Achievement Unlocked: Unlocked an Achivement · 9:09pm Jan 3rd, 2015
I honestly didn't think I'd ever write this blog, but here it is: For the first time ever I got a story on EQD! Woohoo!
But while I'm happy to put a tick behind my checklists of things to do before I can die happily, I'm surprised how much I'm feeling meh about this whole deal. It took almost two months of work, producing three revisions (due to two rejections) and requiring the help of four editors in total. I worked on it for so long that I simply lost all energy for it, ending up being more or less unoccupied in my head about it. If it had been rejected again I would've meh'd too.
Sigh.
This was supposed to be a happy moment. Instead, I'm caring as little it is humanely possible.
One thing is for certain: I will never submit to EQD again. It simply isn't worth the effort, frustration, and humiliation for me, as my writing simply isn't fit for the high quality standards of that site without hours of extra work and help from other people. Your opinions will probably differ, but I don't have the same kind feeling for success when a bunch of people took the original work and made something entirely different out of it just so it can fit into some obscure standards of "good writing".
Or maybe it's because of a really shitty day with college stuff that robbed all joy for this occasion from me... 
I'm inclined to say that while some of it may be a sucky day. A lot of it may simply be you built it up to much in your mind that the reality wouldn't be able to match up to it.
Congrats, Selbi! It really was a good story!
I would love to see more from you. Not necessarily in this vein of story, but just more of your writing.
Congratulations, after all of that you really deserve it. To be honest with you, it's in my Read It Later list, but I'll get to it right now.
Hey, just wondering, what version of the story was I working on? Kinda want to know how much had already been put into it before I saw the stage.
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That copy doesn't really exist anymore. There's only the most up-to-date one and the original, untouched one.
2698891 Ah, that's cool. I was just wondering where I fell in the multiple versions of this story.I assume I'm one of the early editors, as I didn't really see anyone else working on it. I didn't see any major differences from where I ended and the final product, though.
2698891 2698891 I joke around a lot with my comments but I believe this actually deserves a very real honest response.
If EQD can't appreciate your work for what it is well that is their problem. There is only ONE person whose opinion of your story matters and that is YOU. If at the end of the day you can look at what you did and say that you poured your heart into your work, you should feel happy.
This is the internet after all and even if Stephen King himself wrote a story and submitted to here or EQD there will be people that would reject it.
As far as my own opinion of your writing goes I do like your work and I really only have but single critique of your work overall
My critique is that you should try to find more passion. Find that inner child deep inside yourself and let your imagination go wild for a bit. What I am trying to say is write for the fun of it. Go for that wild story you have always wanted to do.
If you keep yourself tense like this you'll end up giving yourself a headache or worse.
Oh my...
This is my first time editing an Octavia fic, isn't it?