#*ends up writing 200k*

[watchyourbuck]

Inspiration Saturday | Poisoner AU⚕️

Eddie Diaz is a highly skilled master poisoner. His shelves are adorned with Siren’s Tears, Belladonna, Arsenic, Aconite, and everything else he needs to kill humans and magical beings.

Evan Buckley is a trained detective with a double life. He works for an association that wants to unveil the secrets of the powerful sorcerers that rule the Kingdom, while being a Nymph himself.

Eddie is sent to poison Evan for turning over too many stones, some that could be detrimental for his Grove.

While on his mission, Eddie discovers Evan’s secret, and decides to stay hidden.

As the days go by, Eddie can’t help but to feel attracted to Evan’s aura, falling somehow in love with the man he was sent to kill.

The Leader of the Grove grows impatient, and decides to poison Evan himself.

Eddie must choose between saving the man he loves with an antidote only he can create, or being loyal to the men and women who saved him after his parents died.

˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

tagged by the lovely @disasterbuckdiaz 💗 tagging in return @lover-of-mine @wildlife4life @thewolvesof1998 @wikiangela @malewifediaz @spagheddiediaz @loserdiaz @buckleyobsessed @giddyupbuck @your-catfish-friend @cowboydiazes @evanbegins @honestlyeddie @smilingbuckley @prettyboybuckley @jamespearce9-1-1 @eddiebabygirldiaz @callmenewbie @hippolotamus @daffi-990 @theotherbuckley & @jeeyuns ✨✨

[laylajeffany]

Only thirteen days into the month and I'm already over 100k and nearly halfway through chapter ten. ~manifestations just work for me~ ...that said, I experienced a brand new, major story revelation that has been unfolding before me since chapter seven that I have just connected. I'm formally replotting a fair bit of this (and upcoming) chapter(s) as it is quite an unexpected, but fun/tragic new direction that has revealed itself as the new path we're on together.

[hrwinter]

Linkkkkkk

so truth be told, it’s a kim possible fic. it is also the best thing these two eyes have laid eyes upon in months. i saw the show 150 years ago but not enough to remember a whole one half of the ship. you would not call me a super fan or even a fan. it is just—the writing, the dialogue, the milf of it all, it is, just,—

magnetism by chaoticspaces

[bloodydeanwinchester]

wait how the hell did my “this will only be 20k” fic end up being close to 50k with 5 chapters left to write 😩

[shuruzy]

📙

[noecoded]

If you could have any Asmo/reader fic what would be the things you would want from it? like an ideal fic would contain what tropes or AUS or situations or whatever

uhmm anything wellwritten that characterizes asmo similar to the way i do ! i rlly like character exploration , both more serious stuff & just sillycute...anything where asmo is a little cunning and toxic and also gets railed into oblivion.anything where hes a vampire. ill write a tag essay about the specifics

[eldritchmochi]

Hi its the anon that keeps poking you about cs again! All of those ideas are great and just so the pain of fanfic often sort of being what would be a novel first draft by being episodic, but I feel like you could so weave in a tonne of this stuff past now anyway. Especially the cane leaning, im a cane user too and I totally get it, how my partner handles my cane is just.... it feels different to anyone else. Like they get to touch my body differently to anyone else and that applies to my cane too since that really sort of a part of my body??

the inherent eroticism of ur partner touching u(r cane) i should make a zine about this lmao

rn i am considering how much if any retouching i wanna do of the existing 260k of coping skills cos yeah, the struggle of fanfic essentially being the first draft of a novel. usually it doesnt get me too bad since a) i generally fully complete a fic before posting so i do have a chance to go back and adjust things here and there & 2) i really havent ever cared to redraft something in the more traditional sense and iii) i basically never write things over 100k let alone anything substantially over 100k

one of the options im considering would involve a fairly big overhaul where i pull out the individual arcs and flesh em out with additional scenes for better pacing, and then repost as a series with shorter individual fics (with the og in tact as is, just with a note). ive had several people tell me theyve balked at the length of this damned fic, especially since its barely half done plot wise for JUST this specific already plotted chunk of the whole shebang. it has quite possibly gotten a smiiiidge out of control lmao but its been a great learning experience and i am Determined to finish it

however, i am ALSO considering filing the serial numbers off this fic once its done. i absolutely plan on redrafting the whole thing with a bunch of developmental editing work so the end result would almost certainly be a very different form of the story from the fic as it is now. im still unsure of how much of the rework i have in my head i want to put on the internet as Coping Skills: The Fic tho. its really important to me that, whatever i end up doing, i keep this monster available on the internet as a fanfic cos i am well aware of how much it means to a lot of folks

at the same time though theres a lot of backend stuff i could build into the cs2.0 idea that would make writing the rest of the story a LOT easier, which would make dev edits and redrafting easier bc ill be starting with something that has more structure, etc

theres balance somewhere i just haven't found it yet, HOWEVER im absolutely gonna be stuck til i figure it out. im a plantser when it comes to plot, im more than happy to figure out the path to a fairly nebulous endgoal, but i struggle to write stuff if i dont have a good idea of the overall structure of how i tell the story, like pattern of pov shifts and theming, which definitely got a bit away from me the last like 80k lmao

[axreliono]

trying to add a scene into an old chap bc a specific plot thread has been bothering me for a while now but ITS SO HARD TO CHANGE SOMETHING THATS ALREADY PUBLISHED WITHOUT ENTIRELY REWRITING. my