Spoilers, I lost a lot of the money that I had earned, mostly just down trending bad luck, I learned a lot though and set aside my original investment, so nothing much was lost, aside from pride and profit.
I was discussing with a friend today the importance of keeping yourself grounded as a writer and to realize the limitations of your ability, because only by understanding your shortcomings can you overcome that, a lesson I have had to learn often, even when it was a bitter pill to swallow. I bring this up because late at night I will often find myself unable to sleep, and this will lead me to try to read some fanfiction to make me fall asleep or simply to pass the time. I actually find some fanfiction enjoyable, I am a sucker for things that are easy to read and I have written one myself, although it is so far off from anything related to the source I tend not to be bothered by the usual readers of fanfiction. Back to my point: It has always bothered me when a writer will talk about the original author in a fanfic as if they made terrible mistakes and they could correct them. No disclaimer should ever have "I don't own harry potter, but boy if I did I'd make all these changes, like making sure everyone who died live!" and then go on to write a terribly written story. I admit, perhaps I am a bit crazy for expecting anything at all from fanfiction, but if your work is humble in its ability you yourself should be humble, I think.
Yeah, that's not exactly anything important, but it came to my mind and hey, I have a blog that absolutely no one reads, so I might as well just rant about it a little bit instead of mumbling to myself.
- Chris
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