a flawed story is better than a story never told.

Mostly writing tips, memes and maybe some original fanfics | Watch as I make the same couple of characters fall in love 1000 times | | Main blog @sketchbook-gal-xe |

[gal-might-write]

💜Hello! I'm Andi and I never fkn learned how to read :P

This is my writing study blog (mostly reblogs and queue atm)

You can call me Gal or Andi, 21 y/o, He/Ey, !!Not always SFW!! Current fixation: Uhhh... There is a lot bouncing around in my brain rn

Main blog @sketchbook-gal-xe ✧ Hyperfixation blogs: @court-of-cosmos, @ua-reject, @whispers-of-wisteria-kny

Here's my Ao3 link!

All my fics are tagged #Gal-did-write! *Note I haven't posted much yet ( ཀ _ ཀ)

Poetry/thoughts tagged #gals paper boats

Just talking/random #rambles

⚫do NOT repost my work nor feed it the ai.

pretty much just be a respectable person and i will treat you as such.

✎ [this post was last updated on 5/11/2026]

[writingdose]

the author’s barely disguised love, joy and passion that they have for the characters, writing and their stories

[ashen-crest]

I can do it. I can write a chapter. I am capable of putting sentences together. I know what a comma is. I am Aware of the Character.

[hugsohugs]

one genre of fanfiction that seems to have mostly disappeared since i became an adult is shenanigans-type fics. like not exactly crack but just "the gang goes to 7-11" type, extremely low-stakes plot stories. the beach episodes of fanfiction. i just feel like i don't see those around so much anymore. whered they go. i miss them :(

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[pom-pom-cherry]

Any ship can be problematic if you just give me a second-

[willgrahamscock]

how are you gonna be 31 and posting fandom content bro leave it to the teenagers

People 10 and 20 years older than me are writing your favorite fanfics, and drawing your favorite characters. You'd have no fandom without the people you think are 'too old' to have hobbies.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love ao3 exactly how it is and you don’t want it to “update” or change in any way♡

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

ao3 is not changing anything by the way! some people just want them to change for some reason. my guess is that these people just don't understand how the site works and refuse to actually learn how it works, so they blame the site because it's easier for them that way.

[paperplateprose]

not now kitten. daddy's realizing that the scene he invested 1000 words into could be significantly improved but only if he started over from scratch

[tordenvejr]

art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you

[qqchurch]

[whoreiaki-kakyoin]

“Aren’t you worried ai could replace you someday” oh like ai could replicate the level of mental illness I achieve over this fictional man

[writingdose]

thank you ao3 for protecting writers and never allowing censorship to plague your platform. we love and respect you for this

[an0neemouse]

Write whatever you want. Write that incredibly niche thing that only two other people on earth will get. Write the super indulgent cliche thing that makes you kick your feet giddily. Write the angry rage story that whumps them all and makes people cry.

Whatever it is that YOU want to write. Write it. Because only YOU can.

[wrigglewormz]

I'm perfectly fine with people criticizing my favorite stories and frequently do it myself but can you stop being so boring about it

[wrigglewormz]

"This scene made me so uncomfortable" given the subject matter, it would be really, really badly written if it wasn't.

[hiveswap]

big fan of when you peel back all layers of a character and at the bottom of it there's love

[hiveswap]

why are they doing this? because they loved someone so much it caused the plot to happen. Grief counts btw

[hiveswap]

ESPECIALLY a big fan of when this isn't enough to make them a good person

[fairyblue-alchemist]

one man's hyperfixation is another man's blocked tag