On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Jenett <[email protected]> wrote: > I also tend to think that "Here's stuff I talk about a lot, and here's > stuff I'm interested in, but don't usually discuss" is - when it's > relevant and someone wants to be explicit - better shared in their bio > info or in a post on their journal, rather than trying to negotiate > via interest lists. (Unless one split interests entirely into "I'm > interested in reading about" vs. "I write a fair bit about..." Makes > for an interesting comparison to the watched/trusted split, actually.)
I would be delighted to see an explicit split between writing and reading interests. I can read SG-1 fanfic all day long, but won't write a bit of it myself. (Now watch my muses take that as a challenge.) That still doesn't cover personal interests (hobbies?) -- things that one does not necessarily enjoy reading or writing about, but enjoys doing oneself. I crochet. Reading other people write about crocheting for more than ten minutes a month bores me stiff. I may write one line in passing in a year about the phone cozy I crocheted myself when I realized I needed one but didn't want to buy one. Neither of those warrant inclusion in a writing-interests or reading-interests list, but it's still a quirk about myself that I would like to share with people who are interested in getting to know me. --Azz _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
