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Have We Met Before?

[Based on the song by Sarah Barrios and Eric Nam]

When a sudden snowstorm traps Jisu in a café, she can't help her curiosity—nostalgia—over one of the baristas.

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[16woodsequ]

[livingthewritelife-things]

When I get an email: 🤨

When it's from ao3: 😃😁😊🥰😍🤩😃

[write-on-world]

[ao3commentoftheday]

Image is of a very damaged road. There is an extremely short section in the middle that has been repaved and has fresh lines painted on it. At the bottom of the image, over a pothole, are the words "the beginning." Over the freshly paved section are the words, "A random part of a story I just imagined whilst sitting on the toilet." At the top of the image, over the rest of the damaged rode are the words, "The ending."

Image is the same as above, but cropped to show just the well-paved section of the road. The image is now labelled, "oneshot"

[ao3commentoftheday]

I feel guilty wanting people to comment.I feel like if my work was good enough, they would :(

This is definitely a common feeling amongst authors, and I think part of it stems from our cultural view of artists/creators. 

We often hear writers say things like “I just had to write this” or “the characters were screaming at me” and that gives off the impression that writing is going to happen no matter what. Writers have to write. Artists have to draw. If creative people can’t let their creativity out, they go a bit nuts. 

The dissonant part of this is that, while creative people do have an innate drive for creation, they don’t have an innate drive to share that creativity. Needing to make something and needing to share it are two different things, serving two different purposes. Creating the work satisfies a part of you that has a story to tell or a vision to make real. Sharing that work is done in the hopes of satisfying a need for making a connection with people about that work. 

Wanting people to comment is a natural part of sharing your work with them, and nothing for you to feel guilty about. 

What readers don’t understand is that desire for a connection to them. For them, the connection is made by reading your work. From their perspective, you have made a connection. The problem is, from your perspective nothing has happened. You’ve posted your work and received nothing in response. It’s like walking up to someone with a big smile on your face and saying, “Hi! How’s it going?” and having them just stand there with no change in facial expression or body language, saying absolutely nothing. The connection only went one way. 

There are lots of reasons why people don’t comment on artistic works, and only 1 of them is not liking the work itself. 

You aren’t being needy, you’re being human.

[kelefox]

Before I became an author, I was terrified of reaching out to authors to tell them I loved their work. They had already given me so much, and I felt I was adding to their workload having to read and maybe reply to my comment. Now, of course, I know better 😉

[schattenhonig]

Thank you for sharing these thoughts. I always felt like “what would one ‘thank you’ more or less mean? Probably nothing, it probably won’t even reach the author (especially if it’s a very famous one or there is a language barrier)” but the more I scroll around here, the more I think even the tiniest whisper of thanks makes all the difference. And maybe it’s especially the tiny and almost inaudible whispers, that matter most.

[sourdough-seal]

big believer that writing doesn't always have to be writing. sometimes writing is going for a walk. sometimes writing is rehearsing your characters' dialogue in the shower. sometimes writing is putting a song on loop and staring at the carpet. sometimes you need to hang out with your story instead of writing it

[yourocdoeswhat]

Having OCs is the best because all my headcanons for them are confirmed

[yourocdoeswhat]

I know I made this post but #mood

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

[wintersolsticeyeji]

the parallels are paralleling.

[wintersolsticeyeji]

Rereading Gifted.

Divine Judgment!Tori is just Gifted!Tori's worst nightmare huh

[czesca]

characters who are so inauthentic. characters who only show what they want other people to see of them. characters who simply must have control over every part of themselves. do you even get it

[gallantblade]

characters who are inauthentic even to themselves. characters who cannot allow the mask to slip. characters who struggle to have an identity past what they project out to the world.

[wintersolsticeyeji]

I think we're looking at 60k on Wildcards and I really don't know how I feel about that

[promptsforthestrugglingauthor]

Writing Prompt #2377

"You're afraid to actually succeed, because you don't know what to do with yourself after this is all done, aren't you?"

"Look, you can try to psychoanalyze me to throw me off my game, but my mother gave me years of practice dealing with that. It's not really going to throw me off."

[promptsforthestrugglingauthor]

Writing Prompt #2370

"I'm so tired of fighting. That's the thing you don't realize when you start getting involved in all this. You save everyone from one thing, and suddenly, they need you for everything. There's no days off. There's only more work to do."

[wintersolsticeyeji]

Me: Ryujin-focused fic The entire first chapter:

[cwritesfiction]

Noooooo I’m not reusing the same tropes in all my WIPs, I’m just (checks notes) “creating an author brand”