On The Wildside

I have been writing recreationally since I was twelve and people only posted stories on Quizilla. Fanfiction became my crutch when the stories in my head just had to escape. Nothing is off limits when I write. I want to break boundaries and explore ideas. 

[saying]

[ashes-to-lynx]

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.

[cwritesfiction]

Sometimes, writing is having an epiphany at 4am and debating whether or not you should get out of bed to act on it.

[darcylindbergh]

fic writers raise your hands if you like…forget what happens in your own fics

[pharmgirl71]

I’ve re-read my own stories more than anyone else, HAHAHA!

[halohunter89]

I think the only person who has read my stories more than me is @onedayyoujustchange 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

[notesinflesh]

Person: Oh, you're a writer? Write anything good?

Me: ..."Good" as in talented? As in happy? As in morally upright? No to all.

[lookerdewitt]

“I’m a writer” I whisper as I look up war statistics

“I’m a writer” I whisper as I look up when the blender was invented

“I’m a writer” I whisper as I figure out how many times you can get shot without dying

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

“I’M A WRITER” I shout when someone uses my laptop and I left the page open to stab-wound references.

[thegirlyoudontwanttomeet-deacti]

“I’M A WRITER!” I yell as I stare at a wall for hours instead of actually writing.

[alienawareness]

“I AM A WRITER!” I cry as I buy a notebook to pile on the thousand’s I have.

[theunamazingauthor]

“I’m a writer?” I say, when my family asks what I’m doing with my life.

“I’m a writer.” I say, when I rewrite the first sentence of my stories over and over again.

“I’m a writer!” I say, when I’m hit with those blazing moments of inspiration.

[alienawareness]

It got better so I’m reblogging again. Also,

“I’m a writer.” I groan as I face plant the floor because I attempted to scale a couch to get to my notebook.

“I’m a writer.” I murmur as I watch videos on escaping straight jackets.

“I’m a writer, not a serial killer. I promise.” I say as I’m being interrogated for my suspicious browser history.

“I’m a writer.” I scoff when my parents call me anti-social.

“I’m a writer. I got this.” I say as I down more coffee for the sake of one more chapter.

“I am a writer.” I grunt as I try not to write in class because the teachers always glare.

[im-only-human-221]

“You’re a writer Harry.”

[journaling-junkie-deactivated20]

“Take your writing seriously and your audience will follow.”

JJ (via journaling-junkie)

[wentiqo-deactivated20170723]

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 won’t????!! 3 love triangles and 2 quadrangles!!!! 

me: I’ll Pay You 5$ To Let The Characters Just Simply Talk To Each Other For Once

[combeferret]

#i will pay u just to have them deal with the emotional repercussions of what happened last season

[siriusc]

do you ever get stuck in between “it’s ok not to have everything on track i got time” and “i’ve already wasted my life at the ripe old age of 23”

[son-of-the-hell]

[notesinflesh]

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

[itsmealis]

today is fanfiction writer’s appreciation day, and I thought about what I wanted to do for today, but I decided that the best thing I could is this.

here’s for the writers that didn’t receive any asks today

here’s for the writers that didn’t make any appreciation list

here’s for the writers that weren’t mentioned anywhere

here’s for the writers that aren’t popular

here’s for the writers whose fics are never rec’ed

here’s for the writers whose fics have a low kudo/commenting rate

here’s for the writers that don’t get reblogs/likes

here’s for the writers that abandon their work half way because they think it sucks (spoiler: it does not)

here’s for the writers that were bashed for whatever they wrote

here’s for the writers that feel like giving up 

here’s for the writers that feel anxious when they post a fic

here’s for the writers that struggle to write

here’s for the writers that never publish anything

here’s for all writers. No matter who they are, what fandom, what ship: you guys are amazing and you make fandom a better place. 

Keep writing.

[writingdotcoffee]

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn’t sure how to start.

John Grisham (via writingdotcoffee)

[forgottengenres]

Writing one of the few activities that engages both sides of the brain simultaneously. You get the words down – that’s from the left side of the brain – 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, it’s pretty fun.

Sanjay Gupta (via clash-official)

[bigjellymonster]

Here is to all the Fanfiction authors who go unnoticed because they don’t cater to the popular ship. I see you and I think you are amazing. 

[wordsnstuff]

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 yourself “motivated”. Either way, this should benefit you somehow.

In the words of Chuck Wendig, “do not fucking multitask”. Carve out a specific time to write and use it to write. Don’t 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 can’t 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. It’s the same with studying. Don’t drive yourself up the wall because you feel you’re “on a roll”. 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 Hershey’s bar, you’ve 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 you’ve 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 don’t 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 people’s mistakes and success.

Don’t get stuck in the planning stages. You may get really excited while planning a story, that huge plot twist, a minor character’s backstory, etc, but keep in mind that at some point you’re 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: “Just write”.

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, you’re 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 won’t 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 I’ve 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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[teamfreewill-imagine]

Being a fic writer like

Friend: How’s the writing going? You’ve been at it for hours

Me: