Absent

Explaining some things, and my thoughts.

So, I've been on this site active now for about maybe a month or two. I have some things I'd like to point out and would love some discussion on the subject.

What...exactly, is this site? It touts itself as a place for writers to come and discuss each others work. Yet, it seems to me like a face book knock off with a generally teenage marketplace. I say this based entirely on my own personal experiences.

I think I will be slowly but surely removing my works from this site and putting it back onto my own hard drive. I don't understand the publishing process at all. Much less how to actually go from having my work on this site to getting it somewhere that's legitimate. I'm not the best, if I am I have no idea. I also don't like to think in terms of best and worst but I feel lately, this site and what I have on it is some of my worst writing. It's at best, depressing and at worst not who I am at all. I hate being serious, I hate sadness and I despise when someone else is sad. So, what did I write down when given the chance? Depressing, soul crushing whiny s**t derived from my own flaws and desires of thins I'll never have.

I've got spiral after spiral filled with writing I think deserves a place in time. None of those have made it to this site. Once again, I just feel like I'd be wasting my time. I don't know what it is about this site. I'd love someone to point me where I need to go, but I just have started to lose motivation here.

So, thank you to everyone so much for everything. I really appreciate it. I'm actually leaving out a lot of what I wanted to say but...then again...like I said, motivation and all that.

Take care and good luck to you all!

Reviews

[peterelbee]

I think the only way to get noticed on a site like this is to review other writers. They return the favour by reviewing your work and thus a small community of authors form each being the other's mentor so to speak. If you feel this is not happening and all the site is about is a facebook forum that excludes anyone else but the ones in the know then you are probably doing the best thing by pulling out and opting for something a little more professional.

I've only been a member for a few weeks so I'm not making judgements one way or the other just yet. Good luck with you writings in the future, there's no shortage of online mags and zines you can send stuff to.