Aw, hell. This is just like getting one of my favorite new shows cancelled mid-season. Flashbacks to Firefly and The Inside. But if it's making you miserable, then I agree...you shouldn't do it. Focus on comment porn instead! *g*
Were you at least a little bit buoyed by the fact that nina_ds and I, two very new friends with extremely discriminating tastes (*snort*) befriended your NaNo LJ on the strength of our belief in your talent and the fascinating premise of the story? You should be. We aren't cheap and easy, you know. (Well...she isn't. LOL.)
Some, yes :) But I can't help it, silence kinda gets to me. Lord knows I've friended project journals, regretted it, and been too polite to back out... until later *laugh*
I heartily support and cheer on the writing of comment porn, but tag-team writing makes me even crazier than NaNo :D
(This story won't die, by the way, it won't leave me alone. I just have to figure a non-crazymaking way to handle it.)
I was just having these same thoughts. And I was whining to a friend (not you) that no one cared about my vampire!Numb3rs (besides you, of course). She told me that I had to write it first and then "they would come," and of course that's true--if I had a completed fic and tried to pimp it to Numb3rs fans I could at least find a few people who were interested. But without people reading and encouraging me along I stop after 200 words and go do something totally different. Definitely encouragement and writing are linked in a deadly circle.
But Reaper Boy wasn't necessarily an aberration. It just required more specific circumstances than you thought. Someday you'll find those circumstances again. :) *hugs*
Definitely encouragement and writing are linked in a deadly circle.
Too true :/ Man, I hate not getting to chat with you... stupid company. Stupid work! I could totally handle NaNo if it wasn't for this inane "work for a living" thing.
It is awful that we are tragically separated by such petty things as "work" and "life." *nods* Well, we either have to be better emailers, or we'll have to try to make chat-dates so we can at least catch up once every two months or something. :)
It should be fun and I hope without the NaNo pressure you will continue it someday. It's a fucking brilliant idea. Don't let that go, despite the seemingly mediocre response at the moment. (Though, I understand about not getting comments to help generate enthusiasm. Sometimes I wish we could put counters on our entries so we at least know the lurkers are interested.)
Like someone else said before, they will come. Be it by word of mouth through their friends, because they're waiting for the end, or they just need to be strong armed into trying the show/movie, people will know how much better this is than Reaper Boy. *g*
And I'm glad I made you laugh yesterday, I even impressed myself with the funny. I think I might change my journal title. heh.
It should be fun and I hope without the NaNo pressure you will continue it someday. It's a fucking brilliant idea.
Well, it's a cracked idea, that's for certain, whether I can make brilliance out of it remains to be seen... Mrfle. This is so frustrating. I am so frustrating.
Now I feel horrible for not reading it, but I was waiting till I had time to rent the movie, and then I was gonna catch up. I still want to do that.
If the story is still there waiting to come out, then keep writing and screw the NaNo schedule, but if the whole writing thing is just going to make you miserable even without a schedule, then, yeah screw it all.
Whoever up thread said Reaper Boy was not an aberration was right. You have a HUGE amount of talent and I know everything will converge to let it bloom again sometime.
*deep breath* I just can't... write every day, while I'm working. I think that's the big thing, because what ends up happening is I put off everything else -- LJ, email, playing with the kiddo, going to the gym, all of it. Then I feel like I'm depriving myself for nothing, because I'm not getting anywhere fast enough, and that makes me -- get this -- resent the story :/ Is that not the most neurotic messed-up shit you have ever heard? *eyeroll*
So, I've got to figure out another way to do this.
(And man, I didn't mean to make people feel bad, at least not in the front of my head, but I suspect if I can't get at least one designated beta/cheerleader for this it's going to fall apart on me again. And that sucks. Because I should be able to just do it, dammit.)
*ponders threesome... ponders some more... mmmmmmmmmmm* I can say, man Charlie gets around *laugh* But damn. Neurotic mess, me. I'll figure this shit out eventually and maybe then I'll stop whining.
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Were you at least a little bit buoyed by the fact that nina_ds and I, two very new friends with extremely discriminating tastes (*snort*) befriended your NaNo LJ on the strength of our belief in your talent and the fascinating premise of the story? You should be. We aren't cheap and easy, you know. (Well...she isn't. LOL.)
*big comfy hugs*
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I heartily support and cheer on the writing of comment porn, but tag-team writing makes me even crazier than NaNo :D
(This story won't die, by the way, it won't leave me alone. I just have to figure a non-crazymaking way to handle it.)
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But Reaper Boy wasn't necessarily an aberration. It just required more specific circumstances than you thought. Someday you'll find those circumstances again. :) *hugs*
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Too true :/ Man, I hate not getting to chat with you... stupid company. Stupid work! I could totally handle NaNo if it wasn't for this inane "work for a living" thing.
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It should be fun and I hope without the NaNo pressure you will continue it someday. It's a fucking brilliant idea. Don't let that go, despite the seemingly mediocre response at the moment. (Though, I understand about not getting comments to help generate enthusiasm. Sometimes I wish we could put counters on our entries so we at least know the lurkers are interested.)
Like someone else said before, they will come. Be it by word of mouth through their friends, because they're waiting for the end, or they just need to be strong armed into trying the show/movie, people will know how much better this is than Reaper Boy. *g*
And I'm glad I made you laugh yesterday, I even impressed myself with the funny. I think I might change my journal title. heh.
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Well, it's a cracked idea, that's for certain, whether I can make brilliance out of it remains to be seen... Mrfle. This is so frustrating. I am so frustrating.
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Now I feel horrible for not reading it, but I was waiting till I had time to rent the movie, and then I was gonna catch up. I still want to do that.
If the story is still there waiting to come out, then keep writing and screw the NaNo schedule, but if the whole writing thing is just going to make you miserable even without a schedule, then, yeah screw it all.
Whoever up thread said Reaper Boy was not an aberration was right. You have a HUGE amount of talent and I know everything will converge to let it bloom again sometime.
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So, I've got to figure out another way to do this.
(And man, I didn't mean to make people feel bad, at least not in the front of my head, but I suspect if I can't get at least one designated beta/cheerleader for this it's going to fall apart on me again. And that sucks. Because I should be able to just do it, dammit.)
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