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Decisions ...
Car shopping hell is over. We finalized a deal today for the new vehicle, and we will pick it up tomorrow. I'm glad and relieved the ordeal is over, although spending that amount of money is a bit terrifying. When I consider I'll likely have the car for 10-15 years to come, it's not quite as frightening. I've had my Mustang for 13 years now, so I tend to keep my cars for a long time. Still ... ouch. Now, of course, the doubts start to set in. Because it's rainy and gray and I don't actually have shiny-happy new car in my driveway/garage to go look at. I have to wait until tomorrow to get that new car "glow".
In other news, I've decided it's time to pull my fanfic down. It seems like a sudden decision, I know, but this is something I've been pondering for quite a while now. I've been pretty much semi-retired from fanfiction for a couple of years now, and I don't see that changing much in the future. More and more, I find myself wanting to spend time working on my own original fiction. And this is a good thing. Fanfic was a great way for me to find my way and to teach myself how to write again. And it's been fun. But it just feels like it's time for me to move on to something new.
I'll be leaving the fic up for about another month. Sometime in January, I'll start pulling stuff down from fanfiction.net. So, if you read fic over there and happen to like anything in particular, you might want to save it before I start deleting things. =)
In other news, I've decided it's time to pull my fanfic down. It seems like a sudden decision, I know, but this is something I've been pondering for quite a while now. I've been pretty much semi-retired from fanfiction for a couple of years now, and I don't see that changing much in the future. More and more, I find myself wanting to spend time working on my own original fiction. And this is a good thing. Fanfic was a great way for me to find my way and to teach myself how to write again. And it's been fun. But it just feels like it's time for me to move on to something new.
I'll be leaving the fic up for about another month. Sometime in January, I'll start pulling stuff down from fanfiction.net. So, if you read fic over there and happen to like anything in particular, you might want to save it before I start deleting things. =)
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Hmmm. Honestly, I actually hadn't thought about it that way -- from the perspective of someone wanting to find and reread a favorite story. When I started writing fanfiction, that's pretty much all I did. And it was pretty much all I read, too. That was several years ago, though. At least 6 years ... but probably even longer than that, really, as it took a LONG time before I worked up the courage to post anything. Now, I don't read fanfic. I won't say "never", because I read stuff by one of my friends when she sends it to me. And I read your fanfic and genuinelie's fic, when you guys post in LJ. Since I don't read it any more ... well, I guess it just never really occurred to me. I guess I thought it wouldn't matter all that much to anyone, one way or the other.
Although I know it seems like it, this isn't a reaction to that review I got recently. I've gotten negative reviews before, but nothing quite as "strong" as that one, so, it did bother me a lot at first. But that passed pretty quickly. (Well, not that I'm happy about it or anything -- lol -- but it's just one person's opinion.) I've been thinking about taking my fic off of fanfic.net for a long time. I had just kind of left it up there out of apathy, really -- because I just never took the time to take it down or do anything else with it. The nasty-gram review just reminded me that there's stuff up there that makes me cringe each time I think about people reading it. *laughs*
This is good, though. You've given me some good food for thought. *hugs* I'll definitely think about it, and maybe just adjust my profile to reflect I'm no longer writing/posting fic.