somniloquence

I'm so sorry to hear about the back pain. I know from personal experience how much chronic pain just yanks away your attention and sucks your joy from anything. Any idea what the problem is?

I feel like a lot of times I'm the only writer who instead of building an audience in a fandom by posting lots of fic, has actually done the inverse and fewer and fewer people want to read anything.

Definitely not just you. Granted, I tend not to go for the megafandoms, nor has it been my pattern to settle dedicatedly into one fandom and try to build an audience through the types of long, multi-chaptered series that draw in bigger crowds than my favored short one-offs. I also used to be a lot more social and engaged in the hubs of primary fannish activity, mailing lists and chat rooms and the like, but fandom has moved on and I don't have the spoons to keep up that level of sociability, even if I could manage to cognitively parse the new spaces where fandom hangs out. Anyway, I commiserate. I wish I could make all of fandom read your stuff, because it's so good and they would love it.

I didn't realize you were freelance, for some reason I thought you worked for the big A. What's that like? It's something I'm looking at going into after I get the degree, which is still about a year out at this point. I'm also looking forward to reading books again when that happens. I've managed bouts of fic while in school, but books require different parts of my brain that classes are apparently already eating. That's been an issue with fannish engagement and writing, too. Which books did you manage to read? Have you got a preferred genre?