Quotes for MY Writing Life

"I sometimes think that writing is like driving sheep down a road. If there is any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it." ~ C.S. Lewis

Clarity has always been my waterloo. I got three reviews in the last four days that say, "I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'm hooked." (Mixed blessing.) The most common line my editor dumps on my submissions, "Clarify." My favorite thing to do in writing? Write between the lines.

Mixed. Blessings.

"The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that." ~ C.S. Lewis

I don't think I excel at this. I would love to. I would love to help readers get my ideas as much as I'm told I get my characters.

I think I'm going to pin this to my computer!

Someone tell me why we play this game?

FF.net finally gets my Divergent category loaded and characters loaded and it won't keep any characters selected and the story shows up on my profile with Zhang Fei as the character. Pardon moi?

I never dumped FF.net and never wanted to for two reasons:

1. As a reader, I've never found a fanfiction site I prefer for easy tracking, reviewing, etc. It makes my life easy.

2. As a writer, my largest audience is there. I'm known; I know; we have community. It's an awesome thing.

And since I had over thirty stories, many multi-chapter, before I even considered switching, it was too much of a bear. I hate losing reviews, readers, and putting in the HUGE amount of work involved in picking up roots.

And then there's PM.

All these people I used to ask for help for so many things disabled PM and now I don't have a French title for All's Fair. I alternate chapters for Remy and Rogue; her titles are in English, and his are in French. For Without a Trace and his All's Fair titles, I asked abthetis, now ab26. And now, she's got PM disabled and I'm freaking out.

Seriously wondering if I should switch platforms. Or something.

Disconsolately yours.