Wishing all my friends a Happy Christmas, Happy Holidays, or whatever you happen to celebrate. I hope you're all healthy, happy, and able to be with the people who mean the most to you.
I did but didn't like tumblr, am spending time on discord which is hysterical in a way because it is SO like the chat rooms back in the early 00s when I first joined online fandoms.
I was a slow starter, I didn't get connected to the internet until late 2008, and I feel like I've ben playing catch-up ever since. So many things that I'm still learning how to do. I've ben fumbling my way through for years.
It was entirely the fault on one of my penpals that I bit the bullet and got connected. She got me hooked on fanfic... She doesn't even have a computer, she just printed stuff out at work. Now here I am, 13 years later, writing fanfic, and I doubt she's even read anything in years. She's retired now. Funny the way things can turn around.
I hear you. I've been active in fanficcing since the early 80s so I keep following where the fandom goes but now I'm getting a little old and set in my ways.
And you definitely write a lot which is really cool
I've told myself stories about characters I like for as long as I can remember, but everyone I knew thought I was weird, so I figured it wasn't something most people do. I was 46 when I discovered fanfic was a thing, and it changed my life to discover that literally thousands of people all around the world write about their favourite characters. It was freeing to realise I'm not so weird, so I started writing my stories down instead of just thinking them. Then I discovered communities with weekly or monthly prompts, and writing took over my life.
I'm trying to ease back on the writing a bit now though. I want time to read what others have written, and also time to do more crafting. I still plan on writing every day, just not pushing myself so hard.
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Date: 2021-12-25 11:14 am (UTC)Thank you for all your friendship and inspiration over the year :)
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Date: 2021-12-29 04:29 pm (UTC)I still have my lj for a few things
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Date: 2021-12-30 02:53 am (UTC)And you definitely write a lot which is really cool
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Date: 2021-12-30 11:43 am (UTC)I'm trying to ease back on the writing a bit now though. I want time to read what others have written, and also time to do more crafting. I still plan on writing every day, just not pushing myself so hard.