#writer problems – @england-would-fall on Tumblr

listen you lot

your girl here is about to complete formal education to become a freelance editor, and i have it on good authority that i’m pretty darn skilled.

there are a ton of oc writers floating around in the fanfic community, and you’re my people, so i put it to you:

what do YOU need from an editor? what would make you more inclined to hire someone?

In exchange, please enjoy this entirely accurate hot tip from Merriam-Webster:

P.S., I’ll be posting writing and editing stuff on my pen name account, @becoming-a-fox.

england-would-fall

Question for fic writers who hear “more cakes is good,” but also feel like a box of Dunkin munchkins crammed onto a table filled with gourmet desserts: how do you, you know, cope?

#if one more handmade cannoli tells me it’s ok to be box-mix cupcakes #I’m gonna throw myself into the ocean #fanfic writer #writer problems #writing problems #fanfiction writer #writing advice #por favor

england-would-fall

I desperately needed to receive this message today

#chuck tingle #writingcommunity #writing advice #writing #writer problems #imposter syndrome #rejection sensitive dysphoria

england-would-fall

Me: I have an idea for a fic!

Audience: uh oh

Me: I’ll just jot down a few paragraphs

Audience: here we go

Me: oh no I wrote 2k

Audience: wait for it

Me: oh god that’s not much is it

Audience: wait for it

Me: oh goD it’s probably awful

Audience: wait for iiiiiiiiitttttt

Me: I should quit writing forever *runs sobbing into nearest haunted forest*

Audience: there it is