User blog comment:Mystreve/Writer's Lounge Part 1: An Interview with Slimebeast/@comment-5825217-20140804152420

Hmm, this was a good idea. Makes writers seem more like people than text on a screen ⌐_⌐

"Don't start out looking to wow people." Like Invective said, there are a lot of people who try writing, are not immediately adored and cast into the limelight, and quit because they think they're no good.

I see stories on here that nobody has apparently paid attention to, and they're brilliant. I'm not just talking horror here - they're good writers as well.

I might have spent my formative years trying to figure out as many ways as possible to allow a rabbit to outsmart a wolf (the ravings of a toddler) and the first few years of my writing career (i.e. middle school) writing fanfictions (not about animes or Harry Potter, thank you), but that and my freelance-writing mother were enough to teach me the elements of good writing, and now that I'm older and am working on my own pieces, I recognise those things in the works of others.

A lot of new writers will feel that sense of anonymity and insignificance and become discouraged. Instead of worrying about what other people think, write for yourself. Write what you want to, not what you think other people might want, because the best writing comes from the innermost depths of the mind.

At the same time, a positive review can't hurt. I remember writing three chapters of something when I was 12, putting it up, and then giving up because nobody reviewed it. About a month later, however, someone must have been browsing the archives and found my story, and they reviewed it, spurring me to write 355 more pages spread across 19 more chapters.

All they said was:

"This is pretty good. I would like to read more."