Whoah. Long time since my last update here. I've joined the dark side (also known as the whole online journal phenomenom) so I haven't felt the need to post here too. But I think I'm going to try to keep this thing up to date as well. The journal will consist of my normal, everyday stuff...and my blogspot will remain for when I'm musing on something.
I have so much I want to talk about that I don't know where to begin! Let's see...I think I'll talk about my online experience for a bit. I've been in the DBZ fandom for what semems like a really long time and I've met some real Grade A Asswipes but at the same time, I've met some really great people. Mostly reviewers. I love my reviewers. Really. But I never met writers who liked each other. It seemed that everyone on FF.net hated everyone else and the really popular authors were the ones who took their reviewers for granted.
When I first started writing, I was an innocent. Back then, I really was the nice girl. The first fanfic I wrote was sappy and OOC. It was one of those cliched fics where Bulma and Vegeta have a fight so he goes to Kakarot for help, blah, blah, blah they make up and everything's happily ever after *cringes*. I try to pretend it doesn't exist now. It gets worse. I wrote a poem *facepalms* I SOOOO cannot write poetry. I don't have the right mindset for it or something. By my third fic, I was older and a bit wiser. By then, I'd read a whole lot of fanfics (some good, some bad) and I decided I wanted to be different. And so President Briefs was born. It's okay...considering how old I was when I wrote it *shrugs*.
Next was Mind Games. My baby. I poured my heart and soul into that fic...and was rewarded for it. I had more reviews than in my last three fics combined. I didn't let it go to my head though. I continued reading and reviewing other people's works, chatting with "fans" and made sure I thanked everyone every chance I got for their praise. And then fanfiction.net deleted MG. Furious doesn't begin to describe how I felt just then. I wrote the site overseer, Xing, demanding to know why my story was deleted. Surprise, surprise. I never got a response. I packed my stuff up and moved to Mediaminer (they'd sent me an invitation to join before the FF.net fiasco ever happened but I hadn't really thought about it that much until just then).
And in all that time (over 4 years) I met some great people...but never kept in touch with them. Now...I'm a member of 4 message boards (at last count) and there are SOOO many people who I'd miss if I never heard from them again. My online friends have been a great source of laughter and support. I'm as close to some of them as I am to my RL best friends. So thanks guys. For putting up with my snark and my temper tantrums and my angst. And for liking me for me.
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