The Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name · 4:35pm Aug 1st, 2016
I need a place to breath and this seemed like an alright spot to do it.
The reason I haven't been around? Writing.
What have I been writing? Original fic, my good man! Nay a pony in sight.
I don't actually miss this place. Not in the usual way. I miss it in another way. A year ago, a year before that, I was a complete amateur. I wrote shit. I posted shit. But without all that early stuff I wrote, I wouldn't be where I am. I've been logging on and off for a while. Trying to post something. Trying to talk to peeps I used to be cool with. I find it kinda hard. I'm not in the same place as I was then.
And hell, I'm not sure what to do now.
I used to have people I looked up to. I used to have fellow authors whose stories I read and, well, let's be honest, worshiped. In that big eyed little kid way, "I wanna write like that, mister!" And now I don't. I no longer have any goalposts. No favorite and/or big-named authors who I hoped will one day come across my fic and dole out a comment or a fav. I don't actually want those comments. I want them in a forever wanting way. You know, motivation and all that jazz. But all the off-fimfiction writers I check out, we all write in different genres. No crossover what so ever. I wouldn't even know how to break the ice.
"Hey, you write. I write. Can we, like, hang?"
On here, it takes me months to pump out a measly 2,000 word chapter.
On the wilds of the internet, I can do 10,000 word one-shots in about three days.
But for all that word count boasting, it doesn't make up for what I'm missing. And I dunno what that is. I have been trying to write pony but it just isn't coming out right. And when I write in the old style, like I did on here, it doesn't do as well.
(And I did try that translator program that replaces hands with forehooves/ feet with hooves/ mane with hair and it really didn't work.)
I'm going through writer growth pains. From shorts to novels I go. I miss a lot of things but I'm going to have to let them pass away. (Unless of course, generalfiction finally shows up. I'd put down fresh fics in a jiffy). I just needed to take a break.
Hmmmmmmm, if you PM me, I might give you a link to my new hangouts. If you like tentacles, you might like my smut.
Tentacles? Links pl0x.