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@warriors-wyrms-writing
say hello to the newest youngarts winner in fiction writing!!!!!!
I won for my story spirits of rot, and will be receiving monies, access to a workshop, and scholarship opportunities for it!
itāll be available for a read on the youngarts website soon ^~^
Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.
You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.
wow this scene in my head is great. once i write all 50,000 words to get there then you'll understand too
Borrowed Flowers Before the Buddha (10379 words) by warriors_wyrms_writing Chapters: 4/? Fandom: äŗŗęø£åę“¾čŖęē³»ē» - å¢Øé¦éč | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - MĆ²xiÄng TĆ³ngxiĆ¹, Tangled (2010) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Mobei-jun/Xiang Fei | Shang Qinghua, Liu Mingyan/Ning Yingying/Sha Hualing, Su Xiyan/Tianlang-jun, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu/Yue Qingyuan Characters: Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Liu Qingge, Tianlang-jun, Zhuzhi-lang Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Tangled (2010) Fusion, Inspired by Tangled (2010), Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu and Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu are Not the Same Person, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu & Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu are Siblings, Luo Binghe is a Combination of Bingge and Bingmei, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Chronic Illness Summary: Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom known as Cang Qiong, a shooting star fell to earth. It was seen as an auspicious sign by all, blessing the union of Crown Prince Shen Jiu and Yue Qingyuan: and the star was luckier than they knew, for from it began to sprout a magical flower. But there were more eyes on the star than just theirs: exiled king Tianlang-Jun discovered the flower first, and as such, he was the first to discover its miraculous healing powers. Though it was unable to fully heal his beloved wife Su Xiyan, it kept her stable and mostly awake. And the legends of the flower began to spread. Aka: tangled au where rapunzelās role is taken by shen yuan
inspired by @justafanaticalhuman !!
CHECK THIS OUT RIGHT NOW Y'ALL. NEOWWWWWWWWW!!!!
it is finished now btw if thatās what put you off this post is from when I started
These remind me of this drawing by Franz Kafka from the 1900s. We've been feeling this way for a long time.
prev, i'm sure you mean my guy Leonid Pasternak
9th century illustration of a miserable saint (probably Matthew) trying to write
Pottery art from 450 BCE Rhodes, Greece, showing a very stressed out woman (probably Sappho) trying to write
Fragments from ancient New Kingdom Egyptian tomb circa 1350-1333 BCE showing several scribes in the depths of writing hell
Generous Heartland (2024 words) by warriors_wyrms_writing Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: äŗŗęø£åę“¾čŖęē³»ē» - å¢Øé¦éč | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - MĆ²xiÄng TĆ³ngxiĆ¹ Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu/Yue Qingyuan Characters: Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu, Yue Qingyuan Additional Tags: Title from a Maya Hawke Song, Songfic, Chronic Illness, Qi Deviation, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan Reconciliation, Pining Yue Qingyuan, Truth Spells, Based on a Maya Hawke Song Summary: Someone attempts to hit Yue Qingyuan with a truth spell. Luckily, Shen Qingqiu is there. Based on āGenerous Heartā by Maya Hawke
the reality of being a writer
I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.
I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.
And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?
"Use Libre Office."
I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.
Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.
Industry standards are industry standards FOR A REASON. Having everyone on the same workflow can be crucial to getting things done effectively and correctly without creating a lot of extra work. And those things are not going to change overnight, as much as we might want them to.
:| :| :|
Yeah, Word, let me just leave this whole chunk of dialogue without the closing quotation marks. That's the thing to do. How dare I have two punctuation marks in a row. It's not like that's how closing quotation marks fucking work.
I am going to light something on fire.
And you know, for young writers, this has got to be so detrimental just from the perspective of opening your document and seeing a million corrections that, frankly, don't need to be there. If you're a young writer you're likely not going to have the background knowledge to know what is and isn't a good suggestion, you're just going to see a document that makes it look like you made every mistake possible so clearly you must be a terrible, stupid writer and should just give up.
