A request for the floor.

[seanan_mcguire]

People of the Internet, please, please, please, when you use my website contact form to get in touch with me, please include an address so I can respond to you? Sending me messages with blank "from" lines just means...

a) I can't answer, even if you ask direct questions, and
b) I get really frustrated, because I at least try to answer all my mail.

So please, please provide me with an email address so I can answer you. It makes things a lot more stressy when you don't.

Thanks.

Comments

[jacylrin.livejournal.com]

What? You don't know EVERYthing?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Not yet, anyway.

[catnip13.livejournal.com]

Your webmaster most likely can set up the form to ask again if someone tries to submit it without an email address. It might be beneficial for your sanity.

[valdary.livejournal.com]

Yes, It would definitely be a good idea to have email addy as a required field

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*nods* My thoughts exactly. Except I would code it to refuse the entire thing. That's just me. I'm mean.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

This is not an option.

[mariadkins.livejournal.com]

um. why?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Because of code reasons.

[mariadkins.livejournal.com]

that's really odd. i know your site isn't built with wordpress like mine but i have a contact plugin that lets me configure however i want it to - mostly to keep spammers from annoying the hell out of me. it can't be that hard to make a line with email as a required field. one of my friends handbuilt his contact page. i can find out what he did.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Mari, please don't take this the wrong way, but no, thank you. There are a great many factors involved in maintaining my website, which is constructed in CSS and has a hand-coded back end. It is not currently possible; when it is possible, my webmaster will handle it; I really don't want to go into detail on why I cannot make an on-the-fly code demand, and I don't want to confuse things with outside code.

Thank you for understanding.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

This is not an option.

[hamletkitty.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Was I one of the naughty ones?

Damn that multi-tasking.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I don't know! Did you thank me for the 50 Thoughts on Writing?

[hamletkitty.livejournal.com]

I did! And for being a role model for 3 year olds who want to have sparkles and reptiles.

I am a bad fan girl. Perhaps that is why I have a kitty scratch across the top of my foot. Kaylee wasn't be a pest, she was being bad internet karma. I'll have to apologize to her tonight.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Cats as instant karma! Awesome.

And it's okay, really; it's just frustrating, 'cause I want to be good and offer answers. Did you see the 50 Follow-Up Thoughts?

[hamletkitty.livejournal.com]

She was an extra pesky this morning, which is not so good for me. Not a morning person! How did I end up with not just the morning cat, but a morning hound too! At least the child, husband and other hound are also not morning people.

I don't think I saw the 50 Follow-Up Thoughs. Reading all the follow up comments now.

I need t memory that thread, so that if E does get grief for being an all-around-person, I can show her that other people say it's ok. Not just her family!

My private e-mail is the same is the lj one. hamletkitty at yahoo

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww, pokey kitty.

Scritch her for me.

50 Thoughts on Writing

[mackatlaw.livejournal.com]

That was me, late last night after/while teaching my English 101 class. I was on an endorphine high, so might not have filled the email addy thing out. :) Apologies! My email is mknopf@gmail.com .

I have the printout of your 50 thoughts sitting on my desk near one of my copies of Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style". I say this not to be a totally fan-boy (though I really really liked "Feed"), but because your thoughts are so helpful. In particular, I liked the essay about the distinction between being a writer and between being a novelist. (I am the former, wanting to be the latter.) I've written all my life and even made a living as a reporter, but have yet to complete a work of novel-length. Ambition is a good thing, though I'm a relative dilettante.

Did I say Feed was great? It's the newest, most refreshing thing I've read in a while. Okay, now I need to get back to the law work now...

Mack

mknopf@gmail.com

Re: 50 Thoughts on Writing

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. :) For all of this. It's very sweet.

[drakemonger.livejournal.com]

You try to answer every email you receive?

It's probably fortunate that I'm far lazier than the wicked aspects of my imagination...

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I stop answering if people are clearly messing with me. :P

[dimloep-suum.livejournal.com]

Better that than unleashing the pandemic.