#quitting

Hi!

I wanted to apologize to you all for abandoning my blog without any warning. I really was feeling down back then (thank you for your cheering up messages!)… Also I kind of lost my interest in zero waste. I mean I’m still trying my best to live low waste and use the tips I were using before and sharing with you, maybe I also found some new ones. There are many better zero waste bloggers, I wanted to share my own story, but at that point I felt like there wasn’t much more for me to share. The lockdown really clipped my wings. 

I’m finally back on Tumblr, but I will be posting on my new personal journal blog, I’m leaving the link below if you want to check it out ;)

Take care 

My new blog: https://darlenesparkle.tumblr.com/

(PS. I completed my “decluttering 1000 things challenge”! It was really a thing! I recommend you trying doing something similar, it’s really worth it!)

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blackstar:

i don’t think people really get how little feedback fanfic authors actually get? like the effort to reaction ratio is so abysmally skewed here that a fic nearly 50,000 words long takes an entire year to amass like. 16 comments. someone reblogged a fic i wrote at 4 am and tagged it with a 5-word compliment and i can’t stop thinking about it, not because it was so nice but because half the time you post a fic you’re going to hear nothing and anything feels like so much

fandom culture is so, so good about giving artists the credit they’re due, but we gotta start doing that for writers too. you’ve got no idea how much people put into their stories and get maybe a handful of reblogs and a dozen-odd kudos. that’s not enough. writing is an endurance sport and y’all need to start giving fic writers a reason to endure it and improve their craft. encourage writers like you encourage artists. reblog fics, leave tags, leave comments, acknowledge that these stories do not just spring into being for your entertainment. 

every single damn writer i know feels like half of their readers see them as a machine. that’s gotta change. 

Consider also: Writers do not even have the opportunity for feedback until we are finished.

Artists have the ability to show off preview sketches, host art streams, and get feedback during almost every step of their creative process, and we do not.  We can’t really share outlines and half-finished sentences, choppy first-drafts, and have anyone get excited about that.  When we say it’s an endurance sport, we really mean it.  

That’s why it becomes that much more important to give us that feedback once we actually finish what we’ve been working on.  

“When we say it’s an endurance sport, we really mean it"

THIS.

And of course we write because we love it. We have ideas–BIG HUGE IDEAS–that we want to get out there, just how we see it in our heads, and be able to go back over and over it again, even if no one else cares. Of course we write because we love it.

But we’re human and crave validation. We create these things because We Just Think They’re Neat and want others to agree that the concept or execution or both is also neat and fan about it with us! 

It doesn’t even necessarily have to be about WHAT WE HAVE ACTUALLY WRITTEN. Tell us how much you love the concept or the plot device, start going off on tangents in your comments or tags or replies, because HECK YEAH WE’RE IN THE SAME BOAT. WE’LL JOIN IN WITH YOU.

Fic is MEANT to generate discussion. So don’t think of comments as just saying ‘thank you’. We’re happy for that of course, but that’s not why we wrote it. We wrote it because it’s a thing we’re really interested in, so if you’re interested in it too? SHARE SIS, WE ARE ALL EARS.

Now that you’ve seen this, try to leave at least a comment (in the tags, on AO3, wherever) on the fic. On how much you enjoyed it, on what specifically you liked, even just something that stuck out to while reading. Just give us something to let us know that our work is being appreciated.

True! A single review means the world to an author.