#writiers

[disguisedweasels]

Woahhh crazy new fanfiction guys crazy you guys should read it. Uh. Please. Thank you

[whumpthefuck]

People need to stop seeing fanfiction authors the same way they'd see having a personal chef.

Here's the thing, with a personal chef you can ask for whatever you want, and then should be getting whatever you ordered. If the chef makes something you like and you want it slightly different next time, you can ask for that. If the chef makes something you hate, you can voice that and tell them to never make that for you again. You get 110% control over the end result.

However, finding fanfic online is more like driving around and you see a sign outside of someone's personal home that says "Free apple pie!" and you go "Damn I love apple pie" so you show up, and I still have some apple pie, and I say "OF COURSE I DO!!" and get you the ingredients list (tags) for you to look over to make sure you don't have any allergens (triggers) in the Pie. Then I give you the pie (FOR FREE). Now you have two options, you can either eat the pie enjoy it, and maybe let me know, or if you don't like the pie, you don't come by again for more free pie. It's really that simple.

However, some of you, seem to think it's okay to (in this metaphor) see that you have allergens in the pie take & eat the pie anyway. THEN come BACK TO MY HOUSE and yell at me for including allergens in the FREE pie I MADE FOR FUN and because I WANTED TO MAKE PIE, and didn't make you eat the damn pie.

I (and I'd think most writers) got into writing because we enjoy making our own stories, stories we'd want to read. We write for our own enjoyment and post for people who want to read stuff we also like to read and write. MEANING if you don't like what we write, that's fine but you don't get to demand we write exactly what you want. You don't get to complain about what we write all because it's not exactly how you want the story to be written. If you want a story written a specific way, YOU FUCKING WRITE IT THEN!!!

Fanfic authors write FOR FUCKING FREE, this is not our job, this is not done under contract, this is not done by obligation. We do not owe it to you, to write consistently, to post consistently. WE DO NOT AND CANNOT GET PAID FOR WRITING FANFICTION!! So if you want something custom do it your damn self.

This is not me saying that you can never have or voice an opinion on what you'd enjoy seeing next. Sometimes that can be a great way for fanfic authors to get new ideas, and see things in ways they may have never seen before even with their own story. However you as the reader need to understand that this is not a writer's meeting. This is a bus, where you are the passenger and we (the writer/s) are the bus driver. You are free to get on or off the bus at any time, however, you do not get to decide where the bus goes. We as writers do. You are simply along for the ride.

I should clarify that I have never had this happen, however, I see it happen enough, and I hear about it happening enough that I wanted to vent about it.

[sjstone-author]

(via Dorothy: Locked & Loaded - Part 40 | Dot: - by SJStone)

I don’t know what’s more surreal: sipping scalding mushroom broth from a cracked teacup while a stitched-up ex-emperor of Oz stares into the middle distance like a ghost, or sharing a crumbling stone hearth with a leather-jacketed monkey with a taste for raw venison.

I gulp down the soup, feeling the burn and starting to feel human again. I’m warm, fed, my clothes are dry and have me wrapped up. My face is even freshly scrubbed, but my hair is a disaster, and I wonder if I should cut it down to nothing like I did on the last deployment. Either way, I feel like a Marine again.

The Marines prepared me for a lot—ambushes, interrogations, dehydration, the slow unraveling of reality under fire—but this?

Not so much.

[aterimber]

Description: Peter has a heart-to-heart with Neal… or, so he thinks.

White Collar Fanfic, General

Words: 1,154

Interested? Read the full story over on my Patreon!

I post new short stories every 2 weeks and already have 100+ just waiting for you to discover them!

Most of them are not White Collar fanfic, but I'm adding more! Main fandom is Supernatural.

[avesssswrote]

yes.

imma start shit posting again

[writer-logbook]

Random pieces of advice about worldbuilding and plot.

If every story is worth telling, there are some elements to take into account to make it right.

Every cause has consequences. A story is logical in one way or another. Whether you plan your story or go with the flow, if you ask about: the origins, reactions and actions to be taken following an event, the pieces somehow will ‘click into place’.

Everything has a cost. Magic system, war, life in general... Don't forget that resources are not unlimited. Consider the societal, social, natural, (magical, if need be) limitations.

Challenge the statut quo and the villain's motivations (if there's a villain in the original sense of the term) : Ask yourself why the villain wants to ‘change the world’ (and really question his legitimacy) and what the world should look like after the final confrontation. If we come back to the original point, it's that the plot didn't serve any purpose, being no more than a ‘historical aside’. Remember that everything happens for a reason, so make that reason a good one.

Make actual research about geography and climate: forest, desert and especially rivers can't pop out of nowhere, they must respect certain natural principles. For example, a river must have its source somewhere, often high up in the mountains. So it seems logical that a river should be close to a mountain. Be careful if you want to incorporate a map in your story !

Be careful when you rely on chance, fate or whatever you call it. I still can't work out whether it's worse than deus ex machina - especially if it's done badly. As far as I'm concerned, if you work well enough with the cause-consequence chain and have a good grasp of the limits of your universe, you won't need to rely on this kind of process. this one is actually pretty personnal, you have every right to disagree.

