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mockturtletale · 2 years

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a question for fic writers: how do you manage responding to comments? do you have a system you use that helps you keep up, do you set yourself a daily or weekly goal etc.? what works best for you, if you don’t mind sharing that please?

#fanfiction #fic #fic writers #ao3 #i feel like it was just last month that i cleared my inbox #and now i've got 208 comments to reply to again #and its upsetting because replying to comments is my FAVORITE #to the point that for a long time i actually used them as incentive to write #by not letting myself get into my inbox until i finished and posted a fic #but now that i'm working full time and in full time education simultaneously #i just keep getting swamped #sometimes i'll clear the first page of my inbox and feel great #but other times i just feel so guilty about taking months sometimes to reply to people #that i just avoid ao3 for weeks #it's so hard to find balance #every pocket of free time i get i'm like #OKAY GOTTA WRITE #GOTTA REPLY TO COMMENTS #but i usually end up focusing on one to the complete detriment of the other #h e l p #how do you guys do it #also if you've let me a comment that i haven't replied to yet i am SO sorry #please know that i cherish your comments and have absolutely read all of them multiple times #but sometimes my replies are legitimately 1k+ words #and i'm not willing to cut down on my replies #i would rather not reply at all ever than be the kind of person who just posts the same generic thanks in response to every comment they get #i always return and match the energy of a comment #so if someone writes 5 paragraphs to me i'm writing 8 back #and i LOVE getting to do that #but oh my god i need a clone

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