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[salinea]

Do people writing this kind of advices about how to deal innocuously with a fic gift that you don't really liked realize that fic writers are going to over-analyse and agonize over innocuous received feedback wondering if everything not specifically and directly praised was a criticism in hiding or is that only me?

meh, I'm feeling remarkably melancholy tonight, I don't know why. I might be starting to do a fanfic reading overdose @_@

Some days I really hate living on a different timezone than most of the people I know from fandom. Especially days when I would really like to hit off someone on im and just chat about something.
At some point, when I was a student and barely going to classes anyway, i was mostly living in the American timezone. I was going to bed at 6am and getting up at 2pm, playing rpg online or reading fanfics all night. It was dizzy and feverish and not exactly happy days... but... I do miss the part where I could talk online instantly with people. I love spontaneity in dialogue, which is something I find missing in livejournal in general. People have such a different "voice" in IM/IRC and when you talk to them in differed time. *yawns* When's the next snupin chat?

Much love to all of you, which is something I should be saying more often. You rock.

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[etrangere.livejournal.com]

there's nothing worse than silence, I agree! So very chilling and anxious, silence is... and. Well. Writing can be such a weird thing. Sometimes I crave for criticism more than I crave for praise because at least it feels like it doesn't lie and there's a ground under my foot, prospect of improvement.

I like boards in general a lot, it's just that sometimes I want something else. Maybe it's because I almost never use a telephone for the purpose of chatting with people (I loathe phones and phones conversation, I use it for practical purpose only) so IM tends to replace that for me when I'm feeling a bit lonely (which does happen even to little anti-social me :))
The cringing happens in RL, in IM, and in boards. Maybe more in board because then I can go back to it, and then wonder why people haven't answered a random comment and cringe back at how stupid I sounded XD

*snuggles again* I think it's just tonight. I'm feeling remarkably good this autumn, with the warm weather we had and the fic fests to distract me from my Holidays Hatred, I feel much much better than I was this winter.
I hope you get to feel better too soon.

[steph-annie2000.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. The criticism stings. It makes me angry and sad, but in the end it feels better to come back to the criticism then the empty platitudes. Because when I come back to the story with a fresh eye I see what the critics are saying and the empty compliments feel like lies.

AND

Oh, it's good to hear someone with as equal a hatred of the telephone as I. There are only a few who even bother to call me on it and expect me to answer. I talked to someone I have known for over two years online but never met in person on the telephone for the first time last week and she was all worried she'd offended me because I didn't have anything to say.

I'd much rather Im, and even then I'd much rather e-mail.

*snuggles again* I'm not sure what the deal is with my melancholy, but I'm thinking it comes from too much thinking.