Disheartened. Future stories now available for others. · 8:54pm Nov 25th, 2014
After the fiasco that was my last story, I've decided to give up writing. I had just gotten into the mood to write again and I figured I'd get the juices flowing by writing one of the stories I had on the back burner. I was proud of it and it crashed and burned like the Hindenburg. I honestly thought that I'd improved. My sister herself said it read like high schooler wrote it.
I'm 27 by the way, people. I won't blame you if that colours your opinion of IBDF. (Which I will finish. Don't worry about that, at least. But the sequel's out the window.)
So my heart's not in it any more. I'm tired of fitting so many damn Aspie stereotypes without even bloody trying. The shitty fanfic writer stereotype is not one I need added to me. Or, at this point, reinforced by writing more.
That said, all my ideas are now open to the public.
Man, I just... I mourn the stories that I could have written if I had the talent. I hope someone truly talented picks them up. In addition to the stories story posted below I'm going to regularly blog with all of my would be story ideas. Fics I want to read but don't exist. Or fics I want others to read, but don't exist.
EDIT. Thanks to the support of a few other users and my own sister who correctly told me I was acting like an emo little bitch, I've changed my mind. The story belongs to me.
And I guess I'll still write that sequel.
However, I really don't need that one stereotype reinforced. So I'm gonna try like, 100x harder on my next story.
...Sometimes I wish dudes had periods so I could blame these mood swings on something.
Disregard stereotypes.
Don't give a fuck about what others think of you.
Write what pleases you.
That's my advice. Twilight Passanger failed to harness attention probably because of the dark tag. I personally liked it. Y'see, dark is an unappreciated genre... but there's a place for you amongst other dark writers, no doubt about it.
But, if you're really not into it anymore, then let it go. As a friend puts it: "this is fanfiction; if you're not having fun doing it, then you're doing it wrong".
I don't see any statistical failures among your published fics. They all have positive upvote ratios, generous ones at that.
Modest total views/favs though, I notice. If failing to garner attention is your beef, well don't worry about it. Many really good stories slip by simply because of how fimfic works. Low popularity doesn't necessarily mean you're a bad writer, more likely that you just have bad luck.
2616542 Twilight Passenger has 13/7. Positive, sure. Generous? I don't think so. Thanks for the kind words, though. And I don't really seek popularity, honestly. I just want my stories to be as good as they can be. I want the feedback I do get to reflect that. If I get only two views, but their seasoned readers and they freaking love it? I did my job.
2616362 You're friend has the best advice I've ever heard on this site. And you know what? Buck the haters. I'll take the constructive criticism I got and make my next story better. And if the dark tag is truly what might have driven down likability then my next story is sure to better by default.
Being Equine belongs to me again.
You can't tell what others will like, so fuck them. Write what you think would be a good story, and chances are someone will agree with you. Hell, Chaotic Harmony was just me writing a bunch of crap that I thought was funny or awesome, and people loved it (Morgan Freeman knows why. My grammar is horrible).
2616717 I'm not the kind of guy who honeys words. I stated facts, take them however you like. 14-7 is not bad by any measure. You always get some downvotes.
I'm glad you decided to press forward though. Just up and quitting something like writing is not... really... wise. It's along the lines of ragequitting the fandom, quitting drinking, or chopping your manhood off.
Er... something like that. Hope you get the point. Happy writing!
2616717 I am honestly very happy to have encouraged you to try your hardest, regardless of your peers' opinions! It may be disheartening to not get any views, but remember: this is a place for learning--something a lot of writers have forgotten, apparently.