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@smoaknhale78
Someone: oh there’s this show I’m watching... oh, nevermind, it’s silly you probably don’t wanna hear about it
Me, knowing fully well how much it sucks to have your passions invalidated and how cool it is to rant about something you love:
This is totally awesome and I love it
The theee most annoying this in the world:
1) Plot holes
2) Writing a character smarter than you and not knowing what to do
3) Not being able to commit to one story idea
Why I wrote it BINGO (transcript under the cut)
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favorite writing feelings
when you write a line and you know it’s a quote a fandom would love and yell about and put on aesthetic edits and analyze over and over again
when you’ve been doing slow, steady, gradual work on a project, making a little progress at a time, and suddenly something clicks and the words are flowing so easily and typing feels like flying
when your character has been through so much and it’s finally, finally paying off and they’re learning and growing and you know they’re going to find joy and you feel a little burst of love for them like they’re a real person
when you write a funny bit and laugh at your own humor
when you’re rereading something you wrote and you’re like oh my god???? this is GOOD??? I did this? I did this!
when a friend who’s read your work talks about your characters and legitimately cares about them and it feels like !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when you find a song that perfectly encapsulates a story/character and you listen to it over and over because it just feels right
when you have a brand new idea and it’s so fresh and full of possibilities and you can’t wait to start writing things down and fleshing out characters and figuring out all the details
when you’ve been working on a project for so long that the characters are like old friends and you look at the writing and know how much love and labor and time and effort you’ve put into it
when you finally finish that one project you’ve been working on for forever, and look back on it thinking I can’t believe I actually finished that
when you finish writing a scene and reread it and think there’s no way those words came out of my brain
REBLOG IF YOU DON’T MIND WRITERS TAKING TIME OFF FOR THEIR MENTAL HEALTH
YOU have to come first!
As long as they’re not @writeanapocalae they are allowed!
Everyone deserves time off, no matter what
Write Your Story
I just showed my 11-year-old son how many coffee shop AUs there are on AO3.
Why?
He sat down the other day to write a Minecraft story about three kids who go through a portal in their back yard and end up in the world of Minecraft where they have to battle all the big bosses (I didn’t even realize there WERE big bosses in Minecraft but that’s beside the point). He wrote three chapters with a little input from me – his first beta – and y'all?
He was fucking excited. To be writing a story.
Today he came home from school and seemed a little down, so I asked him about it only to find out that some little asshole at his school told him, “There is already a Minecraft story.”
Me: Okay? So what?
Lucifer: If there’s already a story, no one will read mine.
Immediately, I dragged him in and pulled up my AO3 account. My boys know I write fanfiction, so I showed him my account and how many subscribers I have. Then I showed him how many Teen Wolf stories there are. And then, because it seemed like the perfect analogy, I said, “What if I wrote a story where two characters meet in a coffee shop and fall in love? No werewolves, nothing at all to do with the actual Teen Wolf universe. Just Stiles and Derek meet in a coffeeshop and fall in love.”
He laughed.
I showed him Mornings Aren’t For Everyone. Showed him how many hits it had, how many kudos, how many lovely comments.
Then I said, “So do you think, if anyone else wrote a story about those exact same characters meeting in a coffee shop and falling in love… would anyone read it?”
He laughed and said, “No because you already did.”
So I clicked on the Sterek tag and refined to coffee shop AU. His mind was blown to see that they ALL had thousands of hits and kudos and comments. Then I clicked on JUST the coffee shop AU tag and showed him all the fics across all the fandoms written by countless different people.
I’m going to tell you all now what I told him because it applies to everyone.
Write your story. It doesn’t matter that someone else has written a story about that subject. They didn’t write YOUR story. Only you can do that.
And I want to read your story.
I think we all need to read this sometimes. Like, even if you think your story is just another version of the same plot-line I assure you, we still want to read it! Everyone adds their own unique twist to every piece they write, whether they realize it or not. And often times, those twists are the best part! So who cares if someone’s already written a slow burn tattoo parlor au with that specific ship? Write it anyway! Because believe me, somebody WILL love to read it.
I mean I SAY I love the ‘Enemies to Lovers’ trope but what I really MEAN is that I love the
‘Enemies to Resentful Allies In A Time Of Crisis to Grudging Mutual Respect to Growing Fondness Concealed By Snark to Hurtful Betrayal to Slow Reconciliation With A Greater Understanding Of Each Other to Strange But Solid Friendship to Unexpected Feelings In A Time Of Crisis to Denying Their Feelings While Growing Closer As Friends to Epiphanies Of Love In The Worst Possible Circumstances to Mutual Pining to Unbearable Sexual Tension to Lovers’
trope
So...in a perfect universe, Leonard Snart and Barry Allen?
The reason enemies to lovers is so attractive a trope is that it’s the one dynamic that demands full truth and unconditional love of both parties and really that’s what we all want; and the reason enemies to lovers is such a despised and rejected trope is that that’s also exactly what we are all afraid of.
I agree with this statement, wholeheartedly. I love the enemies to lovers trope because both sides end up embracing each other in such a complete way; accepting all the harsher sides that previously made them enemies and loving each other despite all of it.
“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.
“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement.
“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”
“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”
Things I didn’t know
“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”
You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.
Okay, but someone please explain question marks when followed by a dialogue tag. How do?
“The speech tag is still part of the previous sentence,” she explained, ‘so it isn’t capitalised.“
“What do you mean?” he asked. “But there’s a full stop as part of the question mark!”
