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Writers, reblog with your favorite sentence from your last fic

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boooooooooooooooooooo [throws tomato]

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reblog if you’re a sick fuck

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reblog to give writers the power to write 10k words of porn without plot

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I really really really don't know who to ask and I'm new to AO3😢😥😥 Is commenting too much awkward??? I'm socially inadept and interacting with people online gives me an overload of anxiety and recently I've found this fic and fell super deep in love with it and commented massive messages on each chapter. The author replied to me at the beginning but recently they just stopped (hi I understand it's not the author's job to reply and they're likely busy with their life too) but I can't help but be kind of worried that I somehow had put them off (because my comments sometimes involves analyzations and if I get into something too much I can be too excessive) I plead for advice is this normal???

while I can only speak for myself, I as a writer absolutely LOVE it when people give me long comments (the longer, the better lol) and, for me personally, there’s no such thing as too many comments.

love love love love these long comments, they help motivate me, especially when my readers give me deep analysis on the characters and/or their actions.

anyway, fellow writers, reblog if you love long positive comments

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shout out to all the writers who write porn while they’re depressed. we’re all gotta be depressed and horny

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go write 3 new sentences for your wip

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trying to subtly increase my word count (x)

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don’t know who needs to hear this but AO3 comments section is not Letterboxd. giving unsolicited criticism to a fanfic writer does not make you a “fanfic critic” because there’s no. such. thing.

giving unsolicited criticism to a fanfic writer just makes you a spoiled, rude, entitled asshole at best, makes the author stop posting their works altogether at worst.

a reminder that it’s always okay to just stop reading and quietly click away from a fic if at any point you feel like you don’t like it for whatever reasons. unless specifically asked, there’s no need to tell the author, whose work you read for free, how you dislike something they wrote for themself for fun.

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writers (me) if they (I) get paid every time they (I) actually wrote their (my) wips instead of daydreaming about them

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I just want to say thank you for running this blog, your posts are so helpful and inspirational to me (and many others, I'm sure!) I just recently quit writing fics for a certain fandom due to lack of interactions, I made a short post explaining this (tldr: "love you guys but I don't think people are reading my work anymore, see ya") and while I received several comments and asks/DMs asking for me to stay and insisting how much my work is enjoyed... I still haven't received any interactions on my fics themselves. ironic, huh?

but this blog has been very reaffirming to me that it's not *my* work, but a problem fandom has as a whole right now. which makes me feel a little more confident for future endeavors in other fandoms :') so thank you for that!

I’m honored to hear I could help ♡

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Hiiii!!!! Hope you're doing amazing!!! I NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE 😭😭 so i posted my first ever fic on ao3 and i locked it for only registered users becuz i saw ppl here on tumblr saying that fanfics are getting scrapped for ai or smth!? Right!? So i did it cuz i wanna keep it far far away from ai as much as i can. And my fic is doing not so bad engagement wise I'd say, i got 11 kudos in two weeks, it may not be much but it means the world to me. And then i got a detailed and lovely comment 😭 and now it's making me want to unlock my fic so more ppl could read it. Ik i wrote it solely for me but it's also my first first fic and i want more ppl to read it. What should I do?

ALSO, i love love love your posts and especially whump posts and I'm legit unable to stop thinking about this one ever since you posted it WHY'S NO ONE WRITING OR RECCOMENDING A FIC ON/ABOUT IT https://www.tumblr.com/allthingswhumpyandangsty/782058966567043072/whumpee-who-used-to-be-headstrong-stubborn-and?source=share

thank you so much (the prompt is in my to-write list, but I only write for canon characters in the fandoms I’m in, so I believe it’ll only make sense if people know the character/watch the source material, since the characters won’t be original characters or named as “whumpee”).

as for your question, personally, I don’t lock any of my fics despite knowing about the ai scrapping thing and I don’t plan on locking any of them, because, I don’t know—and this is just my personal opinion/feeling on the matter so don’t take it as a fact—I just think locking them isn’t really going to do anything except make them inaccessible for genuine readers without registered accounts who might otherwise have loved them. sure, locking fics to prevent ai from getting their robotic hands on your works may help to some degree, but I mean realistically I believe anything we post online can be used as some sort of data that’ll eventually help train ai, and there’s really no way to completely prevent your works from being used in some way (not in an outright plagiarism way, not in a way that your entire work from start to finish was copied and reuploaded somewhere else, but in way that bits and pieces were used to help ai work from) unless you stop posting anything online altogether. and I’m not trying to engage in or stir some fearmongering shit by saying this. it’s just… how it is, in my opinion. I still write and post my fics online, and I don’t lock any of them.

of course, you are free to disagree. you’re free to have your own view. you’re free to lock your works if that’s what you’re most comfortable with, I can’t tell you “you should unlock the fic” or “you should not unlock the fic” because at the end of the day I believe you should be making the choice you’re most comfortable with, whether it be keeping your fic locked or unlocking it. just do what you’re most comfortable with.

