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don't want to write I want to think very hard about my fic until it emerges from my head fully formed like athena
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you can take a quick pause from writing to fact-check something on the internet. but watch out
Almost done with a smutty lil Steter ficlet. Can’t wait to share it with my fellow perverts :D
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what they don’t tell you about writing is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHH!!!
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"you're the writer, you control how the story goes" no not really. i wrote the first sentence and then my characters said "WE WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE" and promptly swerved into an electrical fence.
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PSA for fanfic writers
A couple nights ago I decided to reread one of my own fics. I’ve reread fics I’ve posted before, but only when someone has maybe left a good comment or something and I decide to remind myself about my own fic.
But on that particular night I wanted to do my nightly ritual of reading fic before bed, but I didn’t want to read the more intense one I was currently reading. I wanted something comforting and light. I suddenly realized that what I wanted to read was my own fic, “Can’t Fight This Feeling.” It’s the first time I’ve deliberately chosen to read something I’ve written and posted myself, just like I might choose to reread any favorite fic.
And I really liked it! There are so many amazing fanfic authors that I read, and I’m aware of my own shortcomings as a writer when stacked up against them, but you know what? It was still a warm and comforting fic, and exactly what I wanted to read.
I read the comments from readers as I went along, and a lot of them also thought it was comforting, and some of them even came back for rereads and told me it was a favorite comfort fic of theirs. What an absolute delight.
Anyway, there’s no real point to this, it just made me happy, and I wanted to talk about it. If you’re a writer, I wish this feeling on you too. I hope that you can read your own writing, and see the beauty along with the flaws. You deserve that.
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dear writers who are slower/take more time with their writing or writers who are on hiatus or writers who are trying to find their voice again, i see you and i love you and you are valid
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how many times do I have to open a wip until it writes itself
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Please remember your favorite writers are attention whores with a praise kink, they need validation to survive. Feed them comments and reblogs to save a life.
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you ever accidentally create a recurring theme in your writing. you start putting together an outline for something you’ve never written before and get partway through planning, rearrange the pieces, and go “GODDAMMIT THIS IS ABOUT GRIEF AGAIN”? because let me tell you,
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posting your fic on AO3 like
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We all agree, right?
- AI to write your novel is wrong
- A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay
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Writing is all fun and games until you have to describe a room.
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"just write the story you want to read!" they said. well, guess what, now i have 14 unfinished drafts because apparently, i want to read 14 different stories at once.
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the fanfiction in my head is soooo good wish you guys could see this
I’m not the first writer to say this and I won’t be the last, but truly one of the best things about being a writer is that everything that happens to you is just fodder for a future writing project. This knowledge gets me through so many things in life. It also pushes me out of my comfort zone because I can tell myself, “well, even if it turns out badly, it will still give me something to write about.”
Bad dates, the worst party you’ve ever been to, that insufferable guy at the office, your horrible relationship with your mom: writing fuel. Scenes that will sizzle with reality. The character that will remind everyone of that one person they know. Everything is useable. Nothing is wasted.