Sillycat

Main blog is @mauvvedrake Author of Undoing Fate!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you’re a writer who’s very terrible at responding to comments from your readers, but has read them all and loves and appreciates each and every single one of them very dearly

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A HUMAN AND YOU USE EM DASH

[infinityuserboxes]

[simonghostrileys]

Incredibly fucking slow at it 🤧

[slagginbitch]

i fixed it

[robin-the-robo]

[unmooredonasundayevening]

writing tip: don’t tell us your character’s backstory. don’t tell us what your character is thinking. don’t tell us what your character is doing. don’t tell us anything. the reader should simply look at a blank page and be suddenly overcome with emotion.

[clinticalthinkr]

Good tip. I know a lot of writers who cry uncontrollably when they see a blank page, so I’m sure that feeling will translate directly to the reader.

[fanficmemes]

Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block

[fanficmemes]

“Where’s the next chapter?!” Well buddy you’re never gonna guess

[fanficmemes]

[callmebliss]

What’s the comic sans trick?

[cargopantsman]

[chaifootsteps]

#i feel like someone just asked me to eat dirt for my health

[buc-eebarnes]

wingdings' true purpose as a font

[naamahdarling]

Wingdings holy shit some of y'all are on a whole different level of galaxy wizard brain batshittery and I am in awe.

[brawltogethernow]

Exciting. When I don't want to see what I'm writing I just make the font color almost indistinguishable from the background color. (Do not do this.)

(I don't think the secret to the comic sans hack is comic sans itself; I think it's any deflation of being intimidated by your canvas.)

[brawltogethernow]

Hold on I need to go look something up immediately.

[darker-than-darkstorm]

... you can't say that and not give the link.

The Internet's best write-reward system! Write one hundred words, get an image of a kitten!

Looks like you can even make it something other than kittens, by appending ?search=dinosaur (that's the example the page gives) to the end of the URL.

[nightingaletrash]

@andauril

[todaysbat]

sharing this here because you can can do bats

[saltyoaktree]

don't want to write I want to think very hard about my fic until it emerges from my head fully formed like athena

[swordy-da-goat]

#artists

[swordy-da-goat]

Edited for all my writer friends out there

[ocheramphithere]

I awake from my slumber to throw this at ye

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

Chapter 3 is finally done 🫡

[ocheramphithere]

Forgot to mention this but I did make another fic a while ago if anybody likes wof

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

[transman-badass]

Here's to the people who can't get the words on the page. The people who are too tired after all life throws at them to write. The people who are blocked. The people who are burnt out. The people who can't write because of physical or mental illnesses. The people who don't know why they can't write. And the people struggling with all those other things that get in the way of writing and make it seem or be impossible.

You're still a writer, you're still an artist. And you matter. This world is better since you're in it. Thank you for wanting to write, even if you can't right now. I hope you and your words find each other soon.

[ocheramphithere]

Pibbs

[theonewhodrives]

Thus is based off that scene in undoing fate, right?

[katoninetailswrites]

It never ends

[that-one-fishboy-deactivated202]

WHILE ACTIVELY WRITING the next chapter of my WIP, I opened a new document and started a different one. I need somebody to like hold the reins and keep me on one story at a time

[ink-enchanted]

You know, I'm starting to wonder if we as writers are shooting ourselves in the feet by insisting we stick to one WIP at a time.

So if you're feeling guilty about starting a new project spontaneously, but the passion is there:

I hereby give you permission to go absolutely wild. Open several documents and several tabs and see where it takes you. Writing something, anything, can't be a waste of time. And anyway, unhinged writing is arguably the best way to write, so go feral.

[ocheramphithere]

Pibbs

[shichidikai]

had a dream where i logged in to ao3 and saw this

so i'm manifesting it for every author who sees this

likes charge reblogs cast, rb to wish kudos and comments upon your favorite fics

[ihni]

Writing a fic when you're uninspired:

*writes half a sentence* *checks tumblr; no updates* *checks discord; all servers; no updates* *goes back to doc* *re-reads last three sentences* *removes last half sentence written* Hmm I want some tea ... *makes tea* *checks tumblr again; one new post* *checks discord; all servers; no updates* *checks four latest opened tabs* *remembers an old fandom you haven't thought of in years; goes to AO3 to see if there are any good fics for it* *opens three new fic tabs* *remembers that you're supposed to be writing* *writes a sentence* I'm kinda hungry ... *checks cupboards and fridge for snacks* *remembers that it's ten pm and you shouldn't snack at this hour* *remembers that you made tea; it is now cold* *drinks cold tea* *re-reads last three sentences* *checks tumblr; no updates* *checks discord; all servers; no updates* *in desperation, checks twitter; it is a cesspool of evil so you check tumblr again; one update* *reblog* Hmm, I have too many tabs open ... *opens a random tab; it is a 70K fic with 1K worth of tags that you last visited three months ago* *reads fic* Four hours later: ... I should go to bed. *closes doc* Total words written: 44

[fauxmoonhare]

Renegade

By @angstmachine-rw

[innerenigma]

•Normalize Fanart for Fanfics Again You Fools•

It's not cringe anymore (it SHOULDN'T be cringe anymore), just do it. You're doing something you enjoy, who cares what anybody else says! So spread the words my fellow internet brethren.

Spread the Word :)