Stories

It's been a while, hasn't it? I'm sorry I didn't mean to. Life just got away from me and things are pretty mundane now. I know right? Mundane? Then you should update more! How dare you leave this place unattended for almost half a year.

Well then, let me get you up to speed with what has happened recently.

One of the biggest things, I can say, is that I've started writing again. Stories, I mean. I've started to write stories again. I recently made a new friend on twitter and she's a writer herself, having written some stories a fandom that I'm currently in. So yea, long story short, she sort of encouraged me to pick it back up and it was really nice. Like, I've never had anybody encourage me to write before. Well there was that one time where Endymion was like "you do it for yourself" when i asked who am I doing this for because the friend that i supposedly wrote stories for didn't bother to leave comments and I get dishearten to write most of the time. So yea, he told me to "write for myself" and while that comment worked for a while, it doesn't keep a pessimistic person like me going for a long time.

The middle of last year I put up one of my old drafts on a popular fic site and it was quite well received. My audience base is very small, being a no-name writer and all, but there were some feedback and I was quite happy with it. It gave me a confidence boost. But it still doesn't mean anything because that piece of work was written years ago. I haven't written anything substantial in the recent years.

A few days ago I brought out another old draft but rewrote almost 60% of it. I wasn't very confident in it but my new friend said that it was good and it fucked her up (it was a tragedy) for quite a few hours. I got a bit of my confidence back because it was something that I had just written, even though the idea was from an old draft but I basically renovated the entire thing to fit the current fandom I've written it for.

So yea, feedback is really important. I didn't even get a single comment from when I was posting my stories here. It was really discouraging.