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A very merry (and early!) Christmas

A very merry (and early!) Christmas

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You know what December means? It means I’ve had this website for a year. Well, in two weeks that will be true, at least. And what that means is that I want to do some really special stuff for you guys to celebrate both the holiday and the anniversary.

The first of those things is that in addition to updating the monthly spotlights, as I do every month, I’ve created a little award for everyone who has been spotlighted in the past. Right now those awards are just stuck in a directory that you can access here, but I may create a little page to hold them all at some point in the future.

December’s spotlights, in case you don’t feel like going directly to the page to check them out, are as follows:

  • Author: Veronica, whose fic you can read here on LiveJournal
  • Website: Christmas Time, the advent calendar run by Becca
  • Story: Breaktown Records by Renee P.

    • My second little holiday surprise for you guys is a huge overhaul to the directory. Or, to be more accurate, the completion of the overhaul that has been in progress for several weeks now. I’ve separated the alphabetical listings into four pages rather than three, so less scrolling. And I’ve recounted all the sites so that the totals are now accurate. And, as always, I’ve added several new sites. With that comes an updated count of foreign sites, because that little statistic just fascinates me.

    Out of a total of 1462 sites, the foreign language sites are as follows:

  • Brazil — 42
  • Chile — 9
  • Costa Rica — 1
  • Czech Republic — 1
  • France — 1
  • Germany — 4
  • Indonesia — 1
  • Italy — 1
  • Mexico – 6
  • Peru — 1
  • Poland — 1
  • Puerto Rico — 1
  • Spain — 2

    • Isn’t that cool? I’m always amazed to find more Hanson sites from around the world.

    More Christmas surprises, some of which I haven’t even though of yet, to come!

    It’s November!

    It’s November!

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    …aka the month when fic writers everywhere go even more insane than usual! That’s right, it’s time for NaNoWriMo and once again, I’m participating, along with many other hanfic writers.

    That means that other updates to the site will be basically nonexistent, although I did get the new spotlights up late last night and added a few sites to the directory today (bringing it up to a total of 1112). Everything else, if there is anything else to add, will have to wait until I have time in December.

    NaNo was a brand new experience last year that really brought me a lot closer to the fandom. I was still sort of a new kid on the block then, or, more accurately, an old kid returning to the block. Participating in NaNo and the word sprints during that month helped me to make friends and really feel like part of the crowd.

    It’s been a year now and I’m arguably even busier now than I was then — and that’s saying a lot, since I’m effectively unemployed now and no longer in college. But I’m still going to try. I would encourage anyone who writes to try it at least once. It teaches you a lot about writing; the focus is all on quantity, not quality, and it forces you to get outside of your comfort zone. It is definitely tough, but I can assure you that at the end of it, you’ll be a different — and better! — author.

    If you aren’t doing NaNo already, it’s time to get planning for next year! You’ll be a whole twelve months ahead of the idiots like me who threw out their plans on October 31 and started from scratch.

    September Spotlights

    September Spotlights

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    I must be on a roll lately! I feel like I’ve done more coding in the four days than I’ve done in the past decade. Considering that I’ve had a website almost constantly since age 12, I’m probably wrong. But it certainly still feels that way and if I ever sleep again, I will probably dream in stylesheets.

    All that is to tell you that I’ve got the September spotlights posted up just on time and with a fancy smancy new layout for that section. Isn’t that nice? So go check out the details, but here’s a quick rundown:

  • Author: Evelyn, my newest hostee
  • Website: New LiveJournal community Hands Clean
  • Story: Is It Too Late? by Becca

    • So go read the interview, check out the website and story, then come back and tell me how awesome I am for making that new layout and still getting the spotlights up just a few short hours after September began.

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