FireFox 3.5, Fan Mail reply, and Father's Day.

Okay, so a few minutes ago I had to reboot my system because I downloaded firefox 3.5 and I had to reboot to get it to instsall.

Why?

Anyways, I started it up and I'm not all that impressed. I've seen next to no changes, it now takes millions of years to laod up, and it's stripped every theme and addon except twitterfox from me!

Dammit.

It's not all bad. When it's loaded up, I have noticed an overall increase in speed, and it does seem generally nicer... but it's not what I was expecting.

At all.

How about this, mozzila: You find an update that stops my browser crasihng every time I try and go on something like a game or a HD video, and then I'll fall in love with you.

Moving on.

Yesterday, I went on Myspace. This isn't something I do very often. I went on there to write a mail to darren shan.

"Hey Darren, I'm not sure if you reply to fan mail over the internet, but what the hell.

Obviously, I'm a big fan, blah blah blah, you hear that all the time so we'll skip that part :P

I was at the [cencored] event back in May. I was one of the lucky people who got a ticket when another canceled. (Cancelled? Canceled? Dang.) I think it was really good. I asked you a question, too.

Too me, you're a better author than J.K. Rowling, R.L. Stine and Steven King put together!

Get off my keyboard... damn kitten... lol...

Oh yeah, the important bit. Advice.

I do some writing here on the internet. Small stories. Nothing serious. Well yeah, they're series, but whatever. No plotting or anything yet. Like I said, nothing serious.

But I'm starting to have doubts. I want to be an author when I'm older, but I feel that I'm aiming too high. Obviously, you can't tell without seeing my work, but my stories always seem to come to a dead end, get too... I don't know.

I guess I haven't found my writing style yet.

So I ask you - would it be better keep writing? Or go down a different road, like journalism or something?


-[Cencored Name]"

I got a reply from him! I've heard that he almost never replies to his myspace emails. He reads them, but doesn't reply.

" Every author struggles to find their voice when they start out -- it can take years to find it in some cases. Keep trying and believing and you WILL improve and get there in the end.

Darren."

I admit, not much of a reply, but it was more than I had the right to expect.

I CAN'T TURN ITALICS OFF!

Anyway, happy fathers day to all you fathers (or soon-to-be fathers) out there!