User blog comment:Wetstream/New Year's Problems/@comment-4751506-20131227214957

I know it's cheesy and under-rated of me to just say that 'I agree!' and move on because if we're being real, everyone "agrees." But Wetty, you've made a countless number of these blogs and regardless of them all, no one does anything to help. Even I'm guilty of this - I promise myself that I'll finish all of my Songfics by a certain date, but then I put them off because they've become almost like a chore for me. Writing shouldn't be a chore. Like Wetty said, this isn't an all-writing wiki. We have blogs and activities and things, but what I've seen is a lot of our new users taking that too far and using it only as a socializing wiki. These things have to balance out, writing and socializing.

I've got a lot of New Year's resolutions planned for myself, but this is definitely going to be one of them. I need to edit more, need to socialize more, and it is definitely something we can all improve on. Arti may not be here for a long while, but even so Wetty, Rainy, and I are going to start cracking down. We're not going to keep warning users for the same old things. We need to see writers, edits longer than one-line or one paragraph. We need to see a friendly, welcoming, strong community and right now that's not what we're getting. Of course, we're not going to punish people for not being friendly, but we're beseeching you guys to at least try and improve. I know you all have lives and other things going on, but if you've joined the wiki this means that you're a writer.

Someone once said that if you write five hundred words a day, at the end of six or seven months you'll have a full novel. We write fan fiction - if we do five hundred words a day, who knows where we might go?