#i am a fanfiction writer myself

[potassium-pilot]

I am asking this genuinely because I don't know what the general opinion is on this...

[whatkindofnameisella]

can you believe that we have fanfiction. that we have websites dedicated to fanfiction. that there is a place that you can go and read tens, hundreds, thousands and thousands of pieces of writing that strangers have made. people who are not "writers". people who come home at the end of the day and have feelings and say, i am going to put that into words. i am going to share those words. short, long, sweet, sad, horny, funny, wonderful words. we are all just human and we all love to make and remake and share that with others. can you believe that.

[erdariel]

Maybe it's just me, but one reason I love getting comments on Ao3 that point out details of the fic that the commenter liked, is that for a moment it lets me see the fic through their eyes

Like, I have a pretty big self-criticism problem, like usually within 24 hours of posting a thing, be it a drawing or a fic or whatever, I start finding more flaws than good sides in it and feeling that actually it's a pile of shit, utterly pointless and bad and thoroughly unlikable. I know this is my issue, and something I need to work on, btw, but I just. struggle ever seeing the good sides of my own work. Even work that was an idea I truly deeply liked and wanted to see done! Even things I enjoyed working on!

But when someone leaves a comment that's like "oooh I like how [x] and I love [y] detail!!" it kind of. Let's me for a moment see past my own issues. It lets me look at the work, and the details pointed out, and go "you know what? yeah, that thing there is very good". Sometimes, on a good day, it might even give me enough time to actually re-read my own fic and enjoy it

So, readers: if you read a fic, and there's a detail you like - no matter how big or small, whether a minute detail of the description of someone's clothing, or something about the way the story is structured, or literally anything! - let the author know! If there's any detail that stood out to you in a way you liked, and you feel at all inclined to leave a comment, then please, let the author know the detail that caught your eye! It can brighten up their day so, so much!

[crowleys-hips]

once i stop doomscrolling, and procrastinating, and abandoning wips and starting new ones to then abandon those, and sitting down to not write and fall into random rabbit holes about duck behavior and astronomy documentaries instead, and thinking of the story and daydreaming of the story and not writing the story, it's over for all you fuckers. just you wait.

[batshitcraz]

"age gap" this, "young reader", that!!!

NO. give me age SIMILAR reader. I don't want that bs age gap. I want reader close if not same age as x character.

FUCK young reader

[allaboutlov3]

"i write sins not tragedies"

sincerely, marauders fanfic writers

[sincerely-sofie]

Me: Wait. Oh my gosh. Am I an angst writer???

Friend: ... Sofie.

[infinite-orangepeel]

reblog if steddie made you gayer

[artemistorm]

I wonder if the reason why I tend to get overlooked as an LU writer is because I tend to write for Wild and Hyrule and not the "cool" Links like Legend, Warriors, Time or Four.

[potatoisvibing]

writing a fanfic oscillates between making canon your bitch via playing the characters like puppets and spending an hour drawing a room layout from the little the source has given you

[vincent-sinclair-deserved-better]

shoutout to all non-american writers who include their own culture in their writing, even when the setting is not their home country

[wonderful-world-of-midget-mcgee]

This isn't how it's supposed to work

[achaotichuman]

When you come up for a cool plot detail for your fic but don't remember if you said something in earlier chapters that would contradict it, so you're going through the whole fic desperately making sure you don't accidentally make a retcon.

[schrijverr]

oneshot im working on has chapters now, 420 injured 69 dead

[kiwisandpearls]

you shouldn't feel pressured to have characters be in character and have your fics be as close to canon as possible when writing fanfiction.

you wanna keep all the characters in character and make sure your fic aligns with canon perfectly? Thats cool! You wanna do the opposite and write characters out of character in ways you’d like and ignore canon? That’s also cool!

your not writing official material, your writing fanfiction. Go as wild or as mild as you want with it. don’t let people try and shame you into doing one or the other.

[silly-southparkproshipper]

Real footage of me because I don't know how to start a story because all I have is the middle and end in my head: