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I'm still completely on cloud 9. In other words- I've totally had a good day, even though I've had to work and deal with REALLY dumb people and everything. Whee! I don't think I've been in this good of a mood in a long time... it's amazing what a couple of comments will do, eh?
Which brings me to my next point: I'm really going to try much harder with the commenting fics thing. I've gotten A LOT better in the past few months, but... if I read and like something, I need to comment on it. Period. Now that I've experienced first hand how much it means to the author when somebody gives positive feedback... it's an important thing to do, and I can't continue to slack off in that area. Even if said fic already has 20 bazillion comments.
This whole thing has made me realize a few things, though: One is that I need to stop being so afraid to submit my work into places. I've actually done well with submitting, considering that out of everything I've ever submitted or posted to various places, only one has been rejected. Everything else has been accepted and/or has gotten good reviews from the masses. Only one rejection, especially in the writing business, really isn't bad. That's another thing- I'd never realized quite how badly my ego got bruised when my Hex Files submission got rejected. I still have yet to READ the damn e-mail, actually- I just saw that it wasn't accepted and I shoved the e-mail into a folder so I wouldn't have to look at it. Maybe I was having a little bit of a hissy fit about the whole thing, but it hurt. A lot. I really need to seperate MYSELF from my WORK. I think really, that's my biggest challenge as a writer. Maybe I'll go drag out that e-mail and see what they had to say...
Which brings me to my next point: I'm really going to try much harder with the commenting fics thing. I've gotten A LOT better in the past few months, but... if I read and like something, I need to comment on it. Period. Now that I've experienced first hand how much it means to the author when somebody gives positive feedback... it's an important thing to do, and I can't continue to slack off in that area. Even if said fic already has 20 bazillion comments.
This whole thing has made me realize a few things, though: One is that I need to stop being so afraid to submit my work into places. I've actually done well with submitting, considering that out of everything I've ever submitted or posted to various places, only one has been rejected. Everything else has been accepted and/or has gotten good reviews from the masses. Only one rejection, especially in the writing business, really isn't bad. That's another thing- I'd never realized quite how badly my ego got bruised when my Hex Files submission got rejected. I still have yet to READ the damn e-mail, actually- I just saw that it wasn't accepted and I shoved the e-mail into a folder so I wouldn't have to look at it. Maybe I was having a little bit of a hissy fit about the whole thing, but it hurt. A lot. I really need to seperate MYSELF from my WORK. I think really, that's my biggest challenge as a writer. Maybe I'll go drag out that e-mail and see what they had to say...
