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Reblog if you're a writer who re-reads their own work for funsies.

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A lot of writing advice says ‘throw the reader into the action’ and I respect where that’s coming from, but personally I kind of love an elaborate and unnecessary-to-the-plot framing device.

The credits before the grainy movie or long, dramatic anime opening; an endlessly looping videogame title screen; some hype man at the beginning of a renaissance play purely there to let the crowd know shit’s about to get real.

The following pages are transcribed from papers found in a cave thought unreachable by humans, and written in an ink whose chemical composition could not be determined. Something howls in the forest and the stranger at your campfire looks up from under the brim of their hat and strums their guitar to begin the Ballad of Howlin’ Joe. Reader, the tale you are about to read is entirely made up and every character fictitious, but each and every word of it is true.

Once upon a time! It was a dark and stormy night! Atmosphere IS story and you don’t have to cut out every moment of it to serve constant forward action. Give me a trope with absolute sincerity that sets a MOOD and gets me in the zone. I have a huge reverent soft spot for an opening that feels like beginning the ancient and intrinsically familiar ritual of storytelling, a ritual that spans the world and predates written text, endlessly iterating and evolving. Are you sitting comfortably? Let’s begin.

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i write for myself not for comments but dear god getting comments does so remind me of the joy of writing and sharing something

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Happy Birthday, Sherlock Holmes!

As we celebrate the great detective, we are excited to announce the dates for Homumiko Week 2025. More info coming soon!

お誕生日おめでとう、シャーロックホームズ！ 大探偵のために祝うついでに、ホムミコウィーク2025の日にちを知らせ致します。まもなくもっと細かい情報や予定などにご期待してください。

셜록 홈즈 생일 축하합니다! 대탐정을 축하드리며 호무미코 위크 2025 날짜를 알려 드리겠습니다. 더 상세한 정보를 기대해

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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If anyone, at all, can match even a 10th of my donation, I'd consider it a massive christmas gift.

Please, help my friend Mohammed. His family is cold, and hungry.

It would mean a great deal to me.

You can find his fundraiser here,

And you can see that it's been vetted by 90-Ghost here.

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u can't just tell me two characters love each other based on simply Being In Proximity while plot shit happens. where are the Character-Specific Moments. where is the Spice. why can't u build a romance arc INTO the plot!! I'm sick to death of it these nice couples deserve better than theyre getting

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There is no way of accidentally doing a nazi salute twice in a row while the entire world is watching. This man needs to be killed

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someone I follow on the bird app just announced they’re starting a very exclusive private fic server because they and a bunch of other people want to talk about how much they love the fics they’re reading, and as an author can I just say that a really great place to talk about a fic you love is in the comments for that fic

I understand that people are trying to create safe spaces, but as the number of comments that I get on my fics dwindles with each passing year, knowing these spaces exist where my fics are being discussed, places that I am excluded from, makes me want to write fic LESS

I mean I guess who cares, right, because if I stop writing, there’s 10,000 other people that will continue…but if you participate in a fic “book club” server and you say nice things there about a fic you loved, maybe copy and paste that into a comment on AO3?

the only thing fanfic writers are asking for in return for hours of hard work is attention. please don’t rob us of the one thing that we hope for when we hit “post”

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hey don't cry. 7,401 species of frog in the world, ok?

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Now they killed my dear friend my childhood friend I'm crying now

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writing is so fun

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The ceasefire agreement was reached and joy is floating among the Palestinian people

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the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.

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i wish the best for my blorbo, but i also need that guy bruised, battered, bloody, and absolutely miserable. for his sake.

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For aro/ace writers:

- you don't have to write sex scenes. Tolkien didn't

- you don't have to write romance. Lewis didn't

- you can write very close friendships that have nothing romantic nor sexual in them. Scott Lynch did

- you can write sexual relationships that don't involve romance. Sapkowski did

- you can write romantic relationships that don't involve sex. Pratchett and Gaiman did

Don't let anyone tell you that some kinds of relationships are impossible or that a story must contain some themes. It's your story, write it the way you want