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The Discovery Of Something Wonderful
Anyone else discover an author after reading one of their stories and then feel bereft after you've consumed everything they've written and realize there will be no more?
For me, the joy of having read their work at all outweighs the sorrow but I've found if I let some time pass I return to the stories and read them all over again.
It creates this bond between reader and author as I do so, imaginary perhaps, but a bond nonetheless. I think about the author a little more with each reread: what were they thinking as they wrote this passage, or imagine them giggling or crying as they wrote another. With famous authors (looking at you Ms. Jane Austin) we have historical records, but with fanfiction authors (save for the few that have gone on to commercial success), most of the time we have but tiny glimpses into their world, occasionally replies to comments w/online sites such as AO3 etc. (which I love)
So I would say to them, keep writing, please. Keep your privacy if you wish, for I understand the world today is weird and wild on the web, but please keep writing. For perhaps someday a year, two years, a decade or more from now someone will read your work and that rabbit hole of the world you created will live and the characters come alive in their imagination and another bond that reaches across time and space will have been forged.
*I would like to credit the photographer of the above photo but cannot for the life of me recall how I happened to have it in my doc library. If anyone knows the source, send a comment and I'll credit.
I'm reblogging this as an encouragement to those creators out there, the artists, the writers whose words inspire us to feel the range and depth of emotion and all of the messy wonderfulness that humans possess.
Keep going friends, send your beacons into the void. Voyage into space despite the harsh conditions and leave your works to twinkle like the stars that they are. Space is vast, and the time and effort may seem futile, but your labors of love are never in vain.
To the readers out there, reblog and comment on the works you enjoy, it means more than you may ever know.
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The Discovery Of Something Wonderful
Anyone else discover an author after reading one of their stories and then feel bereft after you've consumed everything they've written and realize there will be no more?
For me, the joy of having read their work at all outweighs the sorrow but I've found if I let some time pass I return to the stories and read them all over again.
It creates this bond between reader and author as I do so, imaginary perhaps, but a bond nonetheless. I think about the author a little more with each reread: what were they thinking as they wrote this passage, or imagine them giggling or crying as they wrote another. With famous authors (looking at you Ms. Jane Austin) we have historical records, but with fanfiction authors (save for the few that have gone onto commercial success), most of the time we have but tiny glimpses into their world, occasionally replies to comments w/online sites such as AO3 etc. (which I love)
So I would say to them, keep writing, please. Keep your privacy for I understand the world today is weird and wild on the web, but please keep writing. For perhaps someday a year, two years, a decade or more from now someone will read your work and that rabbit hole of the world you created will live and the characters come alive in their imagination and another bond that reaches across time and space will have been forged.
*I would like to credit the photographer of the above photo but cannot for the life of me recall how I happened to have it in my doc library. If anyone knows the source, send a comment and I'll credit.