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From abyssinia4077, Five Questions Meme

Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.
Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. ( Below the cut because I'm not brief )

I may be a bit slow to reply on this one, but never fear, I do intend to reply! It sounds like fun. From astrogirl2:
Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

From astrogirl2:

Comment to this entry and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:

1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?

Astro chose: SG1, Doctor Who, and Blake's 7. ( answers below the cut )

I've had a very busy week, so I didn't reply to anyone on the icon meme until today. Naturally, three people replied very quickly!

Rules:
1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
Note: some versions say "five," some say "six"; I plan to do five, but two of the people to whom I replied were doing six. If you want me to do six, let me know. (I realized after I'd replied to four people that I only have 52 icons, and those four people could conceivably pick 22 different ones, or nearly half my total. They haven't all chosen different ones, though.)

( Icons this way )

From quarryquest:

You Are a Playwright

You are a highly literate wordsmith. You love both reading and writing. You are also a natural storyteller. You can turn a mediocre anecdote into a riveting tale. You find people and all aspects of life fascinating. No topic is off limits for you. In modern times, you would make a good filmmaker or novelist.

That's . . . not what I expected.

Pictures of my LJ friends--gakked from tejas: ( behind the cut )

I was tagged by flingslass for this one:

Pick 10 people and give them the "you make my day" award. If you're picked, you are charged with picking 10 of your own.
I'll add a corollary: if you're too busy or just don't want to, you don't have to pick ten. You don't have to pick any if you don't want to! I just thought it would be ungrateful of me not to respond, although it's hard to pick just ten! Please don't be offended if you didn't make the list; I could easily have done fifteen or twenty! (And I'm not picking you, flingslass, simply because you're already listed here, now twice, so figured I've snuck in a bonus eleventh!) In fact, Brilliant Husband didn't even make the cut, because I tell him in person all the time! (so don't be offended, dudethemath!).

aurora_novarum
bentleywg
greyias
kalquessa
loriel_eris
lunachickk
nialla42
or_mabinogi
redbyrd_sgfic
sg_fignewton

From gatechic (be sure to check out hers, here):

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like many of my other friends have also done good posts and replies to
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From gatechic:

I am an OC Bookworm. (But wait! I got my PhD years ago!)

What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm   You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane.
Dedicated Reader
Literate Good Citizen
Book Snob
Non-Reader
Fad Reader
What Kind of Reader Are You? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

As I noted earlier, my LJ clocks in at a "post-graduate level".

or_mabinogi provided this link to a science blog with a little on readability scores, including how to get them. (They don't work quite the same in the older Word for Macs; I don't know if that's because it's older, or because it's for Macs. Anyway, here are the directions for the Word on my home computer, straight from Word Help:
Display readability statistics
1. On the Word menu, click Preferences, and then click Spelling and Grammar.
2. Select the Check grammar with spelling check box.
3. Select the Show readability statistics check box, and then click OK.
4. On the Tools menu, click Spelling and Grammar.
When Microsoft Word finishes checking spelling and grammar, it displays information about the reading level of the document.)

So, naturally, I ran my latest graduate assignment sheet through the Fleischometer, and came up with...a reading level of 10.0: start of tenth grade. Hmm, I said; that's a lower level than my blog. ( More fun with readability scores )