User blog comment:OldSlashFriend/Flowers of Coal/@comment-7058918-20130310001705/@comment-5672532-20130310113555

Thank you, Mssr. Sledge - your words are as appreciated as your enjoyment!

However, if you look at my work and feel your motivation fade, I fear I've done you an injustice. The writing style I have comes from an occasional frustration with English grammar, and a tendancy to (over)compensate for it through using ponderous amounts of words, wahaha! I slack most every day, and usually write in five-to-thirty minute periods, craving sleep and coffe while I'm at it. I ask you to realize that - especially in an area like this, where we do our work for free - there is no competition here; or at least competition with mutual aid.

Should you desire to write a story, even one about Chrome, or perhaps even in a similar - or the same! - setting, there is absolutely nothing saying you cannot. A secret of sorts - I look at the other authors here, and occasionally feel pangs of self-doubt; but writing non-scenario fiction has a few lessons it teaches you. May I suggest this? If you feel the urge to write, do it. Share your writing with no one - for well-meaning or hateful, their input can do little but distract you at this point. Read it, then read it again. And if it makes you smile a little - perhaps more - even after the fifth time... Well, why not share it with us? I, for one'd be eager to see what you might come up with!

But, to other things - thank you, again. That phrase will never be strong or impactful enough, unfortunately. If you have any songs or artists you need help tracking down, let me know - I have kind of eclectic taste in music, and it gets thrown into my work. As someone who writes not (only) out of love but out of a strange, semi-pathological need, I can promise you that more will come. Something has been kicking around in my mind recently, though it may be a little while until it blooms... And thank you for the kind work about sprites! I cannot take full credit - without CitizenA's insanely useful silhouette tools, my job would have been much more burdensome. Check 'em out if you feel the scenario bug, as it were!

And a very good day to you, as well!