I'm always desperate for an audience! But I'm also afraid of jinxing things. With stories, if I'm going to send them out and try to get them published, I mainly *don't* share them. Sometimes I send them to a few people--and when I do, I get helpful feedback (so maybe I should do it more often...)
I satisfy the urge for public storytelling by putting up tiny, unrelated things on LJ. That's **very** gratifying.
I did NaNo one year, and was lucky enough to have three or four people who read the resulting novel and offered feedback and constructive criticism. I need to revise the end of that novel and haven't gotten around to it. I wrote another novel that I only showed a couple of people; that one is out looking for an agent right now.
I love it when my LJ friends post snippets of stuff. Sometimes I miss things (if I'm away from LJ for a while and so someone posts but newer things have knocked it off my friends page), but if I see snippets, I tend to read them, and if I'm not super pressed for time, I like to comment. I **love** LJ for supplying me with interesting reading material!
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I satisfy the urge for public storytelling by putting up tiny, unrelated things on LJ. That's **very** gratifying.
I did NaNo one year, and was lucky enough to have three or four people who read the resulting novel and offered feedback and constructive criticism. I need to revise the end of that novel and haven't gotten around to it. I wrote another novel that I only showed a couple of people; that one is out looking for an agent right now.
I love it when my LJ friends post snippets of stuff. Sometimes I miss things (if I'm away from LJ for a while and so someone posts but newer things have knocked it off my friends page), but if I see snippets, I tend to read them, and if I'm not super pressed for time, I like to comment. I **love** LJ for supplying me with interesting reading material!