First, I agree with Alex. It must be great to have someone close to you who appreciates writing and who gets fandom. I know it always killed me back home when family members looked down at or even actively discouraged my fannish writing. (You've heard about my embarrassing moment when Mom discovered my first J/Picard, right?) It aint much better currently, but an upperclassman in my creative writing forum is a boyslashing LOTR fangirl. When she found out I slash, albeit femmishly, it was a happy day indeed. We freak out the "normal" group writers with discussions about "Mary Sue" and "PWP."

Secondly, I appreciate very much that you consider my writings/Janeway ramblings worthy of mention. I feel like I've improved a lot recently, and I ascribe that to my beta and folks like you helping with the constructive crit.

I've got a Janeway piece in the works now that is sort of a "mythology" piece--lots of backstory, even addressing the whole oft-neglected Justin, early officership mess. It's been fun to get out some of my current frustrations on it, but it lacks focus. I'll be posting it up when it's done, though, which shouldn't be too long.