Building a Community | Writing as a Serious Hobby

It's been a pretty long time since I've uploaded any kind of blog update on this website. It's also not very often that I find myself posting any new fanfiction around here. For a while I was focused on running loves-diary.tumblr.com which took a lot of my time and energy because I was translating NU'EST members' SNS accounts and other news related updates on the group. I have since decided to go on a hiatus (and it may turn out to be a permanent one depending on how I feel) but I've picked writing back up. Honestly, however, I've been writing "friendfiction" in private for me and a group of my friends for several months now, and it's actually provided a lot of satisfaction for me. I enjoy writing for people, I enjoy giving them the gift of a life I would write for them if it were up to me. I like creating a world for us to interact in that closes the distance between us all and lets us live our wildest dreams and be heroes in a world that desperately needs us. 

For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to at least try to publish a book once in my life. There was a time when I wanted to be an author of sorts, and I've come to realize that no matter which career path I choose or where I end up, there will always be the option to write on the side. Writing fanfiction helps me reach people who wouldn't normally read my work, so I think I'll start posting more of my stuff here again since there seems to be some semblance of an active community here. It also allows me to keep content going for NU'EST, and I always want to be able to provide for them. Those boys mean the world to me and have become a muse of mine, particularly my bias. I'd like to show them how they inspire me and I'd like to share my brain-worlds with the fandom. 

The only issue is that it's difficult to get comments that tell me specifically what people like or dislike about my work. I know I typically complain about that here, but this is more or less me thinking aloud now. Perhaps if I try to post more regularly I'll be able to build an audience for my work and can maybe think more seriously about publishing something properly. I also have a close friends who has been encouraging me to write a novel for some time now, and I know she wants to do a collaborative piece with me sometime. I think I'd like that, too. I'm so sentimental, it would become so completely precious to me. 

Anyways, this blog post is kind of a ramble of sorts. I'm interested to see if there are other writers here who take writing a little more seriously and would like to generate some sort of group or community where we can offer each other constructive criticism and serious advice on writing. 

-Lully

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9394DOKAI
#1
It has been some time since I saw a notification of you uploading a new fic here. I miss you Lully (though wondering whether you still remember me). But yea, I'm glad that you're back here!
sooyoung2345
#2
coming together as a group to help each other and give feedback sounds pretty great!