too many fics not enough time

hi i'm grace! this is my little corner for writing, books, and ao3. currently juggling too many fandoms and not enough time. i'm looking for friends and i follow back! :D

[missstarzlight]

Me: *sees a post that says, "go write instead of scrolling Tumblr"*

Me: *realises I'm a writer and I should write*

Also me: *continues scrolling Tumblr*

[spookyspaghetty]

[fromourarchive]

may i offer the alternative version:

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Archive of Our Own has officially reached 16 million fanworks posted on the platform!

keep the old man yaoi, yuri, enemies to lovers, whump, dead dove: do not eat, fluff, found family, crack, porn with plot, porn without plot, non-con, idiots in love, angst, hurt/comfort, blood and gore, coffee shop au, humor, canon divergence, fix-it coming

[melodicwriter]

Writing tip: have a boring book on standby. Every time you go to read it, you’ll think “ugh I’d rather be working on my WIP rn” and then you’ll go write or edit!

[writercultureis]

writer culture is getting hit by the strongest divine inspiration at the randomest things. like, you see an abandoned gothic church on holiday and that mixes with the shitty bollywood romcom you watched a year ago and you get a novel-length horror fantasy fic completely unrelated to canon. you go home and write 1 chapter two months later and never open the document again

[gigireece16]

i think autumn’s the best time to start writing your book

[curiositysavesthecat]

Fanfic writers, did you read other people’s fanfics BEFORE you wrote your FIRST EVER fanfic?

I started writing my first ever fanfic without reading anybody’s fanfic before

I read other people’s fanfics before I started writing my first ever fanfic

Not a fanfic writer

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

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[tokkibean]

serious post for once but genuinely i think to write well you need to not care if you write well. i mean obv you do, to a certain aspect, but you shouldnt be asking yourself that every sentence - is this a good sentence, is this metaphor alright, is this word a pretty-enough word etc. like i was reading back what i wrote when i first started off writing, and yeah, its def crappy but only technically. it has the structure and pacing and wtv, and when you kinda zoom out of the iffy technical aspects of IS MY SENTENCE PRETTY ENOUGH?? sometimes the bigger picture is so wonky, which is exactly why i shld learn to uh detach myself a little. yk. please dont take this as advice but like, just a thought. to comfort myself since i'm going to rewrite my wip YET AGAIN *laughs deliriously*

[kittyit]

if you start reading books again. you will feel at least a little better. I promise

[deadghostgirl12345]

[melodicwriter]

The two moods of writing your characters suffering

[red-shameless]

Presenting to you my writing cycle

[minimoons-world]

The most annoying thing that happens while you're writing is... forgetting the word but knowing the vibe.

I am not lying when I say, I spent 5-10 mins repeatedly trying to grab something out of air just to remember 'reach out'.

Like why does my brain work like that.

[the-floodwater-seeps]

i ADORE third person limited. i LOVE writing from an ‘outside perspective’ while still having a character’s thoughts and feelings to show through and affect how the story is told. keeping details from the reader is so much fun, especially when they might assume that just because a piece of writing doesn’t come directly from the mind of a character, it must surely be completely objective and unbiased.

it’s especially fun for me to use it in stories where not every chapter is focused on the same guy. i love building up an impression of certain characters in the reader’s mind based on the opinions and biases of another, and then switching focus to reveal that, actually, that’s just not accurate. that character’s thoughts might be entirely incongruous with how they behave (or how other characters perceive their behaviour). they might have their own misguided opinions and biases about the character we were focused on in the previous chapter. considering they’re written by me, they absolutely do. my characters could not provide a reliable and objective description of the people around them if their lives depended on it.

[littlemeh7]

writing is so weird because wdym I can right ANYTHING?? I can write a space story, a boring story, a romance story, a story that is in a parallel universe, fantasy stories with strange creatures, and a little mix of everything? I can make people cry over it???

[crypticgoose3]

things about being a writer no one talks about

Naming the villain/antagonist after that one person irl who annoys the hell out of you just so you can like brutally murder/traumatise them :3

Commas are a drug and we are all addicted

When you've been doing this for so long you can type with your eyes closed perfectly yet make 50 thousand typos per page while having your eyes open

Wanting literally everyone in the world to read your story one day, but when someone you know asks to read it you scream and Panic

I have voices in my head, but in order to make it seem normal I give them names and make them do things in a word doc

Getting All the ideas the moment you step out of range of any sort of note-taking objects

Listening to your book playlist and creating a pinterest board for your characters and convicting yourself this is writing

24/7 always both "this work is terrible i'll never amount to anything" and "i'm a fcking genius wow i'm incredible" simultaneously every second.

[jasontoddsguns]

“He would not fucking say that” is a Schrodinger’s phrase when it comes to Batman. There is probably Batman run where he would say that. There is also probably a run where Batman would kill the other Batman for saying that.