Writing Online: Good or Insane?

So lately, it dawned on me that online writing is a difficult and tiring bitch. This is coming from someone that has been around writing areas like fiction press and fan fiction since her early teens, (and I'm almost 21 now). Since I have started college back in late 2011, my writing for sites like these particular ones and watt pad have slow down to a great level, and it has become so difficult to get back into the road of updating a new chapter for a story that usually ends up in the dead pile of your brain.

Like you all, I do have my fair and lame share of excuses for not doing this stuff at a decent rate like I should, but sometimes reality truly hits you where the sun don't shine, and there's nothing you can do about it. Sometimes losing some fans here and there are the price to it, and sometimes you lose the confidence to write. But in the end, sometimes it's for the best for your sanity. If you like many of the writers that becomes popular over the short course of time, congrats-- you're doing well. But the question is, can you keep up with it?

I'll be frank here, I, xRayne Wolfx, cannot keep up with it. With the pace writers like myself are at this moment, we are better of setting a once every two weeks update goal. I have tried endless of times just to see if I am worthy of being a true writer. But you know what? There are writers out there, that become famous without these sites. I do use sites to get my name out there for readers, but lately, I still end up the same way and I'm okay with it. I learned to accept it now and I'm learning to figure out how to gain readers and support their butts too. In the end, we are all writers.

Now for the writers that can keep the sanity of online stuff going, that's awesome. I adore their stories and it makes me excited as a reader to see their journey rise up to the great road of 'published author'. But for the authors I keep a sharp eye on when it comes to their cockiness and slam the other writers down, I don't believe in them. It shows their well beings being unprofessional, sloppy and quite frankly-- their stories are horrible. Sure you're gonna get a thousand reviews and readers, but if you can't be 'human' enough for the readers to have a connection with them, well you're not gonna get anywhere. People need to keep a balance of writing before insanity takes over them. Writers are people too, and the idea of us sitting on our butts 24/7 is gonna end once high school is over. College, work, etc-- will drag you down, and to many writers, our art is the escape we desire. It is the concept of us reaching our dreams while being challenged by the things that holds us down. Writing online, while it may be good, but half of the time, its one of the hardest commitments you can make. If you can do it, call yourself a super writer! If not, do what I'm doing, but take it slow and don't ever give up. Never. Just find the balance you will do well, I promise.