Only write when you can relate...

"Your just jealous because the little voices talk to ME!"

"My greatest ambition is to have my worst enemy kneel before me before I axe their head off...what? Why are you looking at me like that? Insanity is fun!"

The best audience, the most important one of all, is yourself.

I have a lot of sucky fics at the end of this list, and maybe at the top, too. I keep them up, and allow them to be passed around and laughed at because; really, not every fanfiction author woke up good. They didn't.

I am not going to delete them. I am not going to modify the summaries. They just show how naive and immature I was back then. Nobody's perfect. I am gonna show you something proudly probably nobody wants to anymore: imperfection.

I am not. I am not perfect. Have you ever considered that some of the best authors grew up from writing a little story with many misspelled words to writing bestselling novels each year?

Don't modify your fics. Who knows when you might want to see that story you wrote when you were a child? Laugh at it? Mock it yourself? Happy that you've improved?

Nobody has a selection of all fics that are all good. And if they do, guess what? I bet they deleted the crappy ones.

The fact that you can allow other readers to see from the bottom all the way to the top is a very good thing to let them do-- let them see that you, too, had your bad times. It's sort of like being born in the 80's, and in the 2000's, you realized that hairdo really didn't fit, not at all. But then again, you can't throw away the photograph because you had a lot of good times there.

So whether it sucks or not, I am going to keep it up. Do your worst, darlings.

I hate reviews that are one-liners. Yes, I like to hear my fic is cool, or great, or it sucks, whatever. But at least put some effort to review it with more than one sentence.

Dont look at me that way
dont mimick the things i say
i am what i am
and i will always be
rare to find
insanest mind
i'll never let something like
this be set free
so i'll clutch it in my hand
something a love nobody
will ever never understand
its a part of me
and it will always, forever be.

~S.A.