current mood: writing

AO3 is so cool, and peer-to-peer posting spaces in general, because you can find stuff and share stuff that isn't professional-grade but still has its own thing going for it - if everything had to be professional-grade to be seen then we'd all be missing out on a lot, both as readers and writers!

So yes, I spent like three decades dreaming of writing professionally and never even really writing at all, partly because the terror of expectation killed all desire to learn, and do by learning, and learn by doing. To kick off that expectation and just write for the sheer love of the story and characters and readers and prose is the way to make it happen!!

I'm having these revelations now like it's, I don't know, the turn of the millennium or something. Better late than never??

tl; dr writing is currently happening and I'm so happy!