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I'm feeling pretty grumpy right now. And also pretty much disillusioned.
I've always been writing stuff (= stories, poems etc.), ever since I was 12 years old. And I would have thought I wasn't too bad a scribbler. I've won awards at poetry.com, and the Annual Story-writing Contests in my school. Every single issue of my school magazine (called ECHO) always included an editorial and story by me. My teachers and school friends definitely thought that I was a budding author.
And so, I was quite (not very much, but enough) pleased with my abilities in this field.
But everything went downhill, once I realized that I should post my fiction on http://www.fanfiction.com and http://www.fictionpress.com
You see, I was hopeful that people would read my stuff, and review it, and tell me what they thought about it. But all I got back were 5-6 reviews for about 30 pages that I wrote on Microsoft Word. And thats not much, because other writers there have about 10-15 for each chapter!
The statistics pages show that over 1000 people have read my stroy, but only 34 of them found it fit to review!
Is my story that awful? Do I write rubbish? The people who reviewd didn't think so, so I really don't know? I need to know what my mistakes are, so I can rectify them. But why don't people review what they read? Even if to flame it?
I think the main reason for this is my own doing.
My English teacher always said that a writer should always write for himself, not for others. The day you start writing to please others, will be the day you stop pleasing everyone. And that is the mistake I've committed.
Earlier I used to write for myself, for my own entertainment, as a hobby. Earlier, creative-writing was only an outlet for my imagination. But now, I write only for people on ff.com and fp.com and only for their non-existent reviews.,
That was my pitfall.
And to think that i devoted my precious hours over writing Harry Potter fanfiction that no one's going to remember, that has absolutely no use. After all, it isn't my plot, they aren't my characters. Who am I to rob JKR's theme, b/c I wasn't innovative enough to define my own one??
Is it worthwhile? Shouldn't I be studying, and making my career, than writing something for which no one is grateful?
From now on, I'm only going to write for myself, just to amuse myself. At least I'll be interested in reading it. And that's what counts, right Priya?
I've always been writing stuff (= stories, poems etc.), ever since I was 12 years old. And I would have thought I wasn't too bad a scribbler. I've won awards at poetry.com, and the Annual Story-writing Contests in my school. Every single issue of my school magazine (called ECHO) always included an editorial and story by me. My teachers and school friends definitely thought that I was a budding author.
And so, I was quite (not very much, but enough) pleased with my abilities in this field.
But everything went downhill, once I realized that I should post my fiction on http://www.fanfiction.com and http://www.fictionpress.com
You see, I was hopeful that people would read my stuff, and review it, and tell me what they thought about it. But all I got back were 5-6 reviews for about 30 pages that I wrote on Microsoft Word. And thats not much, because other writers there have about 10-15 for each chapter!
The statistics pages show that over 1000 people have read my stroy, but only 34 of them found it fit to review!
Is my story that awful? Do I write rubbish? The people who reviewd didn't think so, so I really don't know? I need to know what my mistakes are, so I can rectify them. But why don't people review what they read? Even if to flame it?
I think the main reason for this is my own doing.
My English teacher always said that a writer should always write for himself, not for others. The day you start writing to please others, will be the day you stop pleasing everyone. And that is the mistake I've committed.
Earlier I used to write for myself, for my own entertainment, as a hobby. Earlier, creative-writing was only an outlet for my imagination. But now, I write only for people on ff.com and fp.com and only for their non-existent reviews.,
That was my pitfall.
And to think that i devoted my precious hours over writing Harry Potter fanfiction that no one's going to remember, that has absolutely no use. After all, it isn't my plot, they aren't my characters. Who am I to rob JKR's theme, b/c I wasn't innovative enough to define my own one??
Is it worthwhile? Shouldn't I be studying, and making my career, than writing something for which no one is grateful?
From now on, I'm only going to write for myself, just to amuse myself. At least I'll be interested in reading it. And that's what counts, right Priya?