But people keep calling my cell number asking me about it. Even got a couple calls from some of those shaddy scam artists who offered to resell it for me.

Obviously, someone has a typo in their classified ad. Not that I’ve had any luck Googling for it. Fortunately, I have a few spare minutes on the phone so it isn’t costing me anything.

But it is annoying. And I’m not taking messages. Wouldn’t know who to forward them to anyway. Sorry.

(And I’m sure whomever placed the ad wasn’t happy with the missed calls. Assuming they know about it by now.)

The “Cooking Channel”.

Like FoodTV used to be. Shows about cooking – people actually showing how to cook instead of many, many cooking competition type shows and uber-celebrity cook shows. Sure, they have a bunch of old shows mixed in with ones by refugees from FoodTV but at least they are about cooking. Good stuff.

Do I include a Xander in it or not? I can’t decide. I so rarely drag him into one of my fics. He gets a good bit in “Slayer Mercury” and he’s reasonably important in the Season 1 intro fic I wrote but usually he is off somewhere doing other things instead of hanging out with Buffy.

Of course, I haven’t figured out if Willow will show up either. Maybe.

And, occasionally, I will run across what I’m sure was an original idea of mine echoed in someone else’s fic. Flattering in some respects even though I’m sure the fic writer doesn’t know or realize that they aren’t the first writer to use that idea. (And I don’t have a big enough ego to think someone got the idea from one of my fics when I see it. It’s the “million monkey” theory of fic ideas. )

And original ideas? Not always good idea.

I think every fic writer has that one good idea. That idea that reaches beyond simple fan fiction and can grow into an original story.

I won’t say what mine is. Which fic I’ve written/am writing that I think would work as an original story. What plot idea is something I’m hoping to turn into something worth reading in a non-fan fiction kind of way.

Not something I get as a form of fic writing. (Sure, I’ve read a couple rpfs over the years but they just don’t work for me.)

It’s like writing an unauthorized biography of someone who is still alive and making most of it up based on a few known facts. Like a tabloid.

But, even if the public perceptions of most famous actors/athletes are the products of their agents/PR/media, often to the point that these people are playing a character based on themselves in public and we never know who they truly are, that doesn’t mitigate the overall creepiness I personally get from the idea.

I could never write an RPF myself. I value my own privacy too much to feel comfortable invading someone else’s privacy for my own entertainment. Public figure or not.