In the play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois famously said, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." I have also found this to be true, especially in the case of writing and sharing my work on dA.
Sharing your work with perfect strangers can be a harrowing experience, but I have been very fortunate in the kind encouragement from so many of my readers, and this is particularly true in the case of my beta reader Whisper292 She has helped me in so many ways, tolerated my egregious grammatical mistakes, and soothed my worried nerves. Most importantly, she has helped me grow as writer. And she has become my friend.
As the Courtesan Series winds down to the final three chapters, I just wanted to take the time and tell her and everyone else, thank you.
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Molly Jones Complete
So after six years of writing the Molly Jones series, it's finally done. I'm a bit sad as I feel that it's sort of an end of an era. I don't know what I'll be doing next as far as writing projects go and while I intend to keep my profile up on deviantArt and check in with The Bards College now and then, I don't know when I'll using the platform in the way I used to. I really think something was lost when they changed up the site all those years ago and I'm not sure how active people are actually using deviantArt, at least as far as literature content goes. I've started uploading my old work to Archive of Our Own. My works can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Lesliewifeofbath/works
What Comes Next
So it's been a year and a half since I last turned in a chapter Oh, my poor Molly Jones...
I would really like to finish the next few chapters and then end the series with an epilogue. But I am not sure how that would work. I am not the same person that started the project... and it's been so long since I have written anything. The question that I have been dreading to ask is can I still write? Or worse, do I still want to?
I don't know. I have been bitching for a year about writers block...I've given myself tons of motivational speeches, but nothing really comes of it. I blame really good TV. Or, I would if somehow my eyes were proppe
On Letting Go
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.” ― Cheryl Strayed
Being a Consumer
Welp, right now I am being a consumer rather than a creator. Also, deciding if my works are good enough to turn something else, though I have no idea of where I would begin with that. Not to offend any of her fans, but I'm not trying to follow E.L. James, or at least not her writing style--it's garbage (but exceedingly profitable). Jesus, the thought of that is painful. But I would like to do something profitable, that goes beyond the sheer joy of creating.
Could I turn my works into something that goes beyond the fan-based?
It's something I am seriously pondering.
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God bless beta-Readers! 
When I started writing my story I couldn't find anyone willing to help me, perhaps my English was so bad that it would have required too much time
In the end I found a girl who made me wait entire weeks for a chapter to return it to me almost unedited. For a while I had thought my English was so good I didn't need a beta, I was like hey 
... actually my English was awful and my beta had no time to edit, in the end I figured it out 
Now I have not one but 3 guardian angels- you are one of them
- all very dedicated and trustworthy, I'm feeling lucky and even a bit pampered 
thank you
When I started writing my story I couldn't find anyone willing to help me, perhaps my English was so bad that it would have required too much time
In the end I found a girl who made me wait entire weeks for a chapter to return it to me almost unedited. For a while I had thought my English was so good I didn't need a beta, I was like hey ... actually my English was awful and my beta had no time to edit, in the end I figured it out Now I have not one but 3 guardian angels- you are one of them
- all very dedicated and trustworthy, I'm feeling lucky and even a bit pampered thank you