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Forgive me if I seem stupid, but what exactly is a whump? I have been seeing it on Tumblr, so I thought I would ask someone who potentially knows what it is. Thank you for your time and I hope you have a good rest of your day!

I've explained it here <3

not stupid at all!! most people I know who aren’t on tumblr have no idea what whump is, so I believe it’s only known within fandom space. if you have any further questions, feel free to ask 💕

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I don't know who to ask, but you seem reputable so here's my dumb question :)

should I write what genre my friends are writing?

all my friends (in real life!) write whump. I write fluff. they all spend time together talking about the next thing they're going to write, asking each other how they should torture their characters, how much of a certain drug kills a person, etc., meanwhile I'm at the other end of the lunch table planning out how to realistically make the enemies to lovers pairing paint each other's nails and have a nice interaction.

idk.

salutations, another anon

I really think this is something only you can decide, anon. you can write whatever you want.

maybe you can give whump a try and see if you have fun (also you can have whump and fluff together in the same story)

maybe you can ask yourself if whump is your thing too. if it is, then awesome. but if whump is not your thing, maybe you can then ask yourself if writing it just so you can chat with your friends about it really gives you the same joy as writing it because you love writing it does.

this question is something no one else can answer but you.

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Do you think fanfic has become clique-y. I mean that in the sense of people only kudos and comment when it suits them or on a fic that's written by one of their popular fandom friends or who fandom decides is a popular writer that all their followers need to read. I just get the feeling that it's only certain stories that are wanted from certain fic writers which is why they seem to be more popular and the rest gets ignored especially if you aren't in the fandom circle of the popular girls.

Lately I've been thinking that fic kudos, comments and hits are just a fandom popularity contest that doesn't mean your fic is bad. I've read bad ones and wondered why it's got so much kudos/hits/comments and great ones that have very little kudos/comments. Recently I read a bad one and it got a load of kudos and comments all because that trope is popular. Also I think if you aren't in the popular circle of fandom then your fics get ignored with very little kudos and no comments.

Just wondered what your thoughts on it were because I'm at the point where I feel like I should stop writing to completely or just not sharing anything anymore and keeping my writing to myself.

I’m afraid I don’t have any strong opinions about this because it seems to be an issue within specific fandoms and not an entire fanfic space? because I don’t experience anything like this in the fandoms I’m in. either that or I just don’t care enough to notice how many hits/kudos/comments a work has and if it’s “enough” compared to others.

however, while I do encourage people to give kudos and comment on works they like, I also don’t like the idea of guilt tripping anybody into leaving comments or giving kudos. because, as much as I know how loved kudos and comments are as an author, I also know people can just read fanfics for fun. if they don’t have enough energy to leave comments, if they’re only comfortable leaving comments on works whose authors they know or are friends with, or if they’re not comfortable having their username attached to a fic by leaving kudos for whatever reason, they should be allowed that without being shamed. and I as an author should write for me, not for validation from strangers.

fanfic, in my opinion, should be about the joy of getting to write and read.

yes, kudos and comments are super awesome, but you lose that joy of writing and reading the second you write mainly for kudos and comments as an author or read mainly because you feel like you then have to say something nice to the author as a reader. because that feels more like a job — a task — and less like something we do out of love for fun, something that should be our escape when things irl are hard.

so as an author, I’ll always encourage readers to give kudos, leave comments, but they don’t have to if they don’t want to. I’m not gonna demand reasons from people who don’t kudos or comments, or why they comment on others’ works and not mine. that’s not what fanfic is about.

fanfic is just a fun little thing. anybody can read whatever they want. anybody can write whatever they want. anybody can give kudos/comments — or not give kudos/comments — on any works they want (as long as they’re not being a jerk, of course).

what you’re feeling is valid. though I’d like to ask if you write because writing is something that brings you joy, or because you’re looking for kudos and comments — because if it’s the latter then, with all respect, I’m afraid you’re only going to be exhausted constantly trying to chase validation from strangers.

as an author and a reader, I’m not gonna compare any works (be it my own or someone else’s) to others, because getting to write what I love and read what I love is enough.