a fic: has a fun title, tags look good, ratings are all in my vibe area me: ooohhhh the summary: i’m so bad at summaries but i promise it’ll be good!!! :D me: dammit
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as a writer myself, i understand fully that writing can be hard, and summaries are the bane of my existence. but!!! you can just take a fun line from your fic! maybe it’s your favorite, maybe it’s really funny, maybe it’s really sad, whatever. take that sentence or two or three and smack them in that lil summary place on AO3. BOOM. a summary that makes me want to read your fic, not rip my eyeballs out.
you’ve totally got this. write beautiful things and don’t let summaries slow you down, you fantastic humans.
(if you need help making a summary, hit me up!! i know this post makes me seem like a bitchy son of a gun, but i promise i am actually very nice and totally willing to help you out!! i would hate for a beautiful, well-written fic to not get the recognition it deserves because of something as simple (and tricky) as a summary)
