Post by Luc on Jan 30, 2018 22:12:47 GMT -5
Wow... It's been 8 years. 8. Freaking years. I'm almost 22 years old. It is quite crazy....
Hell yeah I lied about how old I was. You kidding me? I was 12-13 years old when I started this. Not 18. Then again, who was?
So what am I doing here, when clearly there is no one around? When, clearly, this site was abandoned and forgotten?
This place... has a lot of memories for me. Not only did this site become extremely important to my beginning development as a fiction writer, but it became the catalyst that helped inspire me to become the type of creatively-oriented person that I am today. I'm working on a novel, I play Dungeons and Dragons (and run it, too), and even to this day I love writing and designing new original characters.
I owe a lot to this site. To Leafstar, to Strawberryfur... People that I will never see or hear from again. It's a shame, I would love to see what kind of people they have become. I'm sure they are living happy lives far away from this kind of activity. They may remember, too, but perhaps they sought other paths, or perhaps this place awakens cringe-inducing emotions that are better kept far away. I know, re-reading some of my older posts, I certainly have.
Have I become a better writer? I cannot say, for I don't write with other people like I did here. I think I have a better concept of how a character is created. How a character becomes likable or unlikable.
Sometimes, I wish checking the forums early in the morning to see if someone replied to a new RP thread. Sometimes, I miss talking with my friends about things outside of the site, and about how to improve it. To show how much I appreciate what this site did for me, I recently went and deleted all 4 pages of spam messages (nearly 80 scam posts!) to clean the place up.
It's silly of me to miss these things. Hell, it was 8 years ago. I should get over it, right?
I've made progress, but I will always be grateful for those who helped me catalyze the beginning of everything...
From the bottom of my heart, thank you all.
-Luc
Hell yeah I lied about how old I was. You kidding me? I was 12-13 years old when I started this. Not 18. Then again, who was?
So what am I doing here, when clearly there is no one around? When, clearly, this site was abandoned and forgotten?
This place... has a lot of memories for me. Not only did this site become extremely important to my beginning development as a fiction writer, but it became the catalyst that helped inspire me to become the type of creatively-oriented person that I am today. I'm working on a novel, I play Dungeons and Dragons (and run it, too), and even to this day I love writing and designing new original characters.
I owe a lot to this site. To Leafstar, to Strawberryfur... People that I will never see or hear from again. It's a shame, I would love to see what kind of people they have become. I'm sure they are living happy lives far away from this kind of activity. They may remember, too, but perhaps they sought other paths, or perhaps this place awakens cringe-inducing emotions that are better kept far away. I know, re-reading some of my older posts, I certainly have.
Have I become a better writer? I cannot say, for I don't write with other people like I did here. I think I have a better concept of how a character is created. How a character becomes likable or unlikable.
Sometimes, I wish checking the forums early in the morning to see if someone replied to a new RP thread. Sometimes, I miss talking with my friends about things outside of the site, and about how to improve it. To show how much I appreciate what this site did for me, I recently went and deleted all 4 pages of spam messages (nearly 80 scam posts!) to clean the place up.
It's silly of me to miss these things. Hell, it was 8 years ago. I should get over it, right?
I've made progress, but I will always be grateful for those who helped me catalyze the beginning of everything...
From the bottom of my heart, thank you all.
-Luc