hey! just wondering how you construct your social media aus. I've been trying to get into fic writing and it seems like one of the easier things to do, but I don't really know how to make one - apologies if this is rude (social anxiety showing)
ofc this isn’t rude!!! gate keeping ain’t it!
i think every smau is widely different, some people like to use actually ig templates and stuff but i think the easiest is having a photo collage of the photos you want for a post, not individual ones combined cus there’s a limit on how much you can have in one post.
as for captions and stuff, i like play around with the italics, indents, and font sizes.
in terms of getting pictures, pinterest is the holy grail and ig itself isn’t bad if you can’t find what you exactly want.
if you’re looking face claims, pinterest is definitely good but sometimes you need to scour ig for certain peeps. i have a board full of way too many face claims. if i see someone i think is good on ig or even tiktok, i pop their name into pinterest or ig and try to accumulate photos!
for stories some make it on ig or some on Canva, either works tbh. and for dms, it’s also the matter of fonts sizes, italics and what not.
for tweets, most people use an online generator and there are loaddddds lying around!
smaus don’t really require much of a plot, at least personally. i think it just needs to be coherent enough? like we’re seeing the reader and the point of the smau clearly.
hope that helps but feel free to ask or message any other questions! ♡︎
