#really nice stuff

 Winter: My Secret 

BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 

I tell my secret? No indeed, not I;

 Perhaps some day, who knows? 

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Or, after all, perhaps there’s none: 

Hey now, if you’re taking time out of your life to express how much you enjoyed anything I write, that’s never something I’d get bothered about! It’s very much the other way around. 

Nowadays, I don’t have much to pride myself on outside of my ability to write. So it really does mean the world to me when I get comments/reviews/messages for any of my stories; especially when effort is put in so I’ll know exactly what I did right and how it affected the reader. 

Even though I’m very much an author with the philosophy of only writing for myself with no regard to what the public would want, I consider it a gift to be told that any work of mine meant so much to someone other than myself. It goes a long way in sustaining my (perpetually low) self-esteem, so I’d never ever ever be bothered by anyone who goes out of their way to tell me what they experienced while reading anything I write.

Really, the only bad thing is that I haven’t updated Trifecta in forever so I end up feeling like a dick leaving readers hanging. I can say with certainty that it isn’t dead. Trifecta is not dead until I say it is. It’s all about my mindset and how to get into the right form of it when the planets align, because the freaky phenomenon that struck me at the start of this year proves I’m capable of writing an insane amount of material in relatively short periods of time. 

I’m still trying to figure that out, honestly. In 20+ years of writing, this has never happened to me before until this year. 

… on top of that, you picked a good time to do this! I’m in a really craptastic mood this weekend (coincidentally due to other stories of mine), so I really needed something like this to help pick me up. So rest assured I’m very grateful for what you’ve done for me!