Kris P. Writes

a #writeblr side blog for kris's main blog | she/her | panromantic-ace | fantasy, slice-of-life, ya, new adult, fanfic | one half of double jump This user/writer does not use nor condone AI usage or training. I do not grant permission to use or enter my work into any Large Language Model or otherwise use my work with generative-AI. Thank you. Buy Me a Ko-fi?

[krispwrites]

Welcome to Whatever This Is!

I probably had an intro post at some point in time when I started this writeblr, but who knows where that is amid all these posts.

Hi, my name is Kris and I like to write! I've been writing for a bit over twenty years now with fanfiction, role-playing forums, and original stories. Yes, I'm old -- I'm in my mid-30s.

I have a 9-5 day job that horribly interferes with my writing, but I have vowed to start sharing more of work here (and at other places linked below) as well as any other writing-related thoughts that flit through my mind. My main/original blog is @2krisp, which I only use to reblog random things I like. If you like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, my side blog for that is @mutant-chain-reaction.

I tend to read and write fantasy, with the occasional sci-fi and cozy versions of those genres. J.R.R. Tolkien is a big inspiration, and a few of my other favorite authors include Erin Morgenstern, TJ Klune, and T. Kingfisher. I grew up on a steady diet of superhero comics and cartoons, and am still a very avid gamer, which may be evident in whatever writings you see from me.

Places you can find my writing:

AO3 (top fandoms are Star Trek, the Sonic the Hedgehog Live-Action universe, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Quotev (currently have an active choose-your-own-adventure/WWYFF multi-branched Lord of the Rings series)

Masterlist of Original Writing

As stated on my blog and the other places I've linked, I does not use nor condone AI usage or training.

So, hey, if you like to read and write, particularly fantasy, feel free to say hi!

[krispwrites]

Had a lovely day mostly writing and the most difficult thing is stopping.

It's almost bedtime. I'm sleepy. I need to wind down away from my computer screen.

But I could REALLY keep on writing.

[teashoesandhair]

'A popular fanfic author stopped updating her fic because she said that the stress of being constantly falsely accused of using AI was a witch hunt and it was destroying her mental health to the extent that she needed to take a break from writing, leading to multiple online discussions defending her and debates about AI accusations and how You Can't Really Tell So Leave Her Alone, and then someone realised that there were Claude coding artefacts in her fics and that it was a super pervasive problem in that particular fandom, proven definitively by looking at the source coding of each work on AO3, and she denied it for a bit but then ultimately admitted that oopsie, she had been using genAI all along, and then she deleted all of her fics off AO3 and people got mad because they were being denied access to their favourite fics, even though they now knew definitively that they were genAI slop, and then it turned out that she'd actually stopped updating the fic on AO3 in the first place because she'd been shopping it around to agents and editors as an original work with the serial numbers filed off, and she'd been in conversations with a publisher which ultimately got dropped because she'd lied to them about her AI use' oh cool, so we're in Hell, then

[teashoesandhair]

Let me be clear: if you use AI to write fanfic, paticularly if you do so in the hopes of snapping up a tradpub deal off the basis of the popularity of your worthless slop, then you are an absolute grade A ding-dong, and may the vengeful spirits of our beloved Spirk Elders haunt you via the medium of perpetual papercuts forevermore.

[creativitycache]

I am unaware of who this is referring to and feel like a small fishing boat that just saw the dorsal fin of Leviathan off the starboard bow

[teashoesandhair]

That is so extremely valid, and truly I wish that I had not myself plunged into the depths and seen the truth of the Leviathan (a gigantic plastic fish effigy that's broken off a derelict Fish & Chip shop and washed into the Atlantic: a harbinger of doom in its own synthetic tongue)

[lttrsfrmlnrrgby]

So many lessons in fandom and life boil down to make your own works for love of the game, don't go looking for ways to be an asshole to people, don't lie when people ask you something that challenges you to be better, and don't fucking cheat.

[krispwrites]

Cold Turkey Writer

I just wanted to sing the praises of the app/program that I use when writing. It's called Cold Turkey Writer, and is a downloadable program that is free (if you want a few extra features, there is a one-time payment instead of a ridiculous subscription service).

It essentially turns your computer into a typewriter in the sense that it blocks everything else on your computer so you're just staring at the blank "page." You can set up the block based on word count or on a timer, and it saves as a Notepad (.txt) file. It does autosave/back up in your computer's document folder but, obviously, encourages you to save the document after your block is over.

If you want "writing hard mode," you can disable backspacing, copy and paste, disable the delete key, and a few other tricks.

The only hang-up I've found so far is that if you use the same Notepad/document enough you will eventually type too many words on it. Like, after hitting 12k words in the Notepad file, it wouldn't let me add more, which can be problematic if that happens while you're in the middle of a word count block.

Ultimately, I think it's super neat, and has absolutely helped my writing soar the past couple of years I've had it.

What kinds of apps and programs do other folks use? I've also heard excellent things about Ellipsus, but haven't gotten a chance to explore that just yet.

[pine-farr]

[krispwrites]

Saw a Bluesky post (and can't find it again, apologies) that said, "A throuple but one person just handles the logistics."

And all I can think of is:

[Image ID: gif of Star Trek TOS Jim Kirk, Leonard "Bones" McCoy, and Spock standing together, back to the camera, Kirk's arms around the other two's shoulders]

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Today's a good day to be a writer. Tomorrow will be a good day to be a writer. Every day is a good day to be a writer.

[frederickchiltonsdivacup]

AO3 Writer Affirmations:

I do not have to reinvent the wheel every time I write fanfiction

I do not have to make every chapter's word count above 1,000 in order for it to be good

It is okay if some things don't make sense

I can write whatever I want

I am writing this shit for free

If people don't like my stuff, they can block me. If they're being mean about it, I can block them.

The most important part of writing fanfiction is having fun

Writing fanfiction is supposed to be fun

I do not have to appeal to people

This shit is fun

I am doing this all for free, and anyone who objects can go eat wet sand and worms from the sidewalk

[charactervsplot]

Unfortunately, the only way your story is going to get written is if you write it.

So sorry you had to find out this way 😔

[luna-azzurra]

Me: I have a whole scene playing in my head, dialogue and everything

Also me: opens laptop, types "the man walked into the room" and stares at it for 45 minutes

[krispwrites]

My Latest Fanfic Passed 1k Hits ❤️

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

[wdarlingyap]

writing fantasy is so fun because it starts as an escape from the dramas of real life and you build a bunch of little colorful creatures and environments, and then they develop into all these little guys with backstories and adventures that begin to speak to one another, and then they begin to feel real and have conflict and alliances and love stories...

and then you realize they are all just metaphors for real life and you are writing about real life and now it's all still about politics and religion and racism and why your dad was so good at teaching you morals but then seemingly refused to practice them himself and why was that and yayyyyyy

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[krispwrites]

The latest thing I'm writing has chapters one, two, three, four, and then "other," where I've dumped all my scene ideas that don't quite have a place in my envisioned timeline just yet.

At the time of this post, the document is 54 pages. The "other" so-called chapter starts on page 22.

Please wish me luck for whenever the heck I need to reorganize this thing.

[yesterdayiwrote]

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

[zaziki1412]

Reblog cause FACTS

[elgreytea]

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

[luna-azzurra]

Being a writer means arguing with a person who doesn't exist about a decision they'd never make.