good afternoon everyone! ♡︎
id like to use my platform this afternoon to walk you through how i, and many others, typically write a fic!
it starts with an idea! we can spend hours dreaming up a plot, thinking of the right words to use, imagining it in our heads, bouncing the ideas off our friends to see if they’re worthy of the time it takes to write a fic.
then we gotta get it to paper. this takes TIME. depending on how vividly we see the idea in our heads, how much time we have to sit at our computers, and whether or not we get distracted with irl things—uni, mental health, work, family matters— this can take days, or even weeks!
then we edit. i read my fics so many times that the words bleed together, and make so many changes that sometimes i have to rewrite whole segments because i don’t like how im seeing it in my head as i read it. everyone’s different, but editing is hard.
sometimes we share it for others to look over. timezones can be a bitch, too, so with this one it can take up to a couple of days to get feedback from a beta reader, or a friend who’s opinion you so desperately desire bc if you’re anything like me, you think your fics are dumb without the validation.
then we agonise. we make headers, think of possible triggers, the layout of the post, how to tag the story, whether or not we even want to post it because is it even that good to share???
so please remember this: we put so, so much into writing what we write. we pour our souls into our work, tear ourselves to shreds over it, stay up late when we know we need sleep, because it’s what we’re passionate about. and then we share it with you guys.
please, please, please don’t steal our work.
if you want to be a writer, you have all the tools in your noggin’ to do it yourself. ive even spelt it out for you, step-by-step.
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