I credit any ounce of talent I have to God and my first beta/online friend. I was 14 and she was 19 and we were on an AOL e-mail list. I wrote this terrible fic and she told me she enjoyed it and we hit it off. We would read for each other and nitpick and debate...
*sigh*
We're still friends but she no longer writes fic and we aren't free youngsters with all the time in the world. I have a shortlist of people I'll PM to read something I've written, but I don't *know* them and they don't really know me and I don't get the depth I'm looking for often times. About 80% of the time I don't even bother and I just throw the story up with nothing more than my own rabid perfectionism having torn through it.
It's also hard because I don't know if what I've written is worth reading. I also have a shortlist of people from which I pine for reviews. I figure if they enjoyed the story it can't totally suck.
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I credit any ounce of talent I have to God and my first beta/online friend. I was 14 and she was 19 and we were on an AOL e-mail list. I wrote this terrible fic and she told me she enjoyed it and we hit it off. We would read for each other and nitpick and debate...
*sigh*
We're still friends but she no longer writes fic and we aren't free youngsters with all the time in the world. I have a shortlist of people I'll PM to read something I've written, but I don't *know* them and they don't really know me and I don't get the depth I'm looking for often times. About 80% of the time I don't even bother and I just throw the story up with nothing more than my own rabid perfectionism having torn through it.
It's also hard because I don't know if what I've written is worth reading. I also have a shortlist of people from which I pine for reviews. I figure if they enjoyed the story it can't totally suck.