Whinging - feel free to ignore

[lady_karelia]

Admining a fic today had me really upset. Like, seriously upset. The author's response, which was ignorant at best, and certainly defiant, made it worse. I don't know, maybe I'm just burnt out. I want to write, and as much as I love mentoring authors to the point of validation, sometimes, I just feel overwhelmed. Like today. So, yeah, I'm hopelessly behind with betas right now. I had, until tonight, not written a word in about four days. We're extremely short in the admin department this week, and for some reason, there were loads of really long chapters in the queue.

Thankfully, tonight Lucius suggested a hot bath, which was a brilliant idea, since I went to Lush yesterday. And wow, did that bath help the Muse. About 350 words written for the LMHG exchange. Not a lot, but it's a start, and what's more, I have the entire outline. So, yeah, I'm feeling better now. But I still wish people would apply brains before uploading fic. Anyways, Lucius, with the help of Mozart and Sibelius, fixed my mood.

Comments

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. It's one of the hardest lessons to learn in writing - how to take criticism. I'm sorry you've come up against someone who has no idea.

Enjoy the bath. Enjoy the music.

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

I've noticed over the years that there are clearly two camps: those authors who wish to improve and those who don't. I think it's me more than anything else in that whole thing because I cannot fathom how one does something, and does it regularly, and has no interest in improving the skill. *shrugs* Well, it's gone now.

The Lush!bath was wonderful and very bubbly and the music awesome, so I'm back to happy. :)