into the "waaaay too many posts" land.

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sraun

Dec. 14th, 2005 08:24 pm (UTC)

What about spreading the word for you? I have 229 journals on my friends list, all but 68 (if I just counted correctly) are mutual. That covers four fairly distinct fannish groups - we overlap on my personal/convention fen group, and the GT group, but I've got a lot of journals I know through the Liaden and Bujold fandoms that you don't seem to link into.

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