DS9

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For everyone who, like me, hasn't had enough DS9 in their lives for years, why not join ds9agogo? I did yesterday, and it looks good. And the show just started to be shown again in the US a few days ago, so there are even newbies! And new discussions! And old discussions that are so old they're almost new again! ;-)

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I could join, but since I hardly read fanfic these days...

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it wouldn't be much good, really.

Several things about reading fic on LJ:

1.) I am extremely picky when reading fic; being member of a fic community makes me feel as if I have to comment on everything, but it's highly likely I will only really like a fraction of what's there, and thus I will feel uneasy and probably not comment on *anything*. (Yes, I know - this is stupid. But I can't help it.)

2.) Some three years ago I realised that reading fic was detrimental to my own writing efforts. It made me feel bad to read the really good stuff, because it made me painfully aware of my shortcomings, not in a constructive way but in a way that paralysed and demotivated me. I feel better about my writing now, so maybe that wouldn't be as much of a problem anymore. However, sifting the net for good stuff also took too much time, time I could have used for writing. So, since then I have tried to channel my desire to read certain kinds of fanfic into *writing* those kinds of fanfic. And I do write more these days. I only never seem to be able to *finish* anything. I always lose my way, somewhere in the middle of the story.