Writing is a process that often undergoes heavy edits… that includes responding to feedback.
I had no idea this post would resonate with so many people. I let my vitriol surrounding several comments I received on a recent update get to me and it spilled out into .gif form and it’s now morphed into the most widely shared thing I’ve ever posted. So many comments and tags have said things along the lines of, “This was why I quit writing” or “This is why I hate writing fanfic.” And that’s soul crushing to hear, but I can relate.
But while there are some crappy and entitled readers, there are also many brilliant ones and I’m so grateful for them. The huge response to this post made me go back and skim through the comments on my old stories, and comments like the one below are about half the reason some of those stories got finished, even if it was months later.
Comments like these are so rare, but when they do come up, they leave me staring at my computer screen, drumming my fingers on the keyboard, struggling to convey my feelings about how their words have touched my heart. These are the comments that take the longest amount of time to respond to and the ones that cause me to wear out my backspace key the fastest.
It’s easy to complain, but it’s literally just as easy to praise, so I just wanted to take a moment to recognize all those dear and dedicated readers who have propped me up when I wanted to quit. Readers like you are why I keep writing, and why I even feel honored to do it on rare occasion.
And fellow writers, keep your heads up if you can. 🙂
Just give me furniture to overthink the arrangement of all day and I will occupy myself and be happy about it
Honestly, I downloaded a free map maker to plan out cities for the world I built to write stories for, and this is how I feel all the time. I absolutely adore making sure every building, tree, and road is absolutely perfect.
Ooh what is this program?? That sounds amazing and super useful!
Its called Cityographer! Its pretty basic, and takes some getting used to, but its lots of fun and its free!!! Here’s the map I’m working on now:
Pretty simple because its my first-attempt map and probably won’t be considered for an actual city in my fictional world, but I’m getting all sorts of ideas for the legitimate cities 😀 Its terribly exciting.
I’m sure there are better map makers out there, but this was the best I could find for free 🙂
Awesooooome! Thanks so much! I’m going to reblog this onto my writing blog as well.
gifted student™ brains are about as functional as horses when you get right down to it
which sounds like a shit post but consider: horses? hypothetically MADE for running. look at this magnificent muscle beasts. look at those legs. they must be so good at running, right? wrong. horses are fragile as fuck. horses break their gotdamn legs so so easily, and if they break their legs you just have to fucking shoot them. if they run, the thing they are MADE FOR, too fast their lungs will start bleeding. I just googled horses to see if I was missing anything and apparently if they lie down for a day their organs start collapsing or something so they can’t rest from their One Horse Purpose even when they’re hurt. they’re made to do one thing but they can only do it under Very Specific Conditions and if a single thing changes they just die.
which, you know. gifted students™ get applauded for being naturally smart when we’re five or whatever and then develop a terrible inflated sense of self that makes us highly averse to anything we’re not naturally good at, because it challenges our fragile childbrain egos and if we wait too long we’ll develop mental fences around entire subjects and skillsets (mine are math and studying) because we think we’re Bad at them, when in reality we just need to practice but are frustrated by that because it’s harder than being ~naturally talented~ was. we get applauded for doing One Thing but the second we run into slightly different things that our brains don’t comprehend as readily? it’s a Bad Time. I still have so much anxiety over things I don’t feel Naturally Talented at that I’ve been sitting here writing this post for like 10 minutes rather than read the feedback on my religion paper. I got a 100% on it, but I’m still That Scared of anything other than straight heaps of praise because that’s what my childbrain was acclimated to. just send me to the glue factory already.
I know most of my bi positivity posts are specific to bi women, but each and every example of bisexuality is important and valid, whether it be women, men, non-binary individuals, or anyone, anywhere that identifies as bisexual.
looking at international catspotting blogs ive noticed a #pattern… in Poland theres proportionally a lot of longhaired cats and tabbies and black n white cats….. in japan theres so many cats that are calico or majority white with tabby spots…
I know vikings really liked ginger cats and the original mutation began in Denmark. They liked their feisty nature and the fact they matched many of the people’s hair colour. They took them along on ships so that’s why the UK and other European countries have many gingers. Think they also took forest cats too
this is the history im interested in thank you so much i love this
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