100 Things Post 1: It Takes Courage To Post Fanfiction

Every time I finish a chapter or a oneshot piece, I sweat.  My stomach aches.  My hands shake.  It doesn't matter if I'm about to post a 5,000 word installment of my latest epic or a 500 word installment of Vader's Cat.  It happens because the story is mine.  It's part of me.  I'm sharing something that is integral to who I am.  I'm putting it out on the internet for anybody to come along and pick it up and potentially hate it.

100 Things I've Learned by Writing Fanfiction-Masterlist

{Take the 100 Things challenge!}
I've committed to take the 100 Things challenge on Livejournal and will be posting my content on Fandombouquet (linking from here to my LJ). The following is my master topic post, which will be updated as posts are made and as new topics get added. I won't be writing them in order but the plan is that when they're finished, I'll have a list of posts that are useful/insightful in some way to people who are starting out in fanfic writing (or even for people who've done it a while and are looking to try something different or improve. You can start anywhere you like on the list, but some of the topics are connected.

100 Things 2 Reviews Don't Mean That Much

There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like your story.  There will always be a loyal reader who followed you through half or three quarters of your epic and then got mad at you and decided to bail--or just bailed and never gave you a reason why.