Learning Things & Various Thoughts
I have learned a few things since forming my own community.
1) Word will spread. If you want it to, it will. If, eventually, you stop wanting it to, it will. Word will spread. (I haven't reached the point that I want it to stop, btw. ^^ I love finally having ppl to talk about The Dark is Rising series with!)
2) You will find that people's takes on the subjects are a LOT different from yours. (I had never, EVER thought of Will and Bran being gay before...very different train of thought from mine.)
3) People will give you plugs in their journals if they like your topic. This increases memebership. Hence, I'm happy because that means more discussion.
I also learned things about other people's community.
1)Always read the fine print! Or, in this particular case, the back print! (Aka earlier posts). Get a better feel for the community before you jump in with both feet. (Luckily, it won't matter so much this time...but a shock is a shock).
2) People perceive things WAY differently from you. Waaaaaayyyy differently.
3) Roleplaying comes in lots of forms
4) I must become a lot better versed in the ways of the English. (Shoort, and the Welsh too. :P)
I really like how thedarkisrising is going, though. I'll have to go and check how many people are members now, but it increases daily. I have to find my questions that I'd written to Susan Cooper yeeeeeaaaarrrrs ago. *Shrugs* But anyways, enough about my community. XD
Life is fine. It's been really quiet online today. Even now...it's 9:15 and no one's trying to talk to me. It's almost odd. Everyone on my buddy list is away, and this is mainly because the two people on my list are both "away". So I can sit back, quietly, and write in my LJ. Nice. Very nice. A quiet moment at home. *Smiles*
*Yawns and stretches* I should do some writing. Need to work on my other community, too. I'm really trying to get back into writing. This research paper really frustrated me, when I spent 4 hours on 5 pages because I couldn't get it exactly right. Mind you, non-fictional has always been harder for me. I'd much rather do subjective writing to objective. And I'd rather do fictional than anything else.
I think part of it is that I've really been thinking about what am I good for. Colleges have been mailing me to the point where my organizer is full. Freakin' full. I keep answering that my Major/Career interests are Foreign Language (Spanish), History, Music-Vocal, but lately I've put Creative Writing as well. I don't want to lose my ability to write, which I've put on the back burner since 8th grade. I seem to be under this delusion, too, that I'll have more time in the summer or more time in college. Pfft. I have to come to grips with the reality that if I want to keep the talent, I'm going to have to start using the talent. I read a lot, so it's not like I've lost the knowledge of how it should go. It's that I haven't taken the time to sit down and type. Type for myself and not just re-mastering something I've recently read and basically regurgitating it in a different way.
Anyways, enough insight from me. Maybe this will be good for me, being an LJ Community owner, is all I'm saying.
I may post a bit more later. But for now, so long...
Rae-Rae @-}--
PS. Got a new icon. Doesn't fit my present calm and peaceful moood (I think it will be my angry icon instead of the Ring of Power now...my evil icon). Tell me what you think. ^^ (I love you guys at animeicons. ^^)
1) Word will spread. If you want it to, it will. If, eventually, you stop wanting it to, it will. Word will spread. (I haven't reached the point that I want it to stop, btw. ^^ I love finally having ppl to talk about The Dark is Rising series with!)
2) You will find that people's takes on the subjects are a LOT different from yours. (I had never, EVER thought of Will and Bran being gay before...very different train of thought from mine.)
3) People will give you plugs in their journals if they like your topic. This increases memebership. Hence, I'm happy because that means more discussion.
I also learned things about other people's community.
1)Always read the fine print! Or, in this particular case, the back print! (Aka earlier posts). Get a better feel for the community before you jump in with both feet. (Luckily, it won't matter so much this time...but a shock is a shock).
2) People perceive things WAY differently from you. Waaaaaayyyy differently.
3) Roleplaying comes in lots of forms
4) I must become a lot better versed in the ways of the English. (Shoort, and the Welsh too. :P)
I really like how thedarkisrising is going, though. I'll have to go and check how many people are members now, but it increases daily. I have to find my questions that I'd written to Susan Cooper yeeeeeaaaarrrrs ago. *Shrugs* But anyways, enough about my community. XD
Life is fine. It's been really quiet online today. Even now...it's 9:15 and no one's trying to talk to me. It's almost odd. Everyone on my buddy list is away, and this is mainly because the two people on my list are both "away". So I can sit back, quietly, and write in my LJ. Nice. Very nice. A quiet moment at home. *Smiles*
*Yawns and stretches* I should do some writing. Need to work on my other community, too. I'm really trying to get back into writing. This research paper really frustrated me, when I spent 4 hours on 5 pages because I couldn't get it exactly right. Mind you, non-fictional has always been harder for me. I'd much rather do subjective writing to objective. And I'd rather do fictional than anything else.
I think part of it is that I've really been thinking about what am I good for. Colleges have been mailing me to the point where my organizer is full. Freakin' full. I keep answering that my Major/Career interests are Foreign Language (Spanish), History, Music-Vocal, but lately I've put Creative Writing as well. I don't want to lose my ability to write, which I've put on the back burner since 8th grade. I seem to be under this delusion, too, that I'll have more time in the summer or more time in college. Pfft. I have to come to grips with the reality that if I want to keep the talent, I'm going to have to start using the talent. I read a lot, so it's not like I've lost the knowledge of how it should go. It's that I haven't taken the time to sit down and type. Type for myself and not just re-mastering something I've recently read and basically regurgitating it in a different way.
Anyways, enough insight from me. Maybe this will be good for me, being an LJ Community owner, is all I'm saying.
I may post a bit more later. But for now, so long...
Rae-Rae @-}--
PS. Got a new icon. Doesn't fit my present calm and peaceful moood (I think it will be my angry icon instead of the Ring of Power now...my evil icon). Tell me what you think. ^^ (I love you guys at animeicons. ^^)