“For The Plot,” I whisper, deleting a rad detail that no longer works as tears fall from my eyes
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my level of fanfiction productivity ranges from “typing 20,000 words over the span of 3 days” or “opening a document and staring at it for a year without typing anything at all.” there is no middle ground.
till-proven-guilty
#the truth hurts #starting another WIP can help
writing is hard
I feel this in my soul
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my level of fanfiction productivity ranges from “typing 20,000 words over the span of 3 days” or “opening a document and staring at it for a year without typing anything at all.” there is no middle ground.
till-proven-guilty
#the truth hurts #starting another WIP can help
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Writer Problems
When you lose interest in a story that you’re writing but YOU HAVEN’T LOST INTEREST IN THE STORY, YOU’VE JUST LOST INTEREST IN THAT PARTICULAR PART THAT YOU’RE WRITING AND YOU WANT TO GET TO THE GOOD STUFF THAT YOU’RE ACTUALLY INTERESTED IN BUT YOU CAN’T DO THAT WITHOUT FINISHING THE BORING PARTS
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me: how many words have i written
is it a million
is it TWO million
word counter: 409 words
me: LIES
when ur trying to write fic but u don’t wanna write it u just want it to exist
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the sad thing about “write the books you’d want to read” is that I will never be able to read my own books like any other reader
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noelleian-deactivated20190923
Wanting your story to be finished, but you actually have to write it first
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the struggle of wanting to keep writing but also simultaneously trying to accept that you’re falling asleep at your laptop.
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Planning stories: yaaas
Planning dialogue: YAAAAAS
Actually writing: No
Editing: please kill me
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doorwayintootherworlds
Writing a first draft which already has massive plot holes.
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This is the best explanation I could come up with for why it takes me so long to do updates sometimes when, at other times, I’m typing them up like clockwork.
also this:
facts.
I’m like this with my original fiction, too.
You guys forgot this one:
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Anonymous asked:
as much as i agree w/ the recent advocacy for more attention to fanfics, i think a lot of it is ignoring the fact that the reason art gets more notes is because it only takes a second to look at and process the information of a picture, but it can take a while for someone to read something all the way through especially if they have trouble reading for whatever reason, i dont really think its fair to ignore that bit
You’re absolutely right.
A writer’s audience is automatically smaller than an artist’s. There are more steps in consuming written media than there are in consuming visual media.
Fanart: You see the art > understand the idea > Like it
Fanfic: You see the fic > read the words > understand the idea > Like it
Literally any human being can look at a piece of drawn art and know whether they like it. Unlike with fanart, there are additional hurdles in getting from reading to understanding to liking a fic.
Some of these may be cultural or linguistic (either not understanding Japanese/western story conventions or literally being unable to read the language.) Some of them may be temporal: you literally don’t have the time to invest in reading a 50k fic because your life doesn’t allow for it. Some of them may be neurological/cognitive in the individual reader: learning disabilities, etc. And some of them (although not much, admittedly) might just be a result of reading level.
If anything, these limitations circumscribe fanfiction’s audience even more tightly. Reading written work requires your time and attention, the engagement of your mind in imagining what you’re reading, and the ability to read at all, which is not easy or universal.
Writers know that it takes more time to read and understand fanfic that it does to see fanart. I don’t care how long it takes someone to read what I write. I care that they bothered to show up at all.
I get more hours of your time than any artist does and that blows me away, that the conversation we were having as storyteller and listener was important enough to you to demand that much of your time and effort.
All I want to know from a reader is: was it worth it? Do you feel your time was well-spent?
the trouble with writing is that it’s literally always easier to just lie facedown on your floor and make inarticulate noises
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DO YOU KNOW THAT KIND OF WRITER’S BLOCK WHERE YOU ALREADY HAVE A PLOT, YOU KNOW WHAT TO WRITE BUT YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO WRITE IT AND YOU JUST STARE AT THE COMPUTER SCREEN FOR HOURS UNTIL YOU FINALLY CLOSE THE DOCUMENT AND CURSE YOUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE
CAUSE I DO