Peripatetic Posting

Well my challenge entry for the LOTR Community January Challenge finally went up today, so I've posted it on various websites, as usual, for bumpage.

It's great fun to have a story in these challenges, particularly when friendly readers pat you on the back for it. They Might Be Giants is doing so well, other blog-reading sites have already picked it up. In some ways, it's a bit scary because I like to be in control of what's going on with my stuff. However, since it gives me the bumpage I crave, I can't complain.

It occured to me that posting stuff praising other people instead of simply pushing my own stuff adds as much to my bumpage as anything else, so I've started a new module on my Squidoo lens, Fanfiction Stories, News and Views, to promote great fanfic. Since my usual interest is Tolkien-based stories, I've added a link to the winner of Oct-Nov's Wicked Things Challenge on A Long Expected Contest, Oglat The Great.

I'll be adding more as time goes by, but my goodness, what a great crop of stories these sites attract.

Speaking of which, I'm waiting for the last entry to the Archives of Excellence January Writing Challenge, Before the Beginning, and when that's in, I'll post the polls so people can vote for the winner. It's always good to contact the winner to let them know they've won. Imagining their glee as they learn that they're a winner always makes me smile.

Which means more updating as I add the links and whatnots to the Archives. A woman's work is never done. Well, mine ain't!