[reservoirreputation]

Ever since you read and liked Dimples, I'd been thinking of reaching out and reccing Birds in the Spider's Nest (very much horror, please read the tags) because I've gotten so much positive (for the genre) feedback on it and am so proud of it.

If that's not your bag, perfectly understandable! Backup fic rec would be Bad Karma, which is playing with a lot of the canon events of ResDogs and going off in a... different, direction.

I hope you have a good time reading everyone's stuff!! ♥

✨Oh, Fuck. It’s Friday ✨

Happy Friday! Normally, I’d come with my fanfic recs to celebrate FanFiction Friday, but this week went by VERY fast, and I had to complete some trainings this week.

Instead, I’ll use this post for recommending me YOUR fanfictions, or any snippets of WIPs! I’ll take a look at them this afternoon and drop a kudos (and maybe even a comment ✨)

Your writing is valid, creative, and much-needed. Thank you for contributing positively to the artistic community 💫

[holyblanchett]

Which one of you gays is going to write an angsty melval oneshot based on this scene??

[deathbyday]

lowkey debating whether or not i should write a full ass fanfic about daisuke and reader being together through the ENTIRE mouthwashing gameplay. like literally the gameplay + you + daisuke’s relationship w/ you = boom whatever i come up with. only problems are that school is kicking my ass right now, and writers block SUCKS. i promise to the few people that actually end up reading the story, or no one at all, my writing is pretty good according to my teachers. (future english nerd here). i honestly don’t care as much if people read this or not, this is more so for me and for my satisfaction that there is at least one thing out there for my boy daisuke.

but, as of writing this, i’ve decided i’ll at least test how this story goes.

[the-most-humble-blog]

You Are Being Haunted — and Science Can’t Save You.

You are being haunted. And you don’t even know it.

Not by ghosts. Not by demons. But by something far worse.

Something that follows you. From inside you. From before you were conscious — and long after you think you’re dead.

I. What Follows You Without Footsteps?

In quantum physics, there’s a term:

Superposition — the idea that particles can exist in multiple states at once, until observed.

Observation collapses the wave. But what collapses you?

Answer: Your shadow.

You think it’s a trick of the light. But in quantum terms, it’s something else:

A probability field. A projection. A permanently entangled copy of your presence in spacetime.

Not metaphor. Not poetry. Physics.

II. It Comes Back. Every Time.

You can try to change.

Move cities.

Get therapy.

Shave your head and call it rebirth.

But the shadow doesn’t care.

Because the shadow isn't a symptom. It’s a recording.

A data echo of everything you’ve been. And everything you're capable of being again.

If you’ve ever tried to escape yourself — Only to circle back into old habits, old wounds, old lusts — That wasn’t weakness. It was recursion.

And recursion is physics. Not failure.

III. Quantum Haunting Is Real. Here's the Data.

Not allegory.

Literal evidence exists.

Hiroshima, 1945.

When the atomic bomb dropped, thousands vaporized in microseconds. But their shadows did not.

人影の石 (Hitokage no Ishi) — The Human Shadow Etched in Stone.

A woman sitting near the Sumitomo Bank. Vaporized by thermal radiation.

But the stone steps behind her were bleached — except where her body shielded them.

Her final shape. Frozen into reality. A dark imprint of her last moment of life.

They call it: The Human Shadow of Death. The Blast Shadow.

But let’s be precise:

It wasn’t just a stain. It was a recording. Of presence. Of heat. Of witness.

And here’s what’s worse:

You’re leaving them, too. Right now.

IV. What Science Still Won’t Admit

There is no unified theory explaining consciousness.

We can split atoms. We can map genomes. But we can’t explain:

Why you dream of your ex.

Why trauma shows up as smell.

Why some memories scream without sound.

Why the past lives in your body.

There is no consensus on how the mind locates itself inside the body.

But evidence suggests:

There’s something watching you from within the field of you. Something that records every shame, lust, betrayal, fear — not emotionally, but energetically.

Your trauma? Not stored in the body. Encoded.

In the wavelength of your biofield. In the negative space of your choices. In your shadow print.

V. The Observer Effect (and Why You’re Fucked)

Quantum mechanics says:

Observation changes the outcome.

If that’s true…

What happens when you observe yourself?

Guilt. Self-hatred. Shame. Depression.

Those aren’t emotions. They’re echoes. They're your own wave function collapsing on itself.

And the more aware you become of who you’ve been — The darker the shadow that stands behind you.

VI. No One Escapes. Not Even The Enlightened.

Go meditate. Go fast. Go run barefoot through forests chanting mantras.

It won’t matter.

Even monks report psychological possession during shadow integration.

Carl Jung, the man who coined the term “the shadow self,” wrote:

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life — and you will call it fate.”

But Jung didn’t know quantum field theory.

If he did, he would’ve known:

You’re not just fighting patterns. You’re resisting a mirrored field embedded into the architecture of time.

And here's the kicker: You destroy it — you destroy yourself.

VII. The Human Shadow is Not Just Metaphor — It's Mechanism

Remember Hiroshima.

