Bad Moods And Good Moods

[nia_kantorka]

Frist of all the bad mood thing, to get it off my head.

You know guys, instead of having a strop I should be happy, but I can't help it. I have those two fics on AO3 which are both quite successful and one overtook the other yesterday. Nothing's wrong with that, one would mind. Yet, I'm dissappointed.

Here is the story. Over one fic I've agonised and carefully tried to weave the words together. I did something new here and still think it's one of my better works. The other. Not so much. It was crafted in three days and betaed in another two. It was fun to write. It definitely was, and I really like how the parts I wrote turned out. Well, but I didn't sweat over it or freaked out over how it would be received. So, it seems to be not fair that the latter is now 'better' than the other.

I know it can't be helped. And with me trying new things in every fic some are doomed to get less attention than others. Logically, I know that. It hurt my heart nonetheless. Maybe I should just stop looking at my stats...?

xox

And now about some good things:

Yesterday was the first discussion with everyone who could make it to the online_bookclub chat. We talked about Wool (the omnibus edition) and some fics - of course we came back to fics with time. :D
It was so much fun! To speak to celestlyn, gracerene, and lauren3210 in real time was great. I laughed a lot and kept up as good as I could with everyone.

I did write a bit nonsense twice because I was very tired. Just to correct that:
- It's vitamin D which needs sunlight to get activated in our skin and then helps our bones to function and be healthy. The lack of vitamin C causes scorbut and only eating fruits and such prevents scorbut to become apparent (mixed them up and am still cringing in shame).
- I told you about the little boy at my daughter's prenursery school who talked about wearing heels one day. I won't allow my five year daughter wearing heels. I just told her that when people are grown up everyone can wear heels. Heels - no matter how low - are imo no shoes for childrens's feet.

Oh, and I've finished the first scene of this non-Harry Potter fic I'm writing at the moment. Two or three more to go. Yeah!

One more thing. This made me laugh so hard.

Happy Halloween, my friends! ♥

Comments

[capitu]

I think looking at stats might drive people crazy, I really do. *nods*

I imagine it's hard not to. Once in a while I look at my lone starts (I only have two works, one translation I did for eidheann_writes and the thing with Birds) and I wonder if they are going good or what and then I say to myself, never mind, mind!

*hugs*

That made me laugh. XD

[nia_kantorka]

That's the problem. I do love some stats. That's why I'm always happy when I find knew ones about interesting topics. I'm not brilliant at interpreting them - no matter if at work or in private. And I agree. AO3 stats seem to be a lost cause. ;)

*hugs back*

Me too. :D
The funny thing, I've got it sent by different people in different languages and there is one - I think telling - difference. The German version doesn't ask for gender neutral candy like the English does, but for local/regional candies. Regional food is very important here - support your local 'dealer' and protect the enviroment by keeping the goods' ways short. But I do love the idea of gender neutral candy too. So, I don't have a favourite and just ask myself how it's different in other languages. Maybe there's a Spanish one?

[capitu]

I don't think we have a thing in Spanish? Here probably would be a joke about nationalisation or something, definitely, but in a Latin level, probably the gender neutral fits better. :D