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Writer's Block: Anti-bullying month
Oct. 3rd, 2011 01:28 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
At the risk of becoming an LJ pariah and possibly getting bullied, I'm gonna go ahead and be honest and say the SPN anonmeme is the biggest bully in my life.
I've never gone to the anon meme and searched myself, but I've wanted to, and I'm not sure what would be more upsetting: REading negative things about my fic, or finding out that I'm not on there at all.
And so I don't go. But I know a lot of writers who've had their feelings hurt by it. And I do worry when I post a fic that it will either be trashed or ignored.
I can't think of anything else in my life that comes comparably close to the fear I feel about the anon meme. and I was FAT, SMART and SOCIALLY AWKWARD in elementary and junior high, so I know what it's like to be bullied.
But somehow, this is more insiduous and scary because we're not kids anymore.
At the risk of becoming an LJ pariah and possibly getting bullied, I'm gonna go ahead and be honest and say the SPN anonmeme is the biggest bully in my life.
I've never gone to the anon meme and searched myself, but I've wanted to, and I'm not sure what would be more upsetting: REading negative things about my fic, or finding out that I'm not on there at all.
And so I don't go. But I know a lot of writers who've had their feelings hurt by it. And I do worry when I post a fic that it will either be trashed or ignored.
I can't think of anything else in my life that comes comparably close to the fear I feel about the anon meme. and I was FAT, SMART and SOCIALLY AWKWARD in elementary and junior high, so I know what it's like to be bullied.
But somehow, this is more insiduous and scary because we're not kids anymore.