#writing ramblings

[chrollohearttags]

remember dear writers,

your writing is a privilege, not a right. It is shared with others and not for them.

write what makes you happy + not what everybody else claims they want because their minds change like the wind. That fic is still just as perfect with or without smut and thousands of notes.

people’s reading comprehension or lack thereof is not your problem. If they can’t understand your art, it’s not for them, period. Don’t let it discourage you. You are also not responsible for anyone else’s perception of your work.

POST YOUR WORK! Stop being scared and share that shit because the right audience will find you.

you are not a content machine. If these ‘readers’ can’t be vexed to care about your well-being and wanna unfollow bc you’re not pumping out fics everyday, FUCK EM. and I mean that wholeheartedly.

lastly, you are in competition with nobody. This is for fun and nothing else. Find your tribe, enjoy your fandom/fixation and leave the other shit to the birds. This is not high school, this is not Mean Girls + we’re all adults (I hope). We’re all a bunch of weirdos simping for drawings.

[homosexualworkaccount]

Cassie and Takeda siblings…save me..save me cassie and takeda siblings

[the-ellia-west]

I want somewhere to rant all my incoherent ideas, but I want someone to ask me first, and then let me rant to them continuously whenever I feel like it

But y'all have lives.

How dare you.

How dare you have a good time living in the real world.

Lol

I should come up with a few personal tags or something like Ellia's Rambles or some shit, idk

[erraticprocrastinator]

Can I just say that, as someone who has been writing for several years, sometimes it's so hard not to compare myself to and confuse myself with the writer I used to be. Sometimes I'll be looking at a fic that's around two thousand words off being finished and be like, "sweet", I'll finish that tomorrow", because, yeah, my fourteen year old self could knock out two thousand words a day like it was nothing. I often forget that those days are long gone, and whilst I'm still capable of writing two thousand words or more in a day, it's not my normal anymore, and it's much more likely that that fic will be finished in several four hundred word sessions in between my social life, work, and, (mostly) crippling neurodivergent procrastination. But, on the flip side, I also often forget how bad some of my writing used to be, and although it now usually takes me weeks to complete a story that used to take me days to finish, the words I use now are chosen with much more care, understood much more clearly, and utlised much more effectively. It can be hard to remember how productive I used to be, but knowing how I've bloomed in other ways definitely helps.

[the-mountain-flower]

Me: *drawing concept art for a character of mine*

The character in question: tank top

Me: what?

Character: I wear tank tops. Draw me in a tank top.

Me: why?

Character: bc I like them

Me: ...ok

[syneilesis]

It seems that I am finding myself writing a continuation of that Xavier smutfic by hand

BY HAND!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you know how long that takes?????? Though I do employ drafting fics by hand every now and then because it's less distracting and I am forced to think about the words and I can slow down and be ignorant of other pressures – it's quieter too (also I just love the feel of holding a pen and writing on paper).

Anyway I won't touch other wips (next priority is the last chapter of the novelist au 🤞) until I finish this one first. I need to exorcise this fiend!!!! I'm pouring all my horny onto it!!!

[fandom-madness69]

My insurmountable writing issue these days is how the fuck do I write a fated couple as good as fucking Percabeth?

Like I've got ideas a plenty. But the idea of writing about a couple that will impact multiple generations, change the way people perceive love and how they deserve to be loved? Insur-fucking-mountable bros (G.N.)

[everlastingdreams]

Isaac Lahey x Reader : Theft Of The Heart one-shot is nearly completed (gimme an hour or so.)

Weeping Monk x Reader : Patience Of A Heart has completed writing. 

Weeping Monk x Reader : Cloaked Beauty one-shot had completed writing. 

[maul-antics]

If I ever manage to get enough energy, I will start working on the one idea in drafts that involves Jon Antilles being roped into a marriage of convenience to Nyx Ulric bc I cater to no one but myself with crossover ideas like these lmao

[winterberryholly]

Hii!! I’m super fan of your writing and I can’t wait to read the chapter 3 of On Servitude. It will be out any time soon? Please!! I’ve been waiting for so long haha. Happy holidays ❤️

Lol I know it’s been since like around this time last year! I’ve got tons of stuff I want to get out, including ch 3, and honestly very little time to write it. When I started writing for this fandom I had a pretty flexible job and no kids, and now I am full time with my toddler who never sleeps and never stops running!! So I miss my writing goals often, both here and my original stuff, but I get to really focus on taking care of my kiddo and trying to be the kind of parent I want to be. I really appreciate everyone’s patience while I do that. ❤️ especially because I SEE people in this fandom who have kids and wrote PROLIFICALLY and I’m like HOW!!!!!

[theshalesky]

look at them.

they haven't learnt how to make statues yet.

they don't have time for it. all their energy is being used to survive in their cruel world where the ground has been burnt centuries ago.

and yet they venerate their gods with a passionate devotion, crawling on their knees in front of the plain wood altars.

despite everything, they're convinced their gods exist. of course they are, they're right. their gods really do exist, and they know that because the gods have shaped their world as it is now and given them the powers that allow them to survive. so of course they're convinced they exist, it couldn't be otherwise.

really? looking at their story, we know their gods exist and ours might not. but they don't have more knowledge about their gods that we have about ours. we, too, have scriptures that tell us how god created and changed the world and how the abilities that make us human come from him.

are we any different from them? are they any different from us? neither of us know the things that we're worshipping.

[ginnsbaker]

prophylaxis is such a fun concept to work on

I can't wait to finish ILGOSS so I can change my tumblr icon lol

parking you're a crisis of my faith for requests.

[star-pup01]

A point of clarification for my fanfic readers and for ppl who follow my Zelda content.

I do not consider Zelda and Hylia one in the same (except for sksw). It simply does not make sense to me, and I feel like when people DO try to make them the same, it's to cope with the fact that Hylia is KINDA shitty.

Demise's curse has three people in it: 1) An incarnation of his hatred 2) Those with the spirit of the hero 3) Those with the blood of the goddess

Descendants.

I don't think it's out of character at all for the goddess to completely ignore Zelda in Breath of the Wild. In fact, I think that's just part of the cycle taking its toll on everyone. The goddesses appear to only want the incarnation of hatred destroyed and will do this through any means necessary. As long as the end goal of Destroy Ganon happens, fuck everyone else. They flooded the entire got damn land with unlivable waters for crying out loud. I don't think Hylia's silence was a mistake. I think it was by design. The threat WAS destroyed, it's just that the goddesses no longer care about the cost.

Why would they when it'll just happen all over again? I think THAT'S something very interesting to explore but nintendo are cowards and actually all of this was totally necessary BITING NINTENDO BITING NINTENDO BITING NINTENDO

EDIT: fuck it adding to this. Hylia even admits that she uses these tactics in Skyward Sword. Granted, a mortal needed to wield the triforce, but she constructed the perfect manipulation tactic to get Link to do what she wanted. She apologized profusely for this and regretted it, but would that remain through a millennia of watching her hero get reincarnated and changing over and over again?? IN THIS ESSAY I WILL-

[moremysteriesthantragedies]

HIS EYES WHAT!

I meant to write twinkled...

Taglist: @caxycreations, @perasperaadastrawriting

[dyrewrites]

Of course kindle create shows the print version differently, of course. Why would they make this easy.

Now I have to wait up to 72hrs before I can fix the print version.

T^T

[syneilesis]

i dont want to jinx it but ... im writing a kanetsugu fluff (as fluffy as i am capable) ficlet, and its already 4 out of 5 scenes

i really think writing by hand for my first draft is effective for me i should do this more often