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http://cherylzwrites.com/2019/08/13/learn-to-submit-the-wrong-way/ This made me laugh so thought I’d share it! Sample: I swear someone on AFF has already written that :p

That article’s got some awesome advice. I’m taking notes! Turns out I haven’t been nearly as douchebaggy as I should be with publishers, and I’ve been writing the wrong stories! Zombie politicians, here I come!

I’m a big numbers person and wouldn’t delete reviews even if they were flames because hey, at least they reviewed! My first flame was on my first Sailor Moon/Dragonball Z crossover that I co-wrote with an old friend in 2002 when I was 14. If I recall correctly, fans of my fic messaged the flamer endlessly until they apologized. Later on, they came back (probably 6 months later) and gave a constructive feedback review that outlined how I could improve, what was wrong, and areas that I needed to work on. I appreciate that this person did come back later and give me constructive feedback. It’s probably one of my most memorable flames and later constructive feedback reviews.

I’m reviving an old topic but I’m enjoying reading how others found fanfiction. When I was in elementary school around 5th grade-ish, one of my teachers introduced us to looking at a picture and making up a story to go with it. I fell in love with doing that. My friend and I around that same time discovered anime so it evolved from looking at a picture and thinking of a story to watching a show and creating a story involving the characters we liked. My BFF and I would write stories together on notebook paper and then eventually found FFN, started reading stories, and writing/publishing our stories on there. It’s been a great creative outline and I will be forever grateful to that one teacher (whom I remember his name) for introducing me, without knowing it, to fanfiction and creative writing.

Well, there goes Australia from my “vacation destinations” list. A “burn it with fire” meme would be appropriate.