Fic Update: Action Figures Sold Separately
Action Figures Sold Separately
Chapter 4 (On AO3 and FFNet)Another... two and a half years, another chapter. The bad news is that it's admittedly a little rough, after so long. I'm a bit rusty. The good news is that I have a solid plan for the next two chapters and have started Chapter 5 already. Hopefully I'll be back to my regular 10K a chapter ( Read more... )
Chapter 4 (On AO3 and FFNet)Another... two and a half years, another chapter. The bad news is that it's admittedly a little rough, after so long. I'm a bit rusty. The good news is that I have a solid plan for the next two chapters and have started Chapter 5 already. Hopefully I'll be back to my regular 10K a chapter ( Read more... )
Yes, I feel like I should probably pull all mention of Uchitachi from the web, but I don't know if I even still have those old chapters to re-upload with revisions, which is why I've never done it. That was many compters and an OS system ago. I'm a PC person but at that time I was using a Mac, so even the saved files are in a weird format I don't think I can access.
Story-wise, I didn't even have an idea what would happen in Uchitachi when I was writing Bushido and Shidachi, it was more of a challenge to myself to see if I could do it (ie write a trilogy) and a vague plan. In my defense I was probably about 16 at the time.
And yes, we should all try to do what we love as much as we can. Congrats to you for looking at that horse and making a grab for the saddle! I'm not in high school and college with free time anymore, hence the lack of writing in... recent decades, oh my God, now I feel old. The last seven years have been especially interesting, in taking my free time away. But I've reached a point where I want to write more than read (which I've been doing as escapism for far too long). So I'm going to run with it.
Don't cringe at your prior writing. I understand the impulse, believe me I do. But without those baby steps you wouldn't be further along to where you are today. And it _is_ further along, even though you may feel like you backslid with your hiatus. I don't know about you, but time away gives me more knowledge and perspective, and lets me come back with fresh ideas and concepts. It's usually a good move to take a break. And yes you come back rusty - boy did I feel it in this last chapter posted - but that's not a bad thing and it's still movement forward and practice from where you were before. Be proud of your prior writing, however cringe-worthy you now think it was. It's part of your learning process and no one gets to dictate to you how you progress in your skills unless you want them to. ;)
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Though after coming back from so long, I need to figure out the import function on the new version of FFN.
I was zooming with my friends and we all realized that we could now count our friendship that started in college in decades. We were all blown away. XD
Thanks for the advice!
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And haha yes my college friends and I had that same revelation recently, especially when we looked around and saw spouses, kids... throws the mind for a loop!
And honestly I like no author's notes. the only reason they're even in there is because I was doing what everyone else was doing in terms of formatting as I tried to figure FFN out. Now that I'm more secure in my own writing product, I hate them in other people's works. They really throw you out of the flow of a story when you're reading it all in one clip and not checking in for the episode of the week, as it were. But they are likely stuck on FFN to stay, as an artifact of a bygone era, lol.
Hang in there and have a great weekend!
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