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Thoughts on fandom, writing and the state of creativity on my end

So anyone who knows me knows I love to write. I have 7,488,509 words up in my 398 works on AO3 so it's pretty clear to anyone who has read my work or follows me that writing is a passion of mine. For me, it is an escape from the stressful day to day activities that I experience in real life and it's been that way for a while. It's an outlet for me that yes I enjoy doing and yes I'm doing it for me, but I'm also old school fandom from the days when people read stories and commented and supported other authors and encouraged people to write more with a kind word or a like and now that simply DOES NOT HAPPEN anymore and I don't get it. Now first of all, I know that not everyone who follows me pays attention to the fanfic I write so I invite you to ignore this post and what is under the cut here, but for those of you who have or do or just feel as frustrated as I do, then I invite you inside below:

#rant #writing #fandom things #fandom fustrations #writing frustrations #winteriron fandom blues #scogan fandom blues #fanfic #my struggles with creativity #i often wonder why i bother #ugh #life stuff #frustrations

Hey chat, does anyone here use ellipsus? Asking for… myself. :3

#i keep losing my wips in tumblr’s drafts and i can’t finish /jack/.#🙄#writing frustrations

when you promise yourself that it'll only be a short one-shot but then saw that you've exceeded your 2k word goal:

#i went like: oh this is takinng me a while to finish i wonder how long this is [checks word count seeing that im near 4k] oH-#fanfiction #fanfiction writing #fanfic writing #shipping #writing things #writing problems #this is a problem cause i want to reserve creativity for other fics & this is making me feel guilty cause it makes it seem i have favorites #writing struggles #writing frustrations #writing meme #summer.txt

small writing vent

ugghhhh the next chapter of Little Blobs is driving me crazyyyy I can't finish it D: Ch. 3 is going great, ch. 4 is going great, but chapter 2 refuses to be written, it's sooo frustrating

#little blobs #gabby rambles #writing frustrations

Writing fanfic of a cartoon is so weird sometimes, because there are certain medium conventions that just do not translate well.

Like, you can do absurdist visual comedy easily in cartoons. Hammerspace is a trope for a reason. That’s a little trickier to get away with in fiction.

Chapters and Episodes also aren’t the same either. A personal pet peeve of mine is when they’re treated similarly; readers at least expect one chapter to flow into the next, and the POV to be relatively consistent across the work. But in a cartoon? You can just point the camera somewhere new after every title card, you can start an episode looking at your protagonist or some side character you want to focus on.

I write for the Owl House, right? TOH has a large supporting cast and Luz is semi-often not the focus of an episode or even of a scene. Exploring what the rest of that cast is doing can be a ton of fun, and it’s very easy to do in a cartoon. In writing? No way. I find myself sticking to a few core characters’ POVs (Luz, Hunter, and Raine in my current fic Legends in the Making). If I want an Amity scene or a Lilith scene or dear god a shot of what the villian are up to, in a fic styled like a novel I really have one of three options to avoid breaking the focus and expectations:

1. Have a POV character witness what’s going on or be told it (not always possible/as interesting)

2. Write an interlude to explicitly show this as a separate section (a bit clunky but it works)

3. Just decide that third person limited can go wherever you want, and say fuck it (makes the writing feel a bit meandering and less tight, imo. Awkward if rare, frustrating if common).

I dunno if that makes any sense but I had to share my writing frustrations

#writing frustrations #fanfiction writing #writing #the owl house fanfiction #legends in the making #wendy's posts

I don’t know if this ever happens to other people, but I’ve been working on something for a while that I’m really excited to finish and share, and there is one particular passage with some imagery in it that I really love and was really proud of. And then this weekend, I was scrolling through a bunch of stuff and came across another fic that has almost exactly that same imagery. Like, they are just so, so close.

Now I have to backspace right over my passage and find another way. Because as much as it breaks my heart to lose that imagery, the unintentional similarity will just drive me insane and ruin it anyway. Sigh.

#fan fiction #lotr fanfic #writing frustrations #omg it was perfect and i’m going to miss it so much #sigh

Wrote poetry (more word vomit) formatted like House of Leaves. It’s my first time writing long-form (ish) poetry. It’s entitled Basic Words. The formatting may not work on all devices- sorry? I might make a sequel that either works better or on desktop or just basic one. Enjoy!

Basic Words

I often try to write about perspective, and emotion, and my thoughts,

and

dreams and endless questions but I find my words, no matter the kind, are always

lacking. words firm in logic, or that flow like a river, words that dance with each other

crossed

like star lovers

or that

sit

solemnly

silence.

Words that that stay, that are colorful, that are

shift,

bland

that are

artistic,

that are basic,

The words I write now

fill me with anger, with

frustration,

with annoyance, because it’s not quite right.

I express the same hollow

words and desires on paper, on technology, in speech, in thought. They echo to myself

as distortions

of what I mean to put down. They are stable to others, perfectly normal,

but I see the rot that

shows its insecurity.

Words aren’t perfection despite what I want, they don’t reach perfection

despite what I want, they don’t cross all thought despite what I want

They are simple, meant only for simple meaning and conversations, not the colorful things I

think

or hear

or see.

They describe only the black and white photo

of an abstract

painting.

I continue to write the same useless words trying to express the

same useless

thoughts,

even though these things that are functional lies mean nothing to you

because you don’t recognize this black and white photo as the

same colorful

painting you see.

Words often feel cold and uncomfortable when I try to write . They feel

stiff

and rough

and angry.

Every word is angry and stiff, when my thoughts are loose

cloudy

and dreamy

happy and and l. d and and sudden.

i i

Words are a science, and

thoughts are a mystery yet to be solved

I finish this poem, barely one at all, leaving unsatisfied and wanting for more.

More lines or stanzas about how I feel about how my paper doesn’t, how my

breathing

thoughts

are suffocated on the page.

The stanzas, the sentences,

the words,

the letters, the lines, they all mean nothing in the context of thought. Despite this I

push on as a writer and a thinker,

trying to connect the two in a useless attempt that

will never end.

I tried to finish this in a final paragraph of thought that summarized the

feelings I felt but it didn’t. Simple as that. I write these words again, still hollow,

still that black and white painting. I’ll probably never share these

words that

mean as

much as nothing,

that breathe as much as a corpse,

that express a void,

but it feels nice

to think that

I could one day show another.

For another to see what is blatantly

confusing and

nothing and useless and

a sad attempt to describe something

much more complex than

I’ll ever understand

feels comforting.

It gives me solace that one day someone will

have the words.

Written by ~Me~

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i've been whacking the same short chapter for days now and it's just not working out.. tempted to ditch it completely and just skip ahead in the action but i really need the exposition (ಥ﹏ಥ)

#writing problems #i should create and stick to a tag for these posts #writing frustrations #text is mean to me #whatever #*cries*