Writing Ruminations

[abelina]

Well, hello everyone.  I feel like a stranger around here these days.  I've tried to keep caught up but it seems by the time I do, days have gone by and I can't think of anything to say.  Not had a lot of time for writing, either, or even going online.  I try and read most of your posts, even if I don't respond to them.

I've been writing again, a

Comments

[lostboy_lj]

I feel you on this, abby. I think almost everyone who writes anything worth reading is their own toughest critic, and that the hardest thing in the world is probably to re-read something we started writing long ago without cringing or feeling weirdly estranged from it

[abelina]

You've pretty much put into words how I feel about this, lostboy. I've started and abandoned many things over the years but somehow I've never been able to let this particular one go. I thought, a few years ago, that it was finally over, that there wasn't anything else I could possibly do with it--and that was true. That incarnation of it has exceeded its life expectancy. This newer one I think might actually turn out to be something worth reading.

Thanks for your support!

[dampersnspoons]

You know where to send that chapter when it's done! :D

Can't wait!

[abelina]

Yes, I know where to send it. I have this super awesome beta friend person who rocks my socks, and I have deprived her of fic for too long! Soon, I'm hoping! But we'll see how the words behave for me.