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Today I got a set of “cease and desist” anonymous messages in the inboxes of both my personal journal and my writing one:

Anonymous asked:

Your DC/WoW crossover idea is just… horrible. They’re not even remotely compatable, and the DC universe is riddled with “everyone is related to everyone else” and “this person has died a million times” drama, that again, doesn’t mesh with the WoW universe at all. Just, stop. Or make it private. These ideas are horrible and you’re embarrassing yourself.

And…

Anonymous asked:

No, no no no. Stop. The DC universe/WoW crossover is just a horrible idea. I’ve read it, and it just doesn’t mesh at all, unless you’re ignoring all of the character’s personalities and backstories and replacing them with your own childish fantasy. It’s really very bad. Please cease and desist, you’re embarrassing yourself. Really. Make it private and go away.

To that person, I say simply this.

If you don’t like what I’m writing, then simply don’t read it.  Either skip over them, remove my journals from your watch list so they don’t show up on your dashboard, or you can block my journals specifically so none of my posts show up on your tag watch list.

Ultimately, I’m writing for my own pleasure. 

I write fanfiction because I want to create new stories in my favorite fandoms.  If I crossover two completely unrelated fandoms, it’s because I’m curious to see what happens when they are meshed together.  When I share my stories, it’s because I want to make my stories available to those readers who might actually enjoy them.  I do this knowing full well that there will also be people who won’t.  However, I’ve been doing this long enough to realize that if anyone doesn’t want to read something I write, they have the freedom to move along to the next writer/story and see if they prefer that one instead.

So to my anonymous critic, I will end with this:

You are entitled to your own opinions.  However, you are in no position to order me to “cease and desist” writing ANYTHING because you don’t like my “childish fantasies”.

Here’s what we will both do.  I will continue writing whatever I want, whenever I want.  You will then continue to read whatever you want, whenever you want as well.  If, by some twist of fate, you read something I write that you don’t like again, you can write me another cease-and-desist message, if that’s what you want to do.  I can then promise you that I will glance over it briefly, roll my eyes, and send it straight into the trash with the rest of the junk mail.

That is all.

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I have so many things that I’m working on right now, and all of them are long and involved.

And I can’t decide what to focus on to finish. To the point that I barely got anything done yesterday, since I was skimming through like five different fics. I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO WRITE, BECAUSE I WANT TO WRITE EVERYTHING.

Help why can’t I make decisions :c

I have this exact same problem right now.  *hugs* You’re not alone!!!

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If you’re a writer who needs someone to beta your rough/first/second drafts, but you don’t want to rely on friends or family to read your unpolished works, then this is a writing group for you.

Scribophile is an online writing community where you can post up your rough works for constructive critiques and comments in return for leaving your own critiques and comments on the works of others.

When you first join, you cannot post a piece of your own until you review several pieces written by others and gain “karma points”.  Once you’ve acquired enough points, you spend them to post your work for review.

Your are pretty much guaranteed at least three detailed (long) reviews.  Scribophile has a policy where if a piece has not gotten any reviews after a set amount of time, it gets put in a “spotlight” review section.  The story then remains in the spotlight section until it receives at least three long/detailed reviews.  Readers are also encouraged to review these “spotlight” pieces because doing so gains them more karma points.

There is a free version as well as a premium version of Scribophile.  While there are definite benefits to being a premium member, the free version works just fine if you’re a budding writer needing constructive criticism to polish the stories you’re working on.

If this kind of community appeals to you, then by all means go and sign up.  Once there, if you’d like to follow my own works, you can find me under the handle of C.R. Scott.

I’ve been working on a new version of my writing blog at WordPress.com.  Fear not, I’m not abandoning Tumblr.  I just wanted a separate, but similar writing blog that allowed me more organizational control over what I posted.

You can find it here:

By C.R. Scott

I’ve actually been enjoying figuring out how WordPress works, especially with themes. 

I’m actually extremely tempted to create a separate community blog on WordPress just for the sole purpose of being a DCU fanfiction webzine.  Invite other writers to share their completed works?  Post up stories that span multiple chapters over a number of days/weeks?  Conduct discussions about ships, canon vs fanon, alternate universes, crossover, etc…

It’s an idea that is starting to take root.  We’ll see how far it goes…