June 18, 2006
Keeping Your Light Under A Bushel
Or perhaps "Blowing Your Own Horn"? :)
Every so often, I run across a post somewhere wanting you to rec your own fic. Am I weird that I just can never bring myself to do it? Maybe it's just a tad too much on the extroverted side for me to handle. Or a remnant of my childhood and my father's family's belief that one should never draw attention to one's accomplishments; it just wasn't done. Certainly there were enough times as a child I'd done something I was proud of, only to have it shot down as not worthy of any sort of special notice. Sometimes I think those sorts of things stick with you for far longer than you realize. I'm fairly certain it affects my own self image to this day.
Posted by Ithildin at June 18, 2006 12:55 PM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE