#writing issues

[tvaccaro]

It's okay if your first draft sucks!

Creating is hard. You're literally sifting through the dark recesses of your mind piled to the brim with chaotic thoughts and ideas, and desperately hauling them out into the light. Of course it's gonna look like shit at first!

Be patient and kind to yourself. You need time to take what you've brought back, rearrange and experiment with it, and eventually curate it into a beautiful story.

You're still getting to know your work. Don't give up on it just before you discover the beauty beneath.

[caxycreations]

The problem with internet writer culture

Tell us about your wip!

But don't advertise, ads are bad and we don't like being advertised to.

Oh but tell us about the wip!

*gives thirty second summary*

Oh that's a nice wip, mine is *gives thirty minute lecture on characters, plot twists, and origins*

Oh sorry, I thought your wip was nice. What did you think of mine?

*gives detailed and sincere compliments about what I thought of it*

I'm glad! Yours was cool, but oh! In mine *another thirty minute lecture*

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.......... Is this what passes for interaction these days or am I just unlucky? I've found like TWO people, maybe three, who will have an actual conversation with me about wips.

With everyone else it's like I'm expected to keep it short, sweet, and to the point, unless I'm reacting to theirs, and if I return the favor and gush at length about mine, they disappear or never react.

And it's a very real problem.

Because it's not just impacting me.

It's impacting a LOT of people. Because everyone wants to talk about their wip but nobody wants to listen to anyone else's, so there's so many writers that put on a veneer of "I care!" And they pretend to listen or maybe they read a little or skim, but they don't absorb it.

And then, because you've talked about your work, they now have license to talk about theirs, and they won't stop until either you stop them or make it obvious you're not listening.

But we don't do that, do we?

We do care. We want to encourage. We want to support. So we try. But then they don't return that favor. They don't actually care, but they know you want to, and you'll try to, so they'll milk that until your patience runs out.

Then what?

Then they look for the next kind heart that will sit quietly and listen.

And it's a problem.

Because we all want to be heard. But that doesn't give us the right to overpower another person in conversation just to force the other person to hear us, at the cost of their enjoyment of the interaction.

[cray-cray-anime]

thomas asstruc gives off classism vibes (and much more other bad vibes)

Not only cos of the whole every poor fam got great life/fam while rich kids don't in the show

But like how he will not take criticism from anyone and noone can write better cos they just wouldn't get doing work with "all these editorial constraints" and he's a professional (his words basically)

And honestly bad writing one thing, it another to enforce in your writing shitty things and act shitty to even the slightest criticism no matter how respectful and polite

So yeah I'd honestly suggest not watching, let ratings go down, i could really care less how it can get any worse (or better meaning they wasted like half the seasons)

The show had enough seasons many shows would kill for and crew are killing it but in the bad way

[teaedon]

(...guess what i did instead of writing...)

[p-perkeys]

for my new wip i tried the thing of typing several chapters ahead that way i will hopefully not fall behind at all, or at least not as bad,as when i was posting sweet escape, but it isn't working out well because now i just have the urge to post several chapters at one time which would entirely defeat the purpose of being several chapters ahead you know

[queermentaldisaster]

Hm. I dunno if I wanna do the Recon By Fire and Violence and Timing missions in my fanfic for a few reasons.

One, they're perfect as is, I don't really need to add any of the shifter aspects to it. Yes, it'd be nice to see Farah shifting to catch up with the convoy, but there's not really much of a practical use for the other shifted forms there.

Two, I kinda wanna fill in what happened between Hardpoint and El Sin Nombre. Because there's that downtime there, that we just have no clue what happened! It is headcanon central and I wanna take full advantage of that.

Three, both of the missions are lengthy, and I am not trying to completely rewrite MWII. I just wanna expand off the base I was given with my au, but the only way I can do that is by cutting out some missions, just like I did with everything up to Hardpoint. Timeskips are your best friends sometimes.

But on the other hand, I feel like I'm excluding Gaz and Price if I do that (especially Gaz) when I'm not, I'm just not trying to have people experience the game in a different format (fanfiction and AU in this case) but Gaz is still gonna have plenty of time to shine...even though he's not the main-main characters in the fic. I dunno, I'm conflicted.

[dannifielding]

Hi are you still here? I just want to say that I've just got into the fan fiction side of the DW fandom (stumbled across you on the fanfiction.net app) but I've been a fan of the show since I was about 6 years old. My favourite Doctor will always be Eleven, and I was wondering if you were ever going to bring him back? You did a fantastic job and I cried (I know, sad right?) You would make my say if you brought him back and I particularly love your writing of long stories and chapters. I hope you get this. Please let me know, you will make my day!

Hi :) I feel like I should put a warning for entitlement on this reply :) I am still here, as in I am still alive.

I'm still very much trying to write Danni, but it's not what it used to be.

I still have plans up to and including the 60th specials and I want so badly to get it out.

And I really wanna continue Echoes and the rewrite of the original trilogy (which would include Eleven, who is also my Doctor XD).

The reason I dropped off is twofold. One, which I own, is my mental health. I started taking medication and my motivation tanked.

But a large part of it was feedback. Or, rather, lack thereof.

People's interactions tanked. I still got favourites, and follows, but actually reviews actually took a nosedive and it's just so hard to keep going when no one wants you to do so.

When you're speaking into a void and no one replies, why would you keep talking?

If you're speaking and people reply, then suddenly they don't, what else does that say but they don't like your words?

So, to be honest, Danni mainly lives in my head now. We spend so much time together, but none of it gets put down. It's taken me almost the last two years to get to the point where I can open Word and actually put my thoughts down again.

I can't promise updates anytime soon. But eventually I want to finish Danni's story. Or, at least, finish the stories I've got going.

[absurdthirst]

Have you ever just....not had the words you want to write? Or the will to write them?

[wistfulenchantress]

does anyone else have to actively fight off the urge to make their villain complicated. like i have ONE character who is supposed to be hated. and part of me keeps trying to fix him. this is my toxic writer trait.

[simonrillleyyysss]

how my writing looks after i backread my posts and realising that every translation i’ve ever made in a story is fucked, i spelt their name wrong 250 times, i cannot spell in english, and i should proofread my stuff, and not rush my writing

( i never will)

[peyton-warren]

Hey Fic Reader, yeah you! If you like a fic, say something, hit like, reblog or comment, anything to let the author know you like thier stuff. Yes YOU!

Am hearing a trickling of info that people like my stuff, but when I look at the likes, comments, and reblogs on the pieces mentioned, I'm not seeing the folks mentioned in this second hand info anywhere.

I'm so frustrated right now because I seriously doubt my writing skills even though I've been writing fic since I was 14 which was more than a few years ago.

Do you know how many times I have wanted to completely delete Blinded By the Fog because it doesn't feel like anyone gives a shit about it? Same for Stick Handling and all the other series I've been working on.

Seriously if you like an author's work, PLEASE tell them by liking, reblogging and/or commenting. This isn't me begging for me, this is me begging for every other writer on Tumblr, AO3, and everywhere else. Your feedback is what keeps us writing, keeps us driving behind the keyboard. If you want to see more from a writer, tell them, do not assume someone else will tell them for you.

[kanraandchrome]

There's something about that powerless feeling of wanting to write, knowing what to write, planning it all in your head, starting to write, and then once you've done 500 words or so suddenly the drive is gone. Where did it go ? How can I finish what I started ? It's gone.

[rachelsfav-queer]

I’m so glad that there’s plenty of information about locations and timelines in Wednesday. It makes it super easy to construct fanfic for the series and honestly, it almost feels a little constricting cause there’s very little room to insert new events and places to build plot lines around!

(Note: this is violent sarcasm. I despise loose timelines in movies and shows.)

[booburry]

Pffft, not me over here writing another 10k word chapter despite truly thinking it was going to be under 7.

I must be really delusional.

(with final editing & a read through I should be posting tomorrow when I get home)

[my-beloved-lakes]

For example:

Monday, 5:30 P.M.

Hardison checked his phone. Still no update from Eliot. Hardison was getting hungry and wished Eliot would hurry up and get home to make dinner.

"Parker, have you heard from Eliot?" He asked.

Parker shook here head.

Ect. Ect.