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[nondelphic]

“can i read your draft?” can you survive secondhand embarrassment?

[curiositysavesthecat]

Writers, which part is usually the hardest to write to you?

The beginning of a story

The middle of a story

The ending of the story

Not a writer

Voting ended onMar 8, 2025

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[fragmentedink-archived]

YALL. Holly Black has a list of resources she's used for writing her books on the fair folk. I'm OBSESSED. I love her work and world building. it's so true to the heart of faeries

[void-botanist]

Some other resources that might be worth checking out (not strictly about faeries but related):

The Corpus of Electronic Texts, or CELT, a collection of Irish cultural materials. This includes English translations of Irish myths.

Mary Jones - similar to CELT, and a resource we used for translations in the Irish mythology class I took in undergrad.

An Encyclopedia of Fairies by Katherine Mary Briggs, a British folklorist.

The Folklore of Cornwall by Ronald M. James. Unfortunately this book is harder to access and is often only in university libraries, but if you're interested in piskies it's a potentially very helpful read.

Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall by William Bottrell.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

British Goblins by Wirt Sikes is THE encyclopedia of Welsh faerie mythology

[fellshish]

The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

[rebornofstars-deactivated202510]

you're falling in the trap!! it will be read by many people, many times, and it will live on in their memories. and maybe no single other human will match you in time spent dedicated to your story, but as a collective we will outlast you. acts of creation only grow when they are shared

[galadriel1010]

This. Writing is not like dinner. It can be consumed many times

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

No matter how much you dislike your own writing, I promise you it’s better than AI

[androgynosaurus]

Honestly be pretentious as fuck about the stuff you create. Do a press release for your fanfic updates. Do a Q&A about your webcomic. Make fake merch designs for your OCs. Commission "official" book covers. Very few of us will ever get to a stage where something we've created Makes It Big but even if you have an audience of 5 people plus a shoelace fucking indulge yourself and pretend!! It's the only way to live!!

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Protective Dialogue

"Please, tell me if your hurt."

"I won't let anything happen to you."

"They have to go through me."

"You are safe with me."

"Who has hurt you?"

"You stay here and I will check it out."

"I'm very much determined to keep you alive."

"Don't worry about me, I'm just happy to know you're safe."

"Just close your eyes and trust me."

"Can I take your hand? Don't let go, ok?"

"They will not get to you, I promise."

"You're safe with me. You always are."

"Anything happened to you?"

"Stay behind me."

"I will always stick up for you."

"Call me as soon as you get home."

"You protect me, I protect you."

"Can I walk with you? It would make me feel better."

"Nobody has the right to touch you."

"You can always come to me, alright?"

Master Prompt List

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[my-castles-crumbling]

Me at age 13, exhausted at school after staying up all night to read fanfic: I can’t wait until I’m an adult and I can stay up reading without any consequences!

Me, an adult, exhausted at work after staying up all night reading fanfic: Fuck.

[yutamayo]

[disgustinggf]

[mmelete]

i wish ao3 allowed people to give kudos per each chapter. These 100k word NOVELS need more love than 200 tiny digital hearts ☹️

[theaftersundown]

*writes two paragraphs after months of literally nothing and it took three hours*

[valtsv]

okay but "the symbolism is Real and Trying to Kill You" is my favorite kind of symbolism

[valtsv]

like yeah the monster is a representation of your unresolved trauma and guilt and a manifestation of the sins of your past but it's also a real creature and it's going to fucking Get you

[creativepromptsforwriting]

How can this character be dead, if there are 40k stories on AO3 telling me otherwise?

[sleepycatmama]

One should always have at least 2 craft projects going. That way, when one of them is messed up and misbehaving, you can switch to another, and let the first one sit there and think about what it's done.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Sometimes (oftentimes), when a creative project is "misbehaving," it's because it is tired, and overstimulated, and just needs a time out to rest -- like toddlers often need.

And sometimes, you should give your creative projects time to talk to each other, as well as to you.

[nydescynt]

Instructions unclear; my 17 ongoing craft projects have unionized against me.

[write-on-world]

[creativepromptsforwriting]

I love the fix-its. I love the AUs. I love the missing moments. I love the canon compliants. I love the canon divergents. I love the drabbles. I love the song-fics. I love the crack fics. I love the smut fics. I love the crossovers.