She nodded gravely. “I know!” she said. “A lot of people find this confusing. But the speech tag belongs to the line of dialogue, it’s still part of the sentence, so it’s wrong to capitalise it.”
She reblogged the post again, because she had recently read far too many potentially enjoyable stories marred by poor dialogue punctuation.
I’ve only seen this post in screenshots till now..
NOICE. Can’t wait to use this
“There are two more ways"—she pointed to the blackboard—“to punctuate interruptions. One is with the em dashes outside the quotations marks to indicate continuous speech. The action occurs at the same time as speech. The other—” she sipped from a glass of water “—is em dashes within the quotation marks to indicate interrupted speech.”
Sooo didn’t realize some of this before, definitely gonna go back and edit now
Write It Down
Every time you start a wip, or even if you’re halfway through one, keep a notebook or a doc where you write all of your ideas. And I mean all.
Whether it’s a writing prompt that you want to use, character ideas, dialogue prompts, moodboards that remind you of your wip, songs that remind you of your wip, a doodle you draw of a character idea, or a random plot twist that you think of while you are in the grocery store.
WRITE. IT. DOWN.
I cannot stress this enough. Keep a record of everything related to your wip and note every thought you have down in that notebook. Take it everywhere with you.
Notice the way a stranger talks and the way their lips move, see how it reminds you of your oc and jot it down.
See that flower? That looks like something that could exist in your fantasy world. Sketch it or photograph it, then print it and stick it in the journal.
Watch the way that the old man at the corner gets crinkles around his eyes when he smiles, and remember that you want your ocs to do the same. Write that down.
Hear a snippet of a conversation that could be a prompt for a scene you were stuck on? Scribble it on the corner of one of your pages.
Take pictures of places that remind of places in your story, and try to think of what colours in the world around you would exist in your fictional world.
See the half-finished cup of coffee on the table next to you - that half-finished cup of coffee could have a story. Maybe someone was kidnapped while drinking it, or maybe they had to go somewhere in a hurry - maybe they didn’t like the drink and left it. What could happen because of that? Does something similar happen in your story?
Write. It. Down.
Notice things Observe them. And keep a journal full of observances from your daily life and how they remind you of your wip. Go back to it whenever you get writer’s block, and go back to it when you’re unmotivated to write. Remind yourself why you love your story and your characters and make them more real by connecting them to your life. Keep track of every idea you have so that when you sit at your keyboard, you’re never once lost.
Trust me. Have a notebook dedicated to writing. It will help you endlessly.
This sounds like such good advice! Like seriously, I’m gonna have to try this now...
Sokka (and I) have a message for you!
I sooo need to remember this sometimes, thought I’d pass it along
YOU’RE STILL A WRITER IF:
you don’t write every day or every week
you haven’t been able to write in a few months
this is your first story or your hundredth
you never finish a book
you are completely unpublished
All you gotta do is write!
#the next revelation he’s gonna have is gonna be about all the times Snart flirted with him (x)
IM YELLING
That tag though
Hahaha!! Yes! Barry finally came to that realization!
Barry’s face at the end though...like he truly didn’t get it until now, the sweet, innocent human being that he is.
Who else does this?
I am so guilty of this sometimes, you really have no idea
my dad–also a writer–came to visit, and i mentioned that the best thing to come out of the layoff is that i’m writing again. he asked what i was writing about, and i said what i always do: “oh, just fanfic,” which is code for “let’s not look at this too deeply because i’m basically just making action figures kiss in text form” and “this awkward follow-up question is exactly why i don’t call myself a writer in public.”
he said, “you have to stop doing that.”
“i know, i know,” because it’s even more embarrassing to be embarrassed about writing fanfic, considering how many posts i’ve reblogged in its defense.
but i misunderstood his original question: “fanfic is just the genre. i asked what you’re writing about.”
i did the conversational equivalent of a spinning wheel cursor for at least a minute. i started peeling back the setting and the characters, the fic challenge and the specific episode the story jumps off from, and it was one of those slow-dawning light bulb moments. “i’m writing about loneliness, and who we are in the absence of purpose.”
as, i imagine, are a lot of people right now, who probably also don’t realize they’re writing an existential diary in the guise of getting television characters to fuck.
“that’s what you’re writing. the rest is just how you get there, and how you get it out into the world. was richard iii really about richard the third? would shakespeare have gotten as many people to see it if it wasn’t a story they knew?”
so, my friends: what are you writing about?
This is such an eye-opener!! I never thought about writing fanfic quite like this before, but when I think about all the WIP segments in my drive this just makes so much sense! I’m rethinking everything rn...
squid’s laws of fic (not inclusive)
first law: write the fic you wish to see in the world aka goddammit do I have to do everything myself around here
second law: it’s going to be longer than you think. much longer. hahaha so long. why are you crying
third law: the time spent writing is inversely proportional to the amount of smut present, dammit
fourth law: flesh out your secondary characters. make them real people. have them take over. oh god. put them back. somebody please help
fifth law: the time spent researching canon is directly proportional to the amount of time you’ll spend altering your plot. that one person on the internet
sixth law: the time spent researching in general will eclipse the time you spend writing. the nsa agent monitoring your internet search history is curled up in a corner. his boss wants to know if you’re a threat. “I don’t know,” the agent sobs. “I just really don’t know.”
seventh law: at some point, someone will ask what your favorite hobby is. you will feign a heart attack to get away
Honestly, love the sixth and seventh laws. Just...so true.
Reblog if you write fan fiction
Doesn’t matter if you write in a frequent basis, or once in a blue moon, just how many of us are there?
Hi! Just as of a couple weeks ago!
