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I seem to have worked out my transition issues. I ended up scrapping the whole scene and going a completely different route. I'd like to have it done by Valentine's Day, so finger's crossed.

I've been noticing my own personal growing annoyance with certain prefaces to fan fiction. Authors who feel the need to apologize for their stories. Posting a fic and saying 'I know this sucks, I'm sorry, go easy on me!' is the big one. (No one on my flist does this, I see it in communities.) If you really think your fic sucks that badly, why post it? Or rather, why post it and expect people to go easy on it? If I post something that's not up to my usual standards, I expect people to tell me. If you want good feedback, why not work at the story and revise it until you're happy with it? Hell, forget good feedback, if you want to be happy with your work, why not make the extra effort to make it something you'd be happy with? I don't mind it the first couple of times an author does it, but when it gets to be normal....

Moving on, can anyone tell me why the Aeon Flux VHS set is going for 140$ used? When the Reign the Conqueror DVD set is only 30$ new? That's a 4 DVD set. The Aeon Flux set? 3 VHSs. Are VHSs that rare that they've become worth more expensive than DVDs?

What if You Lived in Randland? by summersdreamer

Name

Gender

Nationality

Amadician

Profession

King/Queen

Destiny

To become the Dragon Reborn

Unusual Quirk

Talking to yourself

Role Model

Moiraine

Chance of Turning to the Dark: 58%

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I swear, so many authors do that it's like a tread. Fic has changed over the years, man. ;)

In my English class, my teacher is always telling us never to hand in a test/essay/quiz and say, "Oh, Mr. Clark, it isn't that good, I probably failed." because when he grades it he'll have that in his mind, knowing that we didn't think we did well on it, and it could reflect in our grade. I think that idea applies in many places, because won't you be more excited to read something by a person who feels strongly about their work? I mean, it could be bad -we all write bad things sometimes- but if they show that they tried hard on their work, I think it earns them more respect.

I totally agree with you, because that really is irritating.

Hehe. Yeah, it really has. ;-)

That's a damn good point, actually. They always say that effort and enthusiasm count for half the finished product. I'd rather read something that's had effort put into it and that an author is proud of than something that they just tossed up. God knows I've written some pure shit, but I don't think it deserves to be treated as anything other than shit.

you really dropped out of existence to me. its probably been atleast a year now, but i figure that you changed somewhat, and that was that. and i really dont worry about it much. glad to see you are still writing your fics, because you always were good at them. well, you know where you can find me.

I know, I'm sorry. I dropped out of existence to pretty much everyone. :/ After the accident, especially. I don't use any messengers anymore. I've pretty much stopped talking to almost everyone. I keep meaning to go on AIM or Y!M, but then I don't. And I miss talking with people I just feel like no one wants to talk to me, even though I know it's not the case. Especially people I haven't talked to in a while. I feel stupid just getting back in touch after so long. I miss talking to you.

well, im around whenever you get up to doing so. unless you wanna hop on IRC or something to talk there. thats not really messenger. but im gonna be gone from about now until sometime tomorrow in late afternoon because i will be doing a bunch of army enlistment stuff. we'll have time to play catchup im sure. till then chelle :)

*hugs* I'll be on this weekend. And I mean it. Email me and smack me if I'm not.

careful what you ask for ;P