I know intellectually that there's a market out there for me. It's just that I think people really want the respect of their peers, and the W.com group and I don't seem to be on the same wave length when it comes to stories. There are some, but finding them is really difficult. I think it all stems from being here for fourteen years and still feeling a bit like an outsider in a place that I consider my writing community.

I definitely need to start differentiating myself from my Nerd Cactus persona, I know. I'm there in what I choose to blog about, and in what I choose to Tweet about (but I am *awful* at Twitter and wish my other half would support me there), but I think I need to start individualizing myself a bit, I guess. I do have a lot of character studies and world-building exercises for my various projects, so I could publish some of those on a blog, but I find most of my short stories don't fall into the fantasy realm because I just don't have the word count to write decent short stories in my world.

I don't mind haters that much; I think it's just that I so rarely get the corresponding glowing review that my world feels unbalanced right now. Yours on my antagonist actually got me through a couple of days, lol. I don't know that more than a dozen people on W.com falls squarely into my readership, so the positivity can often be missing from my world.
-Quaddy

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