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My writing life in a nutshell.

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person in fandom: eeeyikes!!! i hope im writing this character in this short little fanfic right >_< eeekkk what if my takes on my meta are all wrong and everyone will Kill me!!

guy in professional comic industry: okay lets mischaracterize every single character that appears in this comic for 50 or so issues

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my favorite thing about saying I write is knowing I’m 100% lying and I actually just come up with really good half baked ideas and never put them on paper!

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For the ask about the chapter summary box, I don’t write but as a reader I really appreciate a few things in there:

1) a couple sentence recap of the previous chapter - only really relevant while a fic is being posted over time - less so once it’s complete. Chances are I’m reading several fics at once and will forget where we’re at in this one specifically, especially if it’s been a week or more since the last update. If it’s been several months, maybe even a summary of the whole plot so far

2) a word count for the chapter - a nice quick way to judge roughly how long it’ll take to read, so whether I have time before I get up, over lunch, before bed, whatever

3) a heads up if the chapter ends on a cliffhanger or unresolved angst - personally I’d like to avoid reading until it’s resolved and may check comments or the last part of the chapter for clues if angst seems likely. This caught me out three times in one day recently, and sure, it’s a me problem - I certainly didn’t complain to the authors and should’ve remembered to check for other clues first, but the warnings would’ve been nice and I doubt I’m the only one. Some might call it spoilers but I don’t

No-one is obliged to provide these, of course, but the first one is especially helpful for incomplete works. Some might use notes rather than the summary for the others. I also appreciate content warnings though those are often put in end notes instead.

Basically when it comes to new chapter updates, I wanna remember what’s happened, judge if I have time to read, and judge whether I’m in the right headspace to read

Thank you for sharing!

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"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god

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Get these ai writing assistants out of my face!!!! I don't care if my writing is bad at least it is mine!!!!

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I can never leave Tumblr because after years of sporadic therapy utterly failed to even approach the core of my problem some random tumblr user was like “I processed my trauma by writing a 10,000 word work of filthy fanfic erotica” and I was like “fuck it I’ve tried everything else” and now I’m 17 chapters and 20,000 words deep into an unpublishable work of obscenity and after careful literary analysis with one of the Beloved Mutuals I have come to some Terrible Revelations about my childhood and may now continue the process of Healing. Where else am I supposed to get this kind of experience. Who does this. Why are we like this. I’m never leaving. I love y’all.

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every writing tip article and their mother: dont ever use adverbs ever!

me, shoveling more adverbs onto the page because i do what i want: just you fucking try and stop me

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writing tip #3852:

writing a novel is a lot like making a lasagne: you need 2 tbsp of olive oil, 900g of beef mince, 2 onions, 4 sticks of celery, 2 garlic cloves, 2 level tbsp of plain flour, 150ml beef stock, 1 tsp of caster sugar, 3 tbsp of tomato purée, 1 tbsp of chopped thyme, 2 x 400g tins of chopped tomatoes, 50g of butter, 50g of plain flour, 750ml of hot milk, 2 tsp of Dijon mustard, 50g of parmesan, salt and freshly ground black pepper, 12 pasta sheets, and 75g of mature cheddar (grated)

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"why do you write?" because it’s the only way to silence the characters pacing around my brain like victorian ghosts with unresolved issues that prevent them from moving on.

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If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

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Someone: hey, if you’re a writer, why don’t I ever see you writing?

Me, a writer who’s been daydreaming about three characters, two unwritten chapters, some scraps of dialogue, and a partial plot that still needs to be heated up in the microwave before it’s usable:

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I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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