the scariest part about being a writer? pouring your heart and soul into this one fic that has taken literal months to piece together only to have this sick feeling in your stomach like it isn’t going to be a hit. not because it isn’t good, no, it’s worthy of a pulitzer, but just because readers won’t interact.
this is my message to my readers and all the readers out there: interact with your writer’s fics. someone can leave a seven word compliment along with a reblog on one of my stories and i’ll think about it for days. writers, good writers, have stopped writing because of the lack of feedback they get. nobody should get the amount of support to the point where they feel it’s worthless to do the thing they’re doing.
I've seen this before, but it's been years and it just came across my Twitter in its dying days. The words are from a favorite author of mine, Maggie Stiefvater, and they are the words I most need to hear when it comes to dealing with chronic pain and illness. I didn't need this the first time I saw it, six years ago. I need it now. Maybe you do, too.
"They won’t fully explain the flag that they carry around—that they all signed in training camp. They have a Stars flag and it’s pinned to the wall just inside the Stars dressing room at AAC, and it is taped to the wall in every dressing room on the road. 81 games now, of it. It says: a little less for a lot more.
What does it mean? They won’t tell, but I think you can probably get some semblance of an idea with the maxim. The underlying message is basically, to me, sacrifice your own needs and wants for the common good and the ultimate goal. And they all signed it. That is who they are. That is their identity."