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when you get an ao3.org comment where someone quotes fic lines back to you?? unparalleled. brain exploding. best feeling in the world

#the thing for me is I just want to know what people liked.#And this tells me clearly that it was that part. that line hit in the right way.

johnny-depp-is-loved

Reblog if you are employed / have a full time job and are a fanfic writer who still actively writes and posts new chapters / new works.

My friend says you can’t be an adult, have a full time job and be a fanfic writer at the same time, because you’ll have to sacrifice your writing, fandom activities, for your career. And I just… don’t think that’s the case? At all? Unless I’m missing something? Unless I’m doing it wrong by being employed and still writing fanfics?

#full time job. still writing. actively posting is questionable. lol

pillowspace

There are many people who don’t share this sentiment, but I have an appreciation for when a fanfic is so separated from canon that it could’ve easily been its own original novel, and yet the author was only ever going to put that much energy into it if their favourite characters got to be there

pillowspace

I think there’s a difference between “the author stripped the media of everything it had to replace it with something easy” and “the author thought up a concept they really really like and are bestowing it upon the character like a medal”

#I can't write anything 'original' to save my life. lol #Creating original characters and world-building are the two things I can't do.#A full fledged original character I mean. I can do the basics but once I have to do add more depth I've lost them.

It's finally time. I finally started reading Project Hail Mary. I've been wanting to read it most of the year but knew I wouldn't be able to before watching the movie. Which is fine. It doesn't really bother me if I read a book before or after watching the movie based on it. I'm not that far yet (only chapter 4, 54 pages in), just started it a couple days ago. There's some differences but that's understandable. I did really enjoy the movie and so far I like the book.

But the reason I didn't read it till now was because in the beginning of the year I plan out what books I want to read in what months. Well technically it's after Christmas when I start to plan it out, since if I get books as gifts I can immediately write down when I will read them. That way they don't sit on my shelves for years before I get to them. And here in July, I had planned two sci-fi books. And I decided to read the other one first since it was shorter.

For the rest of the year I have four books planned in October and one in December. The rest are free months where I can read whatever or catch up on ones I skipped out on earlier in the year. For example, I was going to read Pride and Prejudice in February but I didn't so I could always pick it up in a month where nothing is planned. But to be honest, I'm probably going to push it back till next year February. Since February is 'romance' month.

#reading journal

intosnarkness

If you want to get better at dialogue, sit down and listen to two people have a conversation and notice how often they say each other’s names while doing so. It’s far, far less than you think.

writingdose

being a writer means there are times where you don’t write anything for a week or so, and then there are times where you write 10,000 words in one day

#I wish. I've never written that much in a days time...#but otherwise. yep. definitely true.

writingdose

being a writer is fun

writingdose

writers, instead of asking ai for help, you can always use your childhood trauma and repressed issues to help you with that fic

#nervous laughter #joking aside. if I have any repressed issues I don't know what they are. So I don't know if I'm using them.#back to the joking. I agree. put that trauma to good use!

thirstkanaphan

teawithapsycho

Some of y'all take AUs too seriously. There's a reason it's an AU.

srosehh

people who write fics. how do you feel about comments on super old ones you wrote like 2+ years ago

cha-melodius

Bringing this out of the tags:

A fic written 2 years ago is NOT OLD. Two years is nothing. Two years ago was yesterday.

Also I don't care if a fic is 10 years old. Leave those comments!! Even if you think the author isn't active, or moved on from the fandom, I promise you it will make them smile.

texasdreamer01

ellowynthenotking

I commented on a fic that was 11 years old, and there was already a response by the time I got up the next morning. Comment on the fics, please, comment on them, I promise it'll make the author's day either way

vashtijoy

I got a comment on a fic of mine this week that just read "TWO THOUSAND AND NINE?"

I replied to it within seconds, of course. someone commented on my fic

tonyglowheart

As @pentapoda put it in this post:

(transcript: Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.)

#2 years ago is not old.

anartistwhowrites

( This post is starting to get some attention, so I'd appreciate it if you'd follow my art blog @katlyntheartist )

tokkibean

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

harpyharpyharpy

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

prophetic-writer

I'm sorry but I have one draft that I never finished but I laugh every time I see it

hellsquills

Writing Tip

Neither do i

eviliens

Unreliable everyone

allthingswhumpyandangsty

I don’t take people who insult published books they don’t like by saying “it reads like fanfiction” seriously, because these people obviously don’t know fanfiction doesn’t automatically mean “bad quality”, fanfiction doesn’t automatically mean “lesser than published original novels”.

some fanfic writers put as much time, effort and research into their fics as writers who write original works do their books, if not more. (not saying every fanfic writer has to do their research, obviously, because fanfic is a hobby, not a job. but some fanfic writers do insane amounts of research on what they’re writing about, I believe some fic writers put more effort into their fics than writers who write original stories do their books.)

fanfic writers aren’t all children and teenagers either. while children and teenagers can absolutely write fics and while I think it’s super cool that they write at such a young age, a lot of fanfic writers are adults with jobs and responsibilities.

I’ve personally read fanfics that are way more professionally written than some best sellers out there.

whether a piece of writing is a fanfic or an original work has nothing to do with its quality. if anything, I’ll even argue that—while writers who publish original works—write as their careers, for money, fanfic writers literally write completely out of love and passion. there’s no money involved, no capitalism involved, no corporation behind their art. they write for free. without gaining anything in return. because they’re that passionate about the characters and the stories they write about.

obviously I am not saying “writers who write original novels as their careers aren’t passionate about their stories”, I am not saying “writers who write original novels as their careers don’t love their stories”. what I’m saying is that for them, they still gain money in return. but fanfic writers literally write purely because they love what they’re doing. without gaining any money in return. and when people make art out of love and passion, said art tends to be have souls in them.

#'whether a piece of writing is a fanfic or an original work has nothing to do with its quality.'#this quote and the first paragraph. yes. absolutely.#because saying a published book 'reads like fanfiction' is a horrible way to say the book isn't written well.#and besides there's former fanfiction stories that have been published that are very popular.#so 'reads like fanfiction' as an insult falls pretty flat if you take that into consideration.

luna-azzurra

Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.

#Ooo that's good advice!