The shadow was left behind. Because the body absorbed the light.

That’s not poetic. That’s radiological fact.

Let me rephrase it for clarity:

The body was erased. The shadow stayed.

And still we ask:

Is the soul what survives death?

What if it’s not the soul?

What if it’s the shadow?

What if what stays behind isn’t divine — but undeniable?

What if you die… And what remains is everything you couldn’t face?

VIII. Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet Your Quantum Stalker

You call it:

Guilt

Anxiety

The past

A bad habit

But science has a term for it too:

Quantum entanglement.

The particles that make you… you Are never alone.

And if they once interacted with trauma? They are forever linked to the energy of that event.

Even when you leave the place. Even when the person dies. Even when you heal.

The field doesn’t forget.

And neither does your shadow.

IX. Why You Should Be Scared

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer told the story of the bomb.

But not the blast shadows.

Hollywood won't show you the real horror:

People permanently burned into stone — by light.

That’s not science fiction. That’s what’s left when energy remembers.

And energy always remembers.

You? You think you’re safe.

But the field has you documented.

Every word. Every orgasm. Every betrayal.

There is no deleting your shadow.

X. Final Revelation

You're haunted.

By what you've done. By what you've denied. By the part of you that watched you sin — and never blinked.

This is not metaphor. This is physics.

You are not being followed. You are being mirrored.

And the only way to kill your shadow?

Is to never cast one again. But to stop casting one…

You must destroy all light.

Including yourself.

And so it comes back.

Every time.

🧠 Call to Action

You are being watched. By a part of you that remembers what you’d rather forget.

Reblog if the idea of your own shadow now makes your skin crawl. Reblog if the physics of guilt suddenly makes sense. Reblog because maybe you’re haunted too — and you didn’t even know it.

⚠️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER:

This post is psychological horror, quantum theory satire, trauma field exploration, and sociocultural commentary. It is protected under the laws of literature, symbolic science, and emotionally accurate terror. If you’re uncomfortable, that’s your shadow blinking back.

[neverendingspirals]

anyone else think way too much ab baby victor….

[monthlywritingchallenges]

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[kindrasy]

honestly there are few things better than deciding to look at a story structure and realizing you've literally done most of the things purely on instinct

[greygullhaven]

I make my own images as book covers for my fics on AO3- here's what it looks like when you view the fic https://archiveofourown.org/works/47848453/chapters/120629419

And here is what it looks like when putting in the code for the image- this is in the text area where you would put in the actual text of the story-

I use Pinterest to host the images I make for my story covers and that is where i get the IMG code. On Pinterest click the “view image” option so it opens in its own window and that is the code you use to add it to AO3

Copy the link and add it to the image insert data on AO3 when you choose “insert/add image”

save it, add any other text you want on the page other than the image itself and then click post and it should be there. You can adjust the size using the height and width settings.

So as long as the link to the Pinterest image or wherever you are hosting your image doesn't get lost your picture should show up :D feel free to drop me a line if anything needs some clarification- I threw this together on about 4 hrs sleep :P 

Can anyone explain how to *actually* post images on AO3? Because I’ve tried following their instructions and it didn’t work, yet I see plenty of successful images out there.

[dive-nire]

09-22-2024

[writer-logbook]

How I improved my writing style... without actually writing.

Intro : It's just a clickbait title to talk about theory and side techniques - before actually practicing, of course.

LINGUISTIC ISN'T GRAMMAR - AND IT'S BETTER TO KNOW ABOUT BOTH. It's useful for writing impactful dialogue and giving your characters depth. Your characters' language should (ideally) take into account: their social position (rich or poor), the locality (local expressions?) and sometimes their age (different cultural references). And this is best transcribed with linguistic knowledge. In short: linguistics is descriptive, grammar is prescriptive.

The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences),  semantics (meaning),  morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages), phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language, and analogous systems of sign languages), and pragmatics (how the context of use contributes to meaning). (Linguistics, Wikipedia)

Literary theory isn't as boring as it sounds. Learn more about internal criteria of the text (figure of speech, style, aesthetic...) and external criteria of the text (the author's persona and responsability, the role of the reader and what is left to interpretation...). I refer you to the French Wikipedia page, which you can translate directly via your browser in case you need more information. (Make sure you translate the page not switch language, because the content isn't the same).

Listening to Youtube Video about the analysis of film sequences and/or scenario. Remember when I told you to read historical fiction to learn how to describe a castle properly ? Same vibe.

Novel adaptations of movies. = when the movie exists before the book, and not the other way around. e.g : The Shape of Water ; Pan's Labyrinth. In line with tip n°3, it allows us to see how emotions, scenes and descriptions have been translated into writing - and thus to better visualize concepts that may have been abstract.

Read books about authors' writing experiences. e.g : Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. Everyone's different, but they can provide some insightful tips not only on the act of writing itself, but on the environment conducive to writing, planning… Comparing completely different authors' experience could also be fun (this video of King and Martin is actually one of my fav)

Ah and many thanks for your ❤ and reblogs on my latest post ! UwU