I skimmed this post when you first posted and resolved to comment when I was not half dead with lack of sleep, but now I come back and reread and find I need clarification. I understand the suspending the LJ activity, and needing a break from fandom, but...you're still going to like, write fanfic and host interesting fannish/non-fannish discussions (somewhere) and say random things that're going on in your life (somewhere) and link to cool fannish/non-fannish things and comment on cool fannish/non-fannish discussions...eventually, somewhere, right? I mean, I understand if you're not, but the community of writers and readers--I've only found that community comfortably in fandom, and I could never give that up for all that sometimes I need breaks or sometimes I need to leave the place that hosts us completely. I mean, even if you're not in fandom I would email you and I would hope we could maintain a friendship; I guess I'm worried most of all because I suck at contacting people and LJ is a good way to keep up with people--now it won't be LJ but it'll be somewhere for me, ya know. God this paragraph is long.
I hope you work on your original fiction. I haven't mentioned it to you but I've talked loosely with two other people on my flists about starting something for those interested in original writing. By "something" I'm not sure what I mean, but I have trouble getting peer feedback for my original writing, and that's part of the reason I can finish fanfic whereas I have so much more trouble with original. I think if there was a small, tight group of us who were really serious about writing, we could talk about it in a serious way and exchange work with each other, and then we could also talk about how to publish and where and each do research and pool it all together. (I don't know how serious you are about original writing. I'm not sure I've ever heard you talk about it in depth before. But I think you're a fantabulous writer and I know you like the idea of Projects. Well, I have this thing about getting ideas and then never doing anything, which is better than actually Starting and not Following Through, but still sucks. But anyway I wanted to say it because I am Worried and Rambley and it would be a way to stay in touch and I don't ever want to lose you!) Omg stopping now.
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Date: 2007-08-10 05:54 am (UTC)From:I hope you work on your original fiction. I haven't mentioned it to you but I've talked loosely with two other people on my flists about starting something for those interested in original writing. By "something" I'm not sure what I mean, but I have trouble getting peer feedback for my original writing, and that's part of the reason I can finish fanfic whereas I have so much more trouble with original. I think if there was a small, tight group of us who were really serious about writing, we could talk about it in a serious way and exchange work with each other, and then we could also talk about how to publish and where and each do research and pool it all together. (I don't know how serious you are about original writing. I'm not sure I've ever heard you talk about it in depth before. But I think you're a fantabulous writer and I know you like the idea of Projects. Well, I have this thing about getting ideas and then never doing anything, which is better than actually Starting and not Following Through, but still sucks. But anyway I wanted to say it because I am Worried and Rambley and it would be a way to stay in touch and I don't ever want to lose you!) Omg stopping now.