I've been looking through some of the fanfics I used to love a long time ago from ff.net (back in '04) and I'm getting kind of... I don't know how to put it... annoyed?

A majority of them have never been finished, or are on hiatus...

That's what annoys me. Some of them were just so damned good... and yet they leave you hanging forever.

I had a H/D fic back then that a lot of people seem to have liked... but I stopped updating for a whole year. Since '03 I've been reading H/D and slash fics by the thousands, but then one day it just caught up with me I guess... I started feeling unoriginal. I was getting bored with my stories... Heck I was even starting to (gasp) dislike fanfictions in general.

So, one day out of the blue, after many reviews like "why, why, why haven't you updated this. i mean, i understand having writer's block, but a whole year? please tell me you are going to continue this, because i really like this. I've never seen a story like this," I finally updated.

I was angry with myself that I gave in and updated, I mean, I just did not like fanfics anymore... In fact, I was even thinking of just taking everything off my ff.net account and deleting it... But for some reason I didn't... something in me just didn't want to.

I reread all my fics, a bit embarrassed at some of them... but deeply engrossed in others. Did I really write this? I thought to myself... wonder of wonders I had. So my plot bunnies started returning, I started writing and reading again... and now I'm in love with fanfics again.

That's what happened to me, and what I think may have happened to other writers... they just never returned like I did...

I've just had an idea. I'm going to post links to various fics that have yet to be finished, and maybe someday for some reason, the authors will finish them.

These great fics still deserve attention, they don't deserve to be put on the back shelf just because they have yet to be updated... Maybe some authors are ashamed of their earlier work, heck I know I am... But I've learned to accept it and just finish the damned story...

Ok, so I'm not only going to provide links to WIP fics... I'll give links to completed ones as well :)

cheers,
Jackie

p.s. I'm still going to write about myself... I just feel like I had to say something about this haha

How do you start a journal? Is there even a right way and a wrong way to start one? I certainly hope not.

Hello, my name's Jackie. I live in NY, but not the city. Considering the circumstances, I'm pleased to see you've somehow found this journal. But I've never been one for introductions, so how about I just dive right in m'kay?

(ha, like you, oh lovely reader, have a choice.)

There's been no school for the last week, so I've been home hanging with friends or just lazing' about. This is my senior school in high school, and at the beginning it was hectic, but now that I'm accepted to college everything seems to be running smoothly...

Ok, maybe not that smoothly... I'm just an optimist at heart...

For starters, I've never been happy with my home life. Now I know there are people out there who have lives farfar worse then mine... I still don't like it all that much. My Dad's a drug addict who's favorite hobby happens to be fishing, with the occasional (as in ever day) mood swings thrown in. My Mom's a whole nother story... Basically she's whipped... Whatever Dad wants, Dad gets.

But you know what? Enough about that. I'm quite content right (now this very minute) and feel no need to dwell on... that stuff.

Someday I hope to be a journalist, perhaps writing a humor column. (Dave Barry is AWESOME) For now I like writing bits here and there, but I've never been able to write a full novel... Recently I wrote a short story for creative writing that my teacher just LOVED, although she never quite got that it was about two gay men. (she was content to insist it was a heterosexual couple it seems). Besides that, I'm a major Harry Potter fan. (yes, I am counting down till the next, and last, book comes out....) (99 days baby!) But, and I blame it all on Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy and not at all on my dirty mind, I'm also a huge slash fan, namely Harry/Draco.

As much as I like writing about myself, I'm supposed to be writing an essay on Othello right now... Might as well get back to that.

cheers,

Jackie