La papelera de VanlyD'Marso

https://vanlydmarso.carrd.co/ Escritora, fanfiker, abogada, informática

[vanlydmarso]

Hi, how many books have you published so far?

Do you have any WIP

Hi🤍✨ nice to greet you! It's the first question I get asked on Tumblr! 😅😂

In my wattpad and inkspired profile you can find 12 published works. 5 of them are supposedly serious novels (2 finished and 3 in progress. One of them is being published alone because it is already finished)

and 6 finished self-contained stories.

Additionally, I have a blog in which I talk about my writing and reading process.

Also, on Ao3 you find 36 of my original fanfics, not all finished, but in my opinion they are wonderful.

Thanks for asking, greetings!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

“which self-help book would you rec—” girl read yaoi fanfiction on ao3 instead

[luna-azzurra]

Your first draft being bad is not a scandal. That’s the job. Expecting a perfect first draft is like expecting a newborn baby to do taxes.

[promptcalender]

How I ethically use genAI for my writing:

ChatGPT in particular has been so incredibly helpful in my writing process! It works perfectly in fueling my undying hatred for the slop plagiarism machine. Spite has been my singular motivator as I spend every day loathing the amount of AI covers and slop books flooding the market. AI has done what no motivational video on YouTube has managed to do: it has motivated me to sit my ass down and fucking write because I am a writer and'll be damned before I let some second hand thinker get the last laugh

[Prompt Calender: July 16th, Artificial Intelligence Appreciation Day]

[anglifx]

wow I'm so excited to continue writing my story, can't wait to stare blankly at the empty google doc page for the next hour

[an0neemouse]

Two things absolutely changed my life as a writer. You ready?

One- Your characters can be bad people, they can do bad things. There doesn't have to be a reason or a moral. You can make them bad if you want to. No other reason needed.

Two- it doesn't have to be good, it just needs to be written. On my last book i literally wrote the words "dumbest version" on the top of the page because I had seen some advice to do that. It changed everything. I stopped trying to make it perfect, I just tried to make it. Period. Full stop. You can edit bad writing. You can't edit a blank page.

And honestly? Defiance is the best writing I've ever done. All because I let my characters be bad and I gave myself the freedom to write it badly.

[oldcoyote]

if you ever doubt that your ao3 comments matter or mean something: i have been struggling with my writing for 6 months straight, crying myself to sleep afraid that i will never be able to write again, that the thing i love most in the world has left me, that my writing is just gone

this morning i got this comment:

and after i stopped blubbering over it, i picked up my writing notebook, and re-read all my fic research, and opened up my document again for the first time in weeks without being afraid of it

you have no idea how much writers treasure every single comment we get. you have no idea how big an impact you can have. sometimes, just sometimes, your one "insignificant" comment changes everything

[creativepromptsforwriting]

I do not write to be the greatest writer out there. I write because...

I LIKE it

someone else might LIKE it

it is FUN to do

I get those THOUGHTS out of my head

it's fun to look BACK on

have I mentioned it's FUN?

it's CATHARTIC

it's nice to see what I CAN DO

And also because I just like it.

[prophetic-writer]

What’s your favorite color

I'm a big fan of greens and blues but today my favorite color is that shade of blue that shadows on snow make. It's sort of grey and almost a little purple but still pretty light.

[theseventhcrow55]

i get so emotional every time i think about fanfic culture. it's just so beautiful that people are writing and anonymously posting these thousand-word stories about characters we all love and not even getting any money or public fame from it. it's literally just for the love of the game.

shout out to everyone who participates in fanfic culture, be it reading or writing fanfics. you are contributing to such a lovely thing <3

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

my toxic writing trait is imagining the scene in my head in long, full cinematic detail and then writing: “they fought. it was intense.”

[vanlydmarso]

Mi rasgo tóxico al escribir es imaginar la escena en mi cabeza con todo lujo de detalles cinematográficos y luego escribir: “Pelearon. Fue intenso”.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

my toxic writing trait is imagining the scene in my head in long, full cinematic detail and then writing: “they fought. it was intense.”

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

some people will be like “I wonder why fanfic writers don’t share their works anymore😔” and then this is them when a writer is kind enough to share something they write — as a hobby, for their own enjoyment — with them for free.

some people really don’t realize how privileged they are that they get fanfics for free. imagine having access to something for free because someone is kind enough to share it with you… and then being rude, entitled and an ungrateful pos to that person who was kind enough to share their creation with you for free

“almost 1 year is a lil too much for me” fuck off. fanfic writers don’t owe you anything. one of my favorite fics was updated after 13 years, and what I did is that I thanked the author for choosing to continue the work, I didn’t act like a spoiled toddler by asking why they didn’t update sooner. and even if a writer chooses to abandon their fic permanently with no explanation, that is their choice, their hobby, their decision. they don’t owe your entitled ass anything.

you people let tiktok rot your brains to the point you see everything as content farm and engagement. not a piece of art created by the artist’s love and passion. it’s dystopian.

[luna-azzurra]

Took me years to understand that boredom is not the enemy of writing. It is the raw material. Every good idea i have ever had arrived during a walk with no podcast, a train with no phone, a shower where i just stood there. The moment i fill every silence with content i stop generating anything of my own. I am just processing other people's thoughts instead of having mine. The empty space is where the work comes from. Protecting the empty space is the actual job.

[luna-azzurra]

Please stop starting your scenes with the weather. Not because it's a rule. Because you are doing it to avoid starting with the actual thing. You know what the scene is about. You know what's at stake. You are describing clouds because you're nervous. I understand. I did it too. But the reader doesn't need the clouds. They need the thing. Start with the thing. You can always add the clouds later if they're actually doing something. They are usually not doing anything.

[luna-azzurra]

The single most useful edit you can do before you send anything to anyone: Read it out loud. The whole thing. Every sentence. You will hear every place the rhythm breaks, every word that doesn't belong, every line of dialogue that no human being would actually say. Your eye skips over problems because it already knows what you meant to write. Your ear doesn't lie. It catches everything. It is embarrassing how much a single read-aloud will fix. Do it alone. Do it in a weird voice if it helps. just do it.

[raichett]

liking a ship but disliking the distinct set of stock fanon that they have been assigned is like one of those punishments dante came up with when he wrote the worldbuilding for hell in inferno