Weekly Check-in Post

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Hello, Pros people! This is your weekly check-in post. So come on, all you hard working writers out there, and chime in to let everybody know how your doing. Do you need help in any way? Do you already have an idea or need somebody to bounce an idea off of? Gently, of course. Those ideas can have sharp edges. I'm here to hash it over with you or to hold your hand if you like.

Or maybe you're finished, you spiffy little devil! Allow me to be suitably impressed.

And to help, here's our main influence, or as I like to think, something pretty to look at while you write you write your fabulous tome!

Comments

Re: Any help?

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

If you're still horribly worried, and have not already done so, why not post a few Pros short stories or drabbles online and see how they are received?

If I had anything to post, I'd post it. :) But I spent six months of last year working on the BB - then never got to finish it because I spent months in health flare up.

I did post a few Pros drawings earlier this year but got virtually no response - from which I deduce no one thought they were very good, or else no one was all that bothered either way. Which is fair enough. I enjoy drawing more than writing but I'm not very good at it. And at least a drawing (my drawings, anyway) is only a couple of hours' wasted, rather than days and weeks on writing and editing a fic.

You make it sound like short stories just appear - "post a few". As I've discussed with you previously - while ideas are easy, bringing them to fruition is (for me) bloody hard work.

Re: Any help?

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

*hugs you for not having been well*

I don't know where you posted your drawings, but AO3 seems to have a lot of Pros passing trade, so if you wanted a little more exposure for your work, that might be a good place to put them.

Re: Any help?

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

I don't have an AO3 account. I posted them to my LJ, which is watched by the newsletter.

ETA: Sorry - too abrupt.

Thanks for the hugs - but I have chronic health problems and spend more time "not well" than functional (I'm never truly well). So I get a bit thrown by how to respond to people's reactions to it.

Also AO3 terrifies me because of the kudos thing. 500 hits and only one comment was bad (worse in that the comment was 2 pages of what was wrong with the fic); 500 hits and no kudos would destroy me. Especially as I know one person who hits kudos for every fic she manages to read to the end and another who hits kudos before reading as a, "Thank you for creating!" (neither of them in Pros fandom).

Re: Any help?

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

I have chronic health problems and spend more time "not well" than functional

How wretched for you. *hugs you some more*

Re: Any help?

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

*hugs back* Please don't feel sorry for me. I can't - both in the sense that it isn't good for me and also when I compare my lot to others - feel sorry for myself. I won't pretend it's fun, but it isn't wretched unless I let it be. I'm very, very lucky - I live in a country with free healthcare and good benefits (in spite of all the DWP are doing to them) and I have an excellent family, a brilliant carer and access to the internet and fandom. Ten years in and six years since I was last able to work, it's... endurable. And if I can write or draw on my good days, maybe I can even make it worthwhile. :)

Re: Any help?

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Good on you for being so positive!