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I firmly believe that fanfiction readers have the best poker faces. Like, no one is more sneaky/better at lying than those who have read crazy fanfiction smut in public while looking as casual as if they were responding to a text.
Sometimes, writing is having an epiphany at 4am and debating whether or not you should get out of bed to act on it.
fic writers raise your hands if you likeā¦forget what happens in your own fics
Iāve re-read my own stories more than anyone else, HAHAHA!
I think the only person who has read my stories more than me is @onedayyoujustchange š¤·š»āāļøš¤·š»āāļø
Person: Oh, you're a writer? Write anything good?
Me: ..."Good" as in talented? As in happy? As in morally upright? No to all.
āIām a writerā I whisper as I look up war statistics
āIām a writerā I whisper as I look up when the blender was invented
āIām a writerā I whisper as I figure out how many times you can get shot without dying
āIāM A WRITERā I shout when someone uses my laptop and I left the page open to stab-wound references.
āIāM A WRITER!ā I yell as I stare at a wall for hours instead of actually writing.
āI AM A WRITER!ā I cry as I buy a notebook to pile on the thousandās I have.
āIām a writer?ā I say, when my family asks what Iām doing with my life.
āIām a writer.ā I say, when I rewrite the first sentence of my stories over and over again.
āIām a writer!ā I say, when Iām hit with those blazing moments of inspiration.
It got better so Iām reblogging again. Also,
āIām a writer.ā I groan as I face plant the floor because I attempted to scale a couch to get to my notebook.
āIām a writer.ā I murmur as I watch videos on escaping straight jackets.
āIām a writer, not a serial killer. I promise.ā I say as Iām being interrogated for my suspicious browser history.
āIām a writer.ā I scoff when my parents call me anti-social.
āIām a writer. I got this.ā I say as I down more coffee for the sake of one more chapter.
āI am a writer.ā I grunt as I try not to write in class because the teachers always glare.
āYouāre a writer Harry.ā
āTake your writing seriously and your audience will follow.ā
JJ (via journaling-junkie)
writers: how are we gonna top ourselves! we got tons of exciting stuff in store!! at least eleven big bads this season!!!! whos gonna survive who wonāt????!! 3 love triangles and 2 quadrangles!!!!Ā
me: Iāll Pay You 5$ To Let The Characters Just Simply Talk To Each Other For Once
#i will pay u just to have them deal with the emotional repercussions of what happened last season
do you ever get stuck in between āitās ok not to have everything on track i got timeā and āiāve already wasted my life at the ripe old age of 23ā
a guide to how authors react to comment length
one or two words: smile
full sentence: lovely warm feeling of joy
two or three sentences: riding that high all damn DAY
full paragraph: will probably name their firstborn after you
MULTIPLE paragraphs: will have a firstborn specifically to name it after you
today is fanfiction writerās appreciation day, and I thought about what I wanted to do for today, but I decided that the best thing I could is this.
hereās for the writers that didnāt receive any asks today
hereās for the writers that didnāt make any appreciation list
hereās for the writers that werenāt mentioned anywhere
hereās for the writers that arenāt popular
hereās for the writers whose fics are never recāed
hereās for the writers whose fics have a low kudo/commenting rate
hereās for the writers that donāt get reblogs/likes
hereās for the writers that abandon their work half way because they think it sucks (spoiler: it does not)
hereās for the writers that were bashed for whatever they wrote
hereās for the writers that feel like giving upĀ
hereās for the writers that feel anxious when they post a fic
hereās for the writers that struggle to write
hereās for the writers that never publish anything
hereās for all writers. No matter who they are, what fandom, what ship: you guys are amazing and you make fandom a better place.Ā
Keep writing.
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasnāt sure how to start.
John Grisham (via writingdotcoffee)
Writing one of the few activities that engages both sides of the brain simultaneously. You get the words down ā thatās from the left side of the brain ā and the melody of the writing, the feeling of it, comes from the right side of the brain. And when you feel your brain working that way, itās pretty fun.
Sanjay Gupta (via clash-official)
Here is to all the Fanfiction authors who go unnoticed because they donāt cater to the popular ship. I see you and I think you are amazing.Ā
How To Motivate Yourself To Write
This was meant to provide motivation, but honestly, this is more of a list of ways to make sure you get it done, rather than make yourselfĀ āmotivatedā. Either way, this should benefit you somehow.
In the words of Chuck Wendig,Ā ādo not fucking multitaskā. Carve out a specific time to write and use it to write. Donāt try to simultaneously write and tweet and check your email. Whether it be 15 minutes or 2 hours, write, and only write.
Take breaks occasionally. You canāt just sit there and fog up your creative lens. Go outside and go for a walk. Go to coffee with your friends for an hour. Do something to relax your brain for a while. Itās the same with studying. Donāt drive yourself up the wall because you feel youāreĀ āon a rollā. Your ideas and plans will still be there when you get back. If you begin to get frustrated or your foot starts to fall asleep, take a break.
Use a rewards system. Say, for every 100 words, you get a piece of chocolate. After eating a regular sized Hersheyās bar, youāve got 1200 words. Go you! (I personally fine this incredibly useful.)
Have people you trust hold you accountable. Have your best friend (or partner, if youāve got one) check in when they know you should be writing to make sure you did.
Read books like a writer. Read a shitty book and pick it apart to find what you donāt like about it. Read a good book to find what you do like. Use these reflections and apply them to your own work. Nothing helps quite like learning from other peopleās mistakes and success.
Donāt get stuck in the planning stages. You may get really excited while planning a story, that huge plot twist, a minor characterās backstory, etc, but keep in mind that at some point youāre going to have to sit down and hash it out. A lot of promising writers never get past the planning stages, so in the words of my very wise boyfriend:Ā āJust writeā.
Write in places that make your creative juices flow. Get cozy in bed with your laptop open to a word document, light a few candles, make some tea, get that incense going, and write. Music really helps to get in the mood as well, and if you would like to take a look at my writing playlist, here it is, free for public consumption.
Keep your mind open to new ideas and changes to your story. Your idea will develop and evolve over time, and the beauty of writing is that you can change anything you want and there are no consequences. If you decide to completely scrap a character, remove a subplot, add one in, or change the plot but keep the same characters, youāre totally free to do so. Nothing about writing is set in stone, so stay open minded to new concepts and changes and, most importantly, criticism. (I wonāt elaborate on this because I might end up making a whole other post about this topic in the future.)
As always, this is just a compilation of the tips and tricks Iāve found the most useful in my own experience. They may not help, they may help a lot, it really could go either way or somewhere in between, but all the same, I hope this proves useful to you.
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Friend: Howās the writing going? Youāve been at it for hours
Me: