AO3
My lovely friend cali_se gifted me with an invite to AO3 for my birthday and I've just been trawling through 90 F/S fics picking out which ones to upload. Its taken me two days to sort out, but I'm really glad I've done it.
It's a strange feeling, reading through works you wrote years and years ago. At first I almost felt like I didn't want to look at them - it felt a bit like reading an old diary, there was something too odd and intimate about it (and didn't I write a lot of NC-17's!!!) But once I got over my squeamishness, it proved quite encouraging. Some stories I found I had completely forgotten, and were quite a surprise.
I've been so overtaken with my seperation and new job that my life seems to have been highjacked and reading these back reminded me how important this aspect of my life was (and still is) but has been suffocated lately by too much work and worries. I've reduced my working hours this week and feel a lot better for it, and I am trying to leave one day a week free for a return for writing. Without it I feel as if I have only one dimension and a piece of me remains unfulfilled. I know, especially, as a single mum, that work is important, and I'm doing two jobs at the moment, but I need to make time for this, or else life is not complete.
It's a strange feeling, reading through works you wrote years and years ago. At first I almost felt like I didn't want to look at them - it felt a bit like reading an old diary, there was something too odd and intimate about it (and didn't I write a lot of NC-17's!!!) But once I got over my squeamishness, it proved quite encouraging. Some stories I found I had completely forgotten, and were quite a surprise.
I've been so overtaken with my seperation and new job that my life seems to have been highjacked and reading these back reminded me how important this aspect of my life was (and still is) but has been suffocated lately by too much work and worries. I've reduced my working hours this week and feel a lot better for it, and I am trying to leave one day a week free for a return for writing. Without it I feel as if I have only one dimension and a piece of me remains unfulfilled. I know, especially, as a single mum, that work is important, and I'm doing two jobs at the moment, but I need to make time for this, or else life is not complete.