unfinishedtales

Unfinished Tales is rowyn's journal of unfinished bits and pieces. Some of these bits are longer than others, but most of them (yes, even Silver Scales) are not neatly-plotted stories with beginnings and endings that I knew at the outset. This journal was intended to take the place of an offline journal I used to use for whatever fictionlets popped into my head.

This journal is not public, and I never intend to make it public. This is partly for legal reasons (in theory, I cannot sell "first publication" rights to a work that has already been made publicly available online, and it's possible that I'll some day sell one or more of the stories that have started out here.) But it's mostly for psychological reasons. I want to know who my audience is. I can't adequately explain why this is important to me. If I'd sold a story to a magazine or a novel to a publisher, I would be delighted to have hundreds of thousands of total strangers buying and reading it.

But, for some reason, this is different to me. I want to know who's reading here.

To that end, I'm asking for a roll call here: If you are on the UT friends list, and you wish to stay on it, please leave a note on this entry. (Yes, obviously, I already know that some of you are following along quite eagerly, but to avoid singling people out I'm not going to list off names one way or the other here.) :) If you've not left many comments on the journal so far, I'd appreciate hearing why you want to stay on -- ie, if you're reading along quietly, or reading only certain kinds of stories, or waiting for that elusive day when you have enough free time to catch up, or you're worried it'll hurt my feelings if you drop the journal, or whatever reason you might have. :)

In a week or two, I'll purge off the list any one who hasn't left a note. I'll leave this entry public, so if you've been removed and want back on, you can still leave a note.

Please note: my feelings will not be hurt if you're not reading the journal or if you don't want to stay on the list. I'm not dropping anyone off my own reading list based on this. Believe me, I've had my own share of mental blocks for not reading someone else's fiction -- often even fiction that I knew was good and that I'd enjoy. I would be the worst sort of hypocrite if I held not reading against anyone else.

And, as I note above, this isn't a requirement that you read all or any of the entries. I just want to know that you're out there. :)

On a related note, prompted by the whole "Friendsditto" flap: please do not share the entries here with anyone who's not on the UT friends list.

Last: if you're reading this and not on the UT friends list, but would like to be added, please let me know. However, please be aware that if I don't already know you or read your journal, I probably won't add you. Nothing against you and no insult intended -- it's just that this is private for me. Ironically, more private than my journal about my life is.

Also, if you wish to email me privately rather than leaving a note, for some reason, feel free to do so. My email is rowyn AT liveREMOVEthisPARTjournal.com