Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll

[Lumière]

Hello folks!

Bye folks!  Just popping in for a minute to say Hi before I log off again..
I am still not caught up..coz I've been busy with other things ~ cleaning my place, buying groceries..etc, etc..

Till later..! 

[louisev]

whoo hoo!

Ennis and Ellery is #4 in replies, and #2 in views.  Holy mackerel folks!  Do you suppose this is "Lurker's Paradise" ?

Just a warning for tomorrow. I have never had root recision surgery done.  It might not be any big deal, and it might be really bad.  This is what I have been moaning and groaning over for the past ten days or so, and I have booked off work for two days in anticipation of a rocky recovery.  So I managed to get a couple of chapters of "The Long Way Home" started off, and am still pondering the logistics of the trip up Brokeback, and there is a possibility of my not being able to write for a day or two.

So keep the fan art coming, and look for me in Chat because I may not be able to sleep much in the next couple of days, and keep your fingers crossed for me!

[Lumière]

Louise, I know you don't need it, but
Best of Luck tomorrow!! 

Keep dreaming of these two..

[ranchgal]

Louise--best of luck--please take it easy---and be well again!!
thinking of you!

[Quiplash]

Hello Louise, hello all,

Well, as I promised, here's my first fanart for the Laramie Saga:






(I found a great shot of Heath and I got creative.  Click image to go to my Flickr page with various sizes of this photo.)

  --Ryan Schultz (Quiplash).

[louisev]

folks:  my surgery is over, it's over, it's over, it's over.  Thank god amighty! it's OVER.

[louisev]

Okay....

I just blazed through 34 NEW LJ comments, some of them ranting and poisonous and others heartfelt and courageous, and I guess there's just no reins on this one!  I am sort of mildly flattered about the firestorm of comments, and immensely impressed by the heartfelt fan response you guys have made, and I don't want you to think I am upset or angry about the commentary, because any comment is better than indifference.  One has to question the motivation of those who would read a half a million words of a story that gets them frothing-at-the-mouth angry, however.  It does seem rather contradictory.

I am mildly tempted to delete the Anons that are so negative about the story, but without locking down the configuration of my profile to prohibit anonymous comments, that is rather a useless act.  So I would like some input from you readers, because I know some of you are disturbed about the anonymous commentary and rants as well:

Should I reconfigure my LJ page to prohibit anonymous comments, or let'er rip?

[opinionista]

Okay....

I just blazed through 34 NEW LJ comments, some of them ranting and poisonous and others heartfelt and courageous, and I guess there's just no reins on this one!  I am sort of mildly flattered about the firestorm of comments, and immensely impressed by the heartfelt fan response you guys have made, and I don't want you to think I am upset or angry about the commentary, because any comment is better than indifference.  One has to question the motivation of those who would read a half a million words of a story that gets them frothing-at-the-mouth angry, however.  It does seem rather contradictory.

I am mildly tempted to delete the Anons that are so negative about the story, but without locking down the configuration of my profile to prohibit anonymous comments, that is rather a useless act.  So I would like some input from you readers, because I know some of you are disturbed about the anonymous commentary and rants as well:

Should I reconfigure my LJ page to prohibit anonymous comments, or let'er rip?

Hey Louise,

How did the surgery go? Hopefully everything went well. I can't believe people are still ranting about the new book. Why can't they just stop reading and leave us alone? Prohibiting annon comments may not be a bad idea, actually. But I think it depends on how much the mean comments bother you. If they bother you too much, go ahead and do whatever you have to do to prohibit those comments. After all, I still think it's just one person making a lot of noise.

[opinionista]

PS. Louise, I just went to see the angry comments back at LJ, and I think it's a troll. I remember some troll back in IMDB who used to open threads wrting that Ennis killed Jack and crap like that. I'm not sure if anybody else remember it, but I think I do. So, don't waste your time with that idiot. He can easily visit this board as a guest, scan this thread for details about the chapters, and go to LJ to post nasty annon comments to piss us off.

[MaineWriter]

Louise,

Because it is your LJ, can't you just delete individual comments? I personally don't like doing that because is smacks of censorship, but I agree with Natali, this might be a troll. If that were the case on my LJ, I might start by deleting the comments, before making the decision to not allow anonymous comments all together.

Leslie
PS...Surgery is over and you are posting so obviously you survived in one piece. Yeah!