after browsing in the fiction gallery, I am having SERIOUS thoughts about leaving DA for good.

1) I do get comments from a few people who actually read what I post, and I appreciate them--those are the only people I'd even CONSIDER staying in contact with, if they were interested in continuing to read my POS work.

2) There are a very few people who post here whose work I actually enjoy and/or find worthy of my time.
2.a) I cannot stand fan fiction, the Japanese anime crap, the Japanese vampire hunting crap, the JAPANESE HARRY POTTER FAN FICTION CRAP, the poorly constructed sentences, the misuse of italics, bolds and underlines, the horrible dialogue, the ridiculous LACK of plot.. . almost everything about the galleries, with rare exceptions, is worthless, tiresome and ridiculous. I'm only nineteen and no, my writing was not pristine or perfect, but I wrote better at the age of 9 than most of these kids do at the age of 15!

3) I started submitting to this site as a way of showing my friends my "work". It evolved into an actually critical dialogue with other artists along the way. Now I have to slog through page after page of crap to find something halfway decent, and it's not worth it.

so. . .I might not ever post on here again. Email if needed.