@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? Whatās the bar?
actually writing the fic down
There is a not-insignificant part of me that wants to grab the AO3 source code and set up a website for original web serials one can monitise.
Specifically because I want to post my original work online where someone can easily access it, like my mutual @derinthescarletpescatarian does. Which means I must not post it on AO3 because that goes against their TOS for good fandom-protecting reasons.
But I love the layout of AO3. I love making long detailed author's notes at the end of each chapter of my fics to explain why I made certain decisions I made, because I can't shut up about my own work once you get me started. I love the scene breaks, and the way you can add chapter summaries, and organise things into series, and tag stuff so people can find it if that kind of story is what they're after.
And I can't do that in blog posts. Not the way AO3 does.
But I have no money to keep a server running and making such a site just for my work seems frivolous...
Royal Road is a site for this, but I have no idea whether it's good on screen readers or not.
I have good news for you !!
you absolutely CAN post original work on ao3 ā*:.ļ½”. o(ā§ā½ā¦)o .ļ½”.:*ā you canāt monetize it there or post links to patreon/kofi, but you CAN post links to your tumblr, where such a thing is very much allowed. ao3 loves original work !! the TOS is basically just no chatrooms, no prompt lists, etc, only actual writing allowed
https://www.tumblr.com/justafanaticalhuman/788714188799393792/i-imagine-liu-qingge-to-have-olive-toned-skin-luo?source=share
Tangled as in the Disney princess movie with the long magic hair??? Please more about that au please it sounds fascinating
Yessir!! Iāve got my whole AU explanation (at least the initial one) noted down on tumblrā itās under the tag Iāll use for this ask: #tangled au! svsss
I canāt link it rn as Iām on mobile, but if youāre interested, just click on the tag below or search it on my blog!! I have some random bits of art floating here too under the same tag :D
there is also a fic !!
an editor's job is to keep you humble
You can really tell in fandom spaces who never served their terms in the wattpad trenches. This is the problem with so many fandoms in 2026. Too many people went straight to social media without serving time on wattpad, and now theyāre engaging in the batshit behaviors that they wouldāve gotten out of their systems by the time they graduated from wattpad university
Borrowed Flowers Before the Buddha (10379 words) by warriors_wyrms_writing Chapters: 4/? Fandom: äŗŗęø£åę“¾čŖęē³»ē» - å¢Øé¦éč | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - MĆ²xiÄng TĆ³ngxiĆ¹, Tangled (2010) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Mobei-jun/Xiang Fei | Shang Qinghua, Liu Mingyan/Ning Yingying/Sha Hualing, Su Xiyan/Tianlang-jun, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu/Yue Qingyuan Characters: Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Liu Qingge, Tianlang-jun, Zhuzhi-lang Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Tangled (2010) Fusion, Inspired by Tangled (2010), Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu and Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu are Not the Same Person, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu & Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu are Siblings, Luo Binghe is a Combination of Bingge and Bingmei, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Chronic Illness Summary: Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom known as Cang Qiong, a shooting star fell to earth. It was seen as an auspicious sign by all, blessing the union of Crown Prince Shen Jiu and Yue Qingyuan: and the star was luckier than they knew, for from it began to sprout a magical flower. But there were more eyes on the star than just theirs: exiled king Tianlang-Jun discovered the flower first, and as such, he was the first to discover its miraculous healing powers. Though it was unable to fully heal his beloved wife Su Xiyan, it kept her stable and mostly awake. And the legends of the flower began to spread. Aka: tangled au where rapunzelās role is taken by shen yuan
inspired by @justafanaticalhuman !!
saw a post on bluesky about reimagining The Iliad as a mecha war and that idea goes unbelievably hard. achilles in his legally distinct gundam cutting through dozens of enemy suits. aggamemnon in his gold-plated mech. paris using a long range sniper rifle to exploit a design flaw in achilles' armor. the gods are all various megacorps who have a stake in the war bc it'll impact their profits.
I wish you would write a fic where...
Send me an anymous (or not) summary of the fic you wish I would write. (maybe I will write a tidbit)
