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itstimeforstarwars · 9 months ago

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The struggle about posting stories that I KNOW are going to be zero-note wonders is that I have to finish them before I post them. I have to rely on myself to enjoy them enough to finish them, both because I will not be getting feedback from readers saying 'wow I'm so excited about this!!' but also my brain will interpret a lack of positive attention as people hating it instead of as a reasonable lack of interest due to writing about unpopular characters or writing in a dead fandom. This is one of the fun tricks you learn when you've been writing for over a decade.

#chit chat #conversely if i know that a handful of mutuals are gonna adore a story and I'm having trouble with it I'll go ahead and post the first chap #because the excitement of my friends is often the push i need to get the words flowing #see: galidraan #ofc this only works when the world is not crushing my face to the dirt but there's only so much u can control #obviously i am still going to post my darling zero note oneshots #i used to not post things that i expected wouldn't be popular and five computers later i have lost everything #except what i posted on ffnet #so like. if it gets finished it gets posted at this point #because i had stories that i LOVED and i still remember fondly and i fucking LOST them forever #because it was on an old computer that my parents upgraded #because it was saved on a floppy disk that my grandmother threw out #because it was in the gmail of my school account that got shut down the day i graduated and even tho i shared it to my other account #it was deleted #no #i have learned that i must post #on this account. on my ffnet account. on my cringe omg nobody look at this account.#let it be preserved as long as it can in as many places as possible and then maybe i can see it ten years on

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