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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 21/21 Fandom: Prison Break Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Michael Scofield/Sara Tancredi Characters: Michael Scofield, Sara Tancredi, Lincoln Burrows Additional Tags: Angst, Some bad language Summary:

Years after their separation in Gila, Sara and Michael are finding their way back to each other.

Finally finished. <3 Thanks everyone for reading <3 <3

#writing #fanfiction #prison break fanfiction

ao3tagoftheday

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The AO3 Tag of the Day is: Let Odysseus say fuck

You know that one person smiling on the crowded train?

They are writing fluff in their heads.

#writing #writers life #writing problems #fanfiction #fanfic #fanfiction writers #fanfiction secrets #fanfiction problems #we all need fluff in our lives #find something that makes you happy #even if it's shipping people who do not actually exist #as long as you are aware of that you are fineee

lonelykamui

writing-in-the-grave

What makes it worse is I’m the writer. I have complete control yet,,, here we are

caramara3

[in a nutshell]

dimensionhoppingrose

You know what’s really disturbing to me? The culture that seems to have sprung up around fanfiction. Writers spend weeks and months working on a story – I think my record is six months on A Place For Us To Dream. And so many times readers expect to just be given a chapter even if they don’t give anything to the writer in return.

I’m going to date myself a bit here, but I’ve been reading/writing fanfiction for ten years. And when I first started it was a wonderful community. There was an unspoken rule – if you read/enjoyed it, you review it. You take thirty seconds to tell an author who probably spent anywhere from three days to a week writing that chapter you just enjoyed to tell them you enjoyed it. Even if it was as simple as “Great chapter, can’t wait to see what happens next!”

Writers spend so much time on stories, and then they post it because they have this thing that they’ve invested so many hours into and they want to share it with the world. They know how they feel about the story, and they want to know how other people feel, what other people think.

And when you read it and don’t review, you know what message you’re sending that author? That they’re not worth your time, or you didn’t enjoy their story. So why should they keep posting it? Yeah they might continue working on it in their own time, for their own enjoyment, but you might never see another chapter again because you couldn’t be bothered to take thirty seconds out of your day to tell them how you feel.

I’ve written stories in eight different fandoms, ranging from very small to very big (I’ll openly admit I wrote Twilight fanfiction once. Once. It was an Alice/Jasper story and haters can hate all they want but I’m still proud of it). I took a break for a few years because I fell out of fandoms during college, and when I came back apparently it’d become the norm to just greedily consume writing without telling writers how you feel. And that is one of the saddest things in the world to me because fanfiction is where I really started getting serious about writing. It’s how I’ve honed by skills and become the writer I am today. And that was largely in part because of all the support I got when I was an itty-bitty thirteen-year-old writing crappy W.I.T.C.H. fanfiction.

Everyone keeps saying “reviews don’t matter, you should just write for yourself.” Well, you’re wrong. Reviews make or break fanfiction. Reviews tell writers whether it’s worth their time to continue posting that story online or whether they should keep it on their hard drives and never share it with the world.

Kill the attitude that reviews don’t matter. Start telling writers you like their stories. And if you don’t, if you all just continue to be invisible readers? Don’t be surprised when that writer disappears.

theroyalwords

This times 10,000. If you read something you like, speak up and tell them. You’d want the same done for you!

when you’re writing romance and there’s people snoring next door.

#writing #writing problems #writers life #fanfiction #fanfic #fanfiction writers #fanfiction problems #maybe i should write horror instead #or write during the day #where my earphones at

The Last Chapter.

me, sitting down to write the last chapter of a 100k+ fic. it has been a long journey, many sleepless nights that didn’t require a power nap the following afternoon.

then, a couple of paragraphs in, it suddenly hits me. the. last. chapter. never again will i be pouring drunk calories down my throat to match the euphoria of my characters, nor will i create a playlist of sad songs to hit the rock bottom where my characters are at, thanks to me. nevermore will be pace up and down my room to put the words together for that magic of a sentence. no more writing my author’s notes and thanking everyone for reading. there will no longer be the phrase “to be continued” written at the bottom of the page.

not for this story, at least.

there will be new stories, of course. maybe even some with these characters. but this one has reached its final sentence.

so thank you. thank you for giving me a reason to drink and an excuse to forget about the no carb thing. thank you for making me rant to my friends, then gush the following day. i will keep listening to the songs i discovered while setting the mood and i will never forget the random trivia i picked up while researching you. thank you for the impromptu rewatches in the middle of the night to get that little detail right. thanks for fucking up my sleeping pattern and making me so aware, so alive.

thank you for making me happy and, hopefully, for making others happy as well.

Farewell.