This image popped into my head about a week ago and I couldn’t
resist it. I love the idea of the clones painting their armor and the
nose art on the LAAT/i gunships (“Plo’s Bros,” anyone? 😀 ), getting to
have some fun downtime. They deserve it. T^T ❤
I imagine the scene directly following this moment involves Cody
hearing Obi-Wan coming down the hallway to the hangar and marching over
to the largest paint can to fling its contents onto the art, hiding the
evidence. When Obi-Wan arrives, he’s very confused by the wails of
despair from Waxer, Boil, Crys, and Wooley, but compliments them on
their abstract nose art nonetheless. He is equally confused when, a few
days later, he looks over the duty roster and notices that the four of
them have been listed under latrine duty ad infinitum. >_>
Writing is a process that often undergoes heavy edits… that includes responding to feedback.
I had no idea this post would resonate with so many people. I let my vitriol surrounding several comments I received on a recent update get to me and it spilled out into .gif form and it’s now morphed into the most widely shared thing I’ve ever posted. So many comments and tags have said things along the lines of, “This was why I quit writing” or “This is why I hate writing fanfic.” And that’s soul crushing to hear, but I can relate.
But while there are some crappy and entitled readers, there are also many brilliant ones and I’m so grateful for them. The huge response to this post made me go back and skim through the comments on my old stories, and comments like the one below are about half the reason some of those stories got finished, even if it was months later.
Comments like these are so rare, but when they do come up, they leave me staring at my computer screen, drumming my fingers on the keyboard, struggling to convey my feelings about how their words have touched my heart. These are the comments that take the longest amount of time to respond to and the ones that cause me to wear out my backspace key the fastest.
It’s easy to complain, but it’s literally just as easy to praise, so I just wanted to take a moment to recognize all those dear and dedicated readers who have propped me up when I wanted to quit. Readers like you are why I keep writing, and why I even feel honored to do it on rare occasion.
And fellow writers, keep your heads up if you can. 🙂
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