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Eep! I swear I won't whine about my backlog scroll. It could be much much worse. [livejournal.com profile] hrj just got her Laurel scroll from 25 years ago!
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[identity profile] hrj.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That isn't really an accurate description these days. The backlog is much smaller than it used to be. Scribes get quite a bit of attention these days (and have for some time now). And it's becoming a much more regular occurrence to have the "real" scroll finished for awards above the AoA level. There aren't very many items left in the backlog as old as mine was except for recipients who haven't been active for a long time.

If I'd made an active fuss about wanting it done, it would have happened earlier -- I just always figured that with all the scribes I hang out with, somebody would have wanted to do it. (And besides which, I take the position that scrolls are gifts -- not something owed. And then there's that little issue of my own backlogged scroll assignments ....)

[identity profile] msmemory.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
The "owed" part of mine is that I paid at a fundraiser auction to have it done by a particular scribe. If it were a regular old backlog, I suspect I could dragoon my protegee, or one of several other scribes who might see this conversation, into doing it. Oh well, I got the pretty hat (it's my court barony).
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[personal profile] mermaidlady 2007-05-08 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, that was during the Reign of No Scrolls. : ) I'm still waiting on my Manche scroll from the same Court.

[identity profile] baron-steffan.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn, and I was rather proud of the wording I did for that.

[identity profile] msmemory.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
You wrote the wording, I found a couple of illuminations in the general style I am dreaming of - it need not be a copy of any of them. AFAIK it's all in the hands of the scribe. I have vowed never to mention it again to R since she started flinching when she saw me. But I am delighted you kept a copy of the text!

[identity profile] cvirtue.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm very glad to hear that the situation has improved since we left!

We hung out often with many of the Mists scribes, when we were there, and it was generally held to be like my former description, at that time. (My lord was, for a time, the head of the Mists scribes; I forget the position name.)

Even "raised" in the East, I agree that scrolls are gifts.

[identity profile] goldenstag.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be "Seawolf Scribe" ...

At the time, things were different. Juana made some inroads in fixing the backlog, but Aja really hit it hard, and then Eliska, the current Chancellor has followed Aja's lead, and has been quite innovative in handling some of the issues.

Reducing the backlog

[identity profile] metageek.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Juana made some inroads in fixing the backlog,

Yeah, so did I, with the Mists backlog. I did scrolls more quickly than was the average at the time (plus I could assign to myself, which cut down on turnaround time :-), and I got some help from friends in Atlantia and the East. After about 6 months as Seawolf Scribe, I found that I had run out of the subcategory "backlog scrolls for which we actually have contact info", and had to post asking people to come ask for their scrolls.

That (I presume) was why I got my GoA, and wound up on the backlog myself. ;-)

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