Writing is so much harder than the decades of technical stuff I've done. With technical stuff, usually I know when something is going to work or not work according to some criterion. Even when the criterion, itself, is really hard to get and can, pretty much, never be gotten completely right as someone always comes up with some new, crazy idea on how they want to use it; it's at least a good measurement before I actually make the thing and give it to someone.
With writing, I can never be sure if it's going to work until someone says, "Wow... I got that."
I love my Twin Souls beta
I know I'm going to miss someone, and I'll be sad about that. But it seems good to at least try, given that I went ahead and did that other list of close friends and probably missed someone with that, too. I'll try it chronologically, too to give it a little structure.
It started with
Hm. Maybe I should say it really started back in the Chatsubo, but that might be going too far.
Anyway... I still remember a conversation with
From the boxes and boxes of stuff, along with playing video games with Jet (specifically Kingdom Hearts II) and looking stuff up for the game, I ran across more of this fan fiction stuff and started getting intrigued. Plus, watching four or five episodes of Bleach every single day finally started bleeding into my dreams. Dreams were the start of all my fiction in November of 2007, so it seemed natural to want to write from them.
After a long conversation with
Twin Souls brought me
By actually reading

Twin Souls also attracted
On seeing those
There are also dozens of people here, fanfiction.net, and from Y!Gallery that I'm starting to get to know a bit better, like
Especially since I've so rarely had solid relationships with women other than the technical ones I've always known, this is all entirely new territory for me. Thank you all for making it so much fun. :-)