My birthday is in a few days...
I'll be 26 and am suddenly feeling very old. I've also been doing some thinking about my fanfic writing career, and I've come to a few decisions.
- I really need to improve my proofing skills and find a beta.
- No more exchanges or fests except for yuletide. At the end of the day, I don't like writing to order that much. The one exchange story I'm well and truly proud of is "My Father Before Me" and the idea of Cedric working in the Centaur Liaison Office predated the exchange by months. My recipients deserve better.
- Related to the above: I need to stop caring what people think and write what I want. Not quite sure how to do this, especially now that I'm in a smaller fandom and fixated on a less popular character. Which means having literally no audience for some of the things I want to write is a real and scary possibility. The pairing I really want to write has literally never been done. I feel like I should be writing Miranda/Shepard because there's so little good stuff, but I really want to write Miranda/Thane.
- I never wrote the sequel to that Peter/Felicia story. I feel terrible about that. But the story is so old, I wonder if I should bother.