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[januaryisnotanartist]

Fic Writer Problems

[elumish]

Things that People Forget About When Writing Sword Fights

You don’t have to dodge by a foot. You only have to dodge by an inch.

Not all swords are made the same way. You wouldn’t fight with a katana the same way you would fight with a broadsword.

You don’t need to aim for the heart or the head. Get the vein in wrist, and you could incapacitate that hand.

Small cuts matter. If you’re cut up enough, you’re going to start suffering from blood loss, and that’ll put you at a disadvantage.

The blade isn’t the only thing that matters. There isn’t some set of rules in sword fighting where you can only stick the stabby end into the other person. Hit them in the head with the hilt, and they’ll feel it.

If there are multiple attackers, you want to incapacitate or kill each one as quickly as possible. Endurance matters, especially when you’re not only swinging/stabbing/aiming something that is 2-5 lbs (ceremonial ones were a lot heavier, but wouldn’t be generally fought with) but also taking/blocking heavy blows from at least one opponent.

[the-haiku-bot]

You don’t have to dodge

by a foot. You only have

to dodge by an inch.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[willowcrowned]

reader LIKED the fic? reader left thoughtful comment because they thought there was something worth analyzing? oh! oh! love for reader! love for reader for one thousand years!

[ot3]

my problem is that i dont want to be a professional artist but i also have never wanted to do anything but be an artist

[the-best-bibliophile]

anyone else??

[spiced-wine-fic]

[midnightsbycandlelight]

[image description: a screenshot of a tweet from N.R. Walker that reads

“Me, as a reader: STOP HURTING THE CHARACTERS HOW DARE YOU

Me, as an author: look at this poor glow stick

Character: I’m not a glow sti-

Author me: *snaps the character multiple times* look at him shine” -end id]

[itstimeforstarwars]

I’ll be honest, with every single one of my longfics I am struggling with the debate between the fact that i want to give y’all a happy ending and the fact that every time I write Obi-Wan my brain goes

[itstimeforstarwars]

I think I just figured out how to fix a plot hole in galidraan by making everything worse :)

[itstimeforstarwars]

@godoflaundrybaskets i love to choose “make it worse” every time the only downside is that every time I pick that option the story increases by like 10 chapters.

[awesomehoggirl]

Stumbles out of google docs covered in blood

[yeterah]

“why don’t you just finish one story instead of building up more and more WIPs??”

[ultraviolet-eucatastrophe]

I love when you're reading a story and you get this sense of "oh the writer enjoyed this". Like, as a distinct thing from writing that feels self-indulgent on the writer's part. Sometimes it's just like... they were having the BEST time writing this and it shows

[rederiswrites]

It is a painful truth that actually none of my fics are abandoned, no, not even the ones that haven’t updated in five years. I still know exactly what happens next, and after that, and so on. They’re not abandoned; they’re right here, haunting me, characters climbing up my pants like kittens nagging for dinner.

[festival-of-pudding]

is there anything better as a writer than an AO3 message that someone went through all your fics in a fandom? “[person] left kudos on [story1]. [person] left kudos on [story2]. [person] left kudos on [story3].” GLORIOUS. like you actually read words I wrote and thought “hmm, yes good, I will continue” and then did so. magical. i saw some Youths out there afraid this is “stalking” but as an Old let me tell you au contraire, it is a rare sweet nectar that warms our ancient dead hearts 💖

[teamcapwasrightandishouldsayit]

[wheeloffortune-design]

muse: hey. hey.

me: just put it on the pile.

muse places new idea on top of the closest pile. it shakes precariously.

[legen-waitforit-dairy]

I’ve decided that starting a 50k+ fanfic at 3 in the morning when you have to wake up early is not a rookie mistake but in fact a time honored tradition of ao3 veterans

[intoevernightfanfic]

This is me, but I'm the one writing it and determining I can do it in one day.

[mikkeneko]

*lies on the floor* why must I “write.” why can the story not simply appear, finished, in a word document, as an audience manifests to shower me with impressed applause

[musewrangler]

It made me laugh 😂😉