#sacredpools

Even putting that aside, five years? Really? I’ve seen quite a few fics get updated after three or six years. The longshot I’m still lowkey hoping for is this one hp fic that will have gone 11 years with no update this August (the author said this was the exciting part they’d been waiting to write all along! We /still/ don’t know what kind of magical creature harry was turning into and why the elves were wary of him!) And if something isn’t working for you anymore it’s perfectly fine to move—

—on and write something else. Frankly the alternative seems like it would be never posting wips and only posting already completed works, which might work for some people but feels like a huge amount of pressure to me. And tbh I think I speak for more than myself when I say that I’d much rather get to read incomplete stories than never see them at all. Some of the best stories I’ve read are incomplete, and if the authors hadn’t posted them anyway I never would’ve gotten to read them. So that— 

—much from a reader-centric perspective. As someone who’s never posted written work online I don’t feel exactly qualified to speak from a writer’s point of view, but I guess I’ve also heard people say it’s valuable to post stories as you write them - for advice, for inspiration, for cheerleading, for engagement w/ the community, whatever. Not that I think you’re going to stop posting wips or even that I’d be trying to talk you out of it, but I guess this is something that I’ve thought about b4 

Honestly, yeah, the only time I publish already finished works is when it’s a relatively short fic, up to 10k words. I can’t really manage to keep up the steam on a fic without feedback from an audience, but the flipside is that sometimes... I just lose interest. Either canon has jossed the premise of my fic, or I’ve moved on to another fandom, or I just get interested in a different idea, but mostly I just drop stuff because I get bored and I’m moody and I have too many ideas to work on all of them at the same time.

And I don’t even mind comments on old fics or on fics that have been on hiatus for long. But sometimes when I get a comment like this, I reread the old fic (that I have often completely forgotten) and I reach the point where I stopped writing, and I’m a bit bummed out myself that I never continued, because I’m curious about what would have happened next, and I know I left a lot of people feeling the same.

We’re absolutely still querying! It is a slow process though (any literary agents want to jump in here and save us all the emailing? Please? It is very stressful!)

The Tragic Tale of Matt’s Exes is a bonus story we wrote in response to a prompt from the kind and brilliant @vardasvapors first published on @fakemattrose (our Official Novel Blog) here. 

ok i went and looked it up online and looks like i was misremembering slightly but:

(2/2) You have to agree to the tos to actually do anything including import stuff. Anyway I just wanted to let you know in case you weren't aware, sorry if you've already heard about this and I'm just bothering you

Hi!  Yes, I’m aware, though I haven’t said anything publicly about it anywhere.  I’ve been on Dreamwidth since it started in 2009 and everything’s been crossposted from DW since then (and was imported when I originally went over to DW), though I haven’t been importing comments on the regular.

At this point I’ve only been talking to one or two people on LJ still (I went back to journal blogging last year when I was having my Relationship Crisis and needed to sort through my feelings under an access lock where I controlled who saw it, but that was all originally posted on DW), and all my significant content is on DW.  I’m not deleting my LJ, I’m just, uh, going to let it wither away, I guess?  I don’t have the energy to make significant decisions other than “turn off the crosspost button” right now.

Lmao lmao YES I just finished them this morning.

I enjoyed reading! But they were a confirmation of something I already knew about Homestuck, which is that it stopped being “for me” as a reader some ways through Act 6. I don’t mean that in the general sense of, like, this story is nice it’s just not to my particular taste for some mysterious reason, I mean more that the target audience royally shifted and did not take me with it. 

I am not personally invested in:

misogyny examined exclusively through the POV of misogynists in the form of flip-flopping between indulgence, guilt, and a charming lack of self-awareness

metatextual buffoonery that won’t crack a grin but instead commits fully to the strawmen it creates—this is a very compressed sentiment, but I’ve set a daily hour limit for my tumblr usage and I do want to be able to browse fanart later, so I’m cutting even more corners than usual. Basically, in a similar vein as Princess Tutu, being asked to examine problems of narrative bias as solely represented by clowning fictional narrators feels oddly like being assigned mandatory training wheels. I’m not saying it can’t serve a purpose, but it really feels like a dull parody of what was, for me, a lot of the pleasure of the earlier comic’s more genuine, unstructured, unstable play with perspective and storytelling.

1) is there a story you’re holding off on writing for some reason?

DONE

18) were there any works you read that affected you so much that it influenced your writing style? what were they?

I appreciate @sacredpools establishing their not Matt (and hopefully not Not Matt either) credentials early, and I hope everyone in my inbox will keep this up as Star*Boys becomes more of a thing. I do not need Matthew Rose shitting up my inbox, that boy needs to get a hobby.