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aimmyarrowshigh replied to your post “In the back of my mind I’m sort of bracing for The Last Jedi to just…”
if it makes you feel better, i 100% will not get my fic done before tlj and it’ll 100% be nuked to heck
oh no, that doesn’t make me feel better. :( i was feeling okayish because I think I mostly *can* get mine done. Boo, that’s not fair.
Sometimes though if you have something that canon nukes, the fragments kind of rain back down into another cool thing, though. But, cold comfort.
I recently had more than one person go through some of my very old fic and leave spates of comments, which was marvelous, and it made me reread some of that stuff, which was also surprisingly pleasant, but it also made me uncomfortably aware that in at least one of those sagas, I have literally tens of thousands of words that never got published because I just drifted out of that headspace before I could bang them into anything recognizable. And if only I could summon the attention, clearly there are still people who’d love to read them, but god, that can be so hard to come by, that kind of focus and critical ability…
It is cheering-up, though, to realize that people can still find delight in that stuff and still take the time to tell me about it– and multiple people, clearly independently of one another, it’s not like one old story got recced (which is also lovely, but different). So there’s always that consolation. If you get something done enough to publish, someone will find it and love it, someday, and that’s a comfort.
(I don’t know yet how to take comfort in the literal million words of disorganized unpublished shit I sweated blood for that’s cluttering up my hard drive, though. I mean, you learn from every sentence you write, so there’s that; if nothing else, all that drivel is fertilizer.)
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aimmyarrowshigh replied to your post “In the back of my mind I’m sort of bracing for The Last Jedi to just…”
if it makes you feel better, i 100% will not get my fic done before tlj and it’ll 100% be nuked to heck
oh no, that doesn’t make me feel better. :( i was feeling okayish because I think I mostly *can* get mine done. Boo, that’s not fair.
Sometimes though if you have something that canon nukes, the fragments kind of rain back down into another cool thing, though. But, cold comfort.
I recently had more than one person go through some of my very old fic and leave spates of comments, which was marvelous, and it made me reread some of that stuff, which was also surprisingly pleasant, but it also made me uncomfortably aware that in at least one of those sagas, I have literally tens of thousands of words that never got published because I just drifted out of that headspace before I could bang them into anything recognizable. And if only I could summon the attention, clearly there are still people who’d love to read them, but god, that can be so hard to come by, that kind of focus and critical ability…
It is cheering-up, though, to realize that people can still find delight in that stuff and still take the time to tell me about it– and multiple people, clearly independently of one another, it’s not like one old story got recced (which is also lovely, but different). So there’s always that consolation. If you get something done enough to publish, someone will find it and love it, someday, and that’s a comfort.
(I don’t know yet how to take comfort in the literal million words of disorganized unpublished shit I sweated blood for that’s cluttering up my hard drive, though. I mean, you learn from every sentence you write, so there’s that; if nothing else, all that drivel is fertilizer.)
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