Still Around
I'm still here! I just don't have much time for blogging lately. ;w; I was using my LJ as a home-base for NaNoWriMo, so I have lots of entries, just private ones. ;3 I finished this year! 50,000 words and I'm still not even half-way done with the story.
Anyways, since some of you guys write fiction/fanfiction/etc, I just thought I'd share an observation. Isn't it so strange and fun when a story you've been working on goes live and you get to see everyone's reaction? I've been posting a story anonymously, and it's really becoming an interesting situation because some of my readers are getting hung up on a very small plot point that I had no intention of ever addressing again until I started getting comments on it. I never thought there would be any intrigue or confusion behind what I wrote, but there you have it. I'm not sure if this means I need to change it or if it's just honest curiosity, but it's always interesting to see what scenes resonate with people. It's also really fun when readers try to guess what will happen next. They're always wrong, so I wonder if that's a good sign? 8D
Anyways, it's kind of a rush when you send a story out into the world, but nerve-wracking too. I have a tendency to draw polite criticism, even though I've been posting on non-serious-business kink memes. I think I suffer from over-complicated plots and being too wordy. Being an artist actually makes it a little bit difficult to be a wordsmith because I have trouble refining how much detail I should and should not include. Is it a chair? Is it an elegant chair? Is it an elegant wing-backed chair with damask fabric and mahogany feet? XD I don't mind criticism on my writing as much as I mind getting criticism on my art, but I think I'll hang up my author-hat for a while after this. It's fun but off-putting sometimes, and I'm too tender-hearted for another source of criticism in my life. XD
Also, I got into graduate school. Kind of important news for a footnote-sized comment, but I thought I would mention it. :D