Postcard shards
Oct. 4th, 2006 06:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaI am doing a meme I have seen elsewhere, but adjusted for my own purposes. Because I will really hardly ever copy something verbatim and put it in this journal -- my promise to you. No matter how much I agree with it. So here's the version I'm doing:
The first five people in thecontinental postal US* to respond in a comment to this post, will get a postcard with a fragment of fiction on it. No one else will get your fragment or any other fragment from the same work. You have to either send me your address or verify that I already know it if you want a random piece of Mris-fiction to show up in your mailbox. You can specify genre or even sub-genre if you like, although if I feel I know you well, I may have ideas about what will make you go, "Oooh, shiny."
In addition, up to two people from outside thecontinental postal US can get the same deal. It's just that I had five boring blank USPS postcards and five extra-bit stamps to make them go, so people outside the US will -- sorry, US residents! -- get better postcards.
If the five ("Seven, sir!") seven spots are already taken, you can still comment here, and I will do this until I get sick of it. Or you can just e-mail me off lj, especially if you (this is rather poor timing, considering yesterday's spam stuff) don't have an lj. But the firstfive seven are guaranteed.
You do not have to send me a postcard snippet of fiction back, but anyone who wants to be nice to a![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrissa could consider this a method.
*Postal US includes anything that's a flat US mailing rate: military bases and diplomatic postings included, as long as the address is an American address and not one local to where you currently are.redbird pointed out to me that HI is not extra just because there's a lot of ocean to haul the mail across.
Edited, 9:20 a.m.: As of 9:20, I have the five promised US posts, plus one of the two promised "foreign" posts. (Most of Canada is less foreign to me than Tennessee, but never mind that now.)sartorias resorted to bribery: she has promised to send $10 to the John M. Ford Memorial Foundation if I sent her one. People, bribery works. I didn't start this as a fundraising post, and it's not going to become a solely fundraising post, but hey, if you're willing to do like sartorias, I guarantee you a snippet of postcard fiction.
You still do need to send me your address, though.
The first five people in the
In addition, up to two people from outside the
If the five ("Seven, sir!") seven spots are already taken, you can still comment here, and I will do this until I get sick of it. Or you can just e-mail me off lj, especially if you (this is rather poor timing, considering yesterday's spam stuff) don't have an lj. But the first
You do not have to send me a postcard snippet of fiction back, but anyone who wants to be nice to a
mrissa could consider this a method.*Postal US includes anything that's a flat US mailing rate: military bases and diplomatic postings included, as long as the address is an American address and not one local to where you currently are.
redbird pointed out to me that HI is not extra just because there's a lot of ocean to haul the mail across.Edited, 9:20 a.m.: As of 9:20, I have the five promised US posts, plus one of the two promised "foreign" posts. (Most of Canada is less foreign to me than Tennessee, but never mind that now.)
sartorias resorted to bribery: she has promised to send $10 to the John M. Ford Memorial Foundation if I sent her one. People, bribery works. I didn't start this as a fundraising post, and it's not going to become a solely fundraising post, but hey, if you're willing to do like sartorias, I guarantee you a snippet of postcard fiction.You still do need to send me your address, though.
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Date: 2006-10-04 11:59 am (UTC)A second comment from the same person, just to throw your numbers off.
Date: 2006-10-04 12:01 pm (UTC)Genre: you pick, please.
Address: will e-mail to you.
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Date: 2006-10-04 01:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 12:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 12:05 pm (UTC)I think you have my address. Anything you send will make me happy.
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Date: 2006-10-04 01:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 12:15 pm (UTC)[Random note: on the off chance you have anyone reading this from Hawaii, they get mail at the same rate as the continental U.S.]
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Date: 2006-10-04 01:30 pm (UTC)And you're right, and so do the military bases and diplomatic postings; I will change it.
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Date: 2006-10-04 12:25 pm (UTC)(I knew there had to be a good reason my brain insisted on routing me out of bed at this hour...)
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Date: 2006-10-04 01:30 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-04 12:51 pm (UTC)sevenfive commentors, but if you don't run out of steam before you get to me, I like the idea.no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 01:09 pm (UTC)Address is here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/lovecraftienne/163478.html).
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Date: 2006-10-04 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-04 02:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 02:26 pm (UTC)Let me see if I can get the spouse to unpocket a fin and make it twenty.
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Date: 2006-10-04 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-08 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 03:14 pm (UTC)Either way: this idea is clever!
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Date: 2006-10-04 03:48 pm (UTC)The only question for you is how to most effectively taunt the Karina. Hmmmm.....
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Date: 2006-10-04 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 04:52 pm (UTC)(I already did contribute to the library fund, so can't use that as bribery - or rather I already did, to Jo Walton.)
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Date: 2006-10-05 12:21 am (UTC)Extra-planar requests?
Date: 2006-10-04 07:22 pm (UTC)I'm oft considered to be in a separate plane than my associates, friends and coworkers (they assure me that this is NOT a good thing). Are you doing any mailings to beings considered to be "out there"?
:-)
Of course the address will be a standard street address, but once taken from the mailbox the message will begin its transcention (okay so this isn't really a word - but it's cool!) to that strange gray fog known as my perception of reality.
What the heck - I had to try. Or resort to bribery. I *could* send you a recipe for Ooey Gooey Pumpkin Cake. It's delicious but is a Tennessee Heart-Stopper with 2 full sticks of butter.
Galaxus