I might be totally making crap up here, but I think one factor that might affect our differences there is the fact that I write a lot of drabbles.

This does make a lot of sense...but part of the reason I just can't write drabbles is every idea I have is really big and involved, and it would kill me to chop it down to 100 words. Though if I did that enough, I might start getting short bursts of ideas.

I do the same with academic papers.

Ha! What I did with paper is save them until the night before so I couldn't get fed up on them and give up. Which resulted in them still not being as revised as they should be when I handed them in!

while I do think is somewhat affected by writing skill) I think is a lot to do with the fact that a) I write mostly gen, whereas most people look for shippy and b) I really just don't put myself out there very much.

I actually think that in your case it has very little to do with writing skill, and much more to do with a and b.

Totally random FYI: I don't know if it's just my screen, but are you noticing that on your new paid-account journal pages, icons aren't visible?

It was actually like that before romanyg gave me the paid time. I was trying to set up something like my format now--where I have the one icon to the right, with no other icons visible on the "recent entry" page, but with all of them visible when you click on the "friends" page or click to read people's comments. I just don't think that was possible in the format I had, and I was about to change it when romanyg gifted me. Omg yay! /rambling and squee