Some people seem to think this site is my reason for being. Some people apparently believe that I am famous for doing this site. I am both pleased and surprised at how many people have visited this site since it launched. I am thrilled by how many people have emailed to tell me how much enjoyment they get out of it. I am most certainly not a celebrity. The closest I will ever get to fame is when a movie star guests on a television script I have written and my words come out of his or her mouth. I’m just not the sort of person who is interested in being famous. I would hate to have people following me around in my private life.
If you read the About Us on this site, you will see that fandom is a hobby for me. I’m a professional writer and I have been for many years and I certainly don’t get paid for writing about how much I am entertained by long-haired men in armor or humorous SF TV-inspired porn. Because this site is a hobby, I can post whatever interests me on it and enjoy it when it brings some people pleasure. If some people think it is dorky or don’t like the fact that I expressed one or two negative sentiments amongst hundreds of positive ones, it does not make a huge difference because it is a hobby.
Am I a little disappointed that some people did not understand my expressed stance on writing? Sure, I would prefer to be understood, but I understand why someone who had just spent a month on something like that too-short-for-publication novel writing exercise would be distressed by my words. I am sorry if I cause anyone any discomfort, but I truly wrote what I felt and I still feel the same way. Perhaps I came across a disproportionately large number of people participating in the NaNoWriMo because so many of those in my social circle are professional writers. The whole thing bothered me because so many of these dates of my friends or friends of friends kept using NaNoWriMo as their excuse to be inconsiderate lovers and friends. The thing is that they were making these excuses to people who have real keep-food-on-the-table deadlines to make and acting like theirs were more important. These are people who would never be understanding about someone else’s real deadline and yet they expected the world to stop spinning because of their artificially imposed one.
To recap, I think people should start writing something because they feel the creative heart to do so. I think they should be encouraged to finish writing because it will give either them or others pleasure. If someone is made to feel like writing is a chore and they are pushed to create something that will never be in a form for others to read, they remove all the joy and art and communication from the process.
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