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About shonenred
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The Story So Far
“To rebuild a house that has been built improperly, you must start from the foundation.”
Old Japanese Proverb…I think.
Some of you may remember me from when I was here about a year or so ago. Those were slightly better days. With the help of a handful of the talented writers here, I managed to get my work out, and though the process was slow, I did manage to work my way up to a TR spot, and eventually a brief stint as an Advisor in Games here at Epinions. To this day I feel like the credit for this goes to november-rain, though if she were still writing here, she’d surely refuse it. Outwardly, things seemed to be going well for me here. Hell, my handle even had an underscore in it.
The only thing worth remembering about me is that I hold very few things sacred, and there are an equally minute number of things that I deem important. But as the only thing I am capable of doing well, my writing ranks fairly high on that small list. During this particular time, I felt that my skills as a writer had slipped, or worse yet, had peaked. With every single thing that I wrote, even assignments for my professors, I grew more and more frustrated with myself. The grades came back as A’s, but they held my work to a slightly different standard than I did. I just wasn’t there, plain and simple. I decided that the best course of action would be to just put the pen down for awhile, and if I managed to get it together, good. If not, then I was prepared to stop writing altogether. There’s no sense in continuing to do something if you’ve reached the height of your ability. It was with this logic in mind that I willfully neglected my duties as Advisor, one of the highest positions one can fill here. On the one hand I had done just about all I could do for myself here. I had worked my way up from a complete unknown, and with that done I felt that I had pretty much “won,” that there wasn’t much left for me here. And on the other hand, I still wasn’t sure how comfortable I was with filling that role. For one, some people who had been here for much longer than I had were being passed over. With my writing in the state it was, I couldn’t very well continue to publish here, and I felt like the last person anyone should go to for advice on how to write. So with the big transition that came with the site’s purchase (in which a few of my reviews were lost anyway), I soon decided to just do away with my account here altogether.
So college became my main priority, as well it should have. Complaining about video games would just have to wait. So I farted around in the forums at netjak.com for a long time and noticed that the less time I devoted to recreational writing and the more time I devoted to writing with very strict guidelines, the better I became at writing in general.
So now here I am, version 2.0. The summer’s here and I’ll have a bit more free time, so I hope that I’ll be hanging around here again. Ideally, I’d like to find some form of employment, paid or otherwise, from a site that does the game reviewing thing exclusively, but the bottom line is I’m here now to do what I’ve got to do. I’m not interested in a title, I’m not interested in payment. I’m here to see what I can bring to the table in the realm of writing and getting what I have to offer out to as many people as I can. And I’m not going to half-@ss it or let this hierarchal BS affect anything I do here anymore. You might see some all-new stuff, and you might see a new take on some old favorites, but whatever you see, if it’s from me, it’s gonna be different from here on out. Also, I'll be starting my Web of Trust again from near scratch, so don't be hurt if you don't reappear on it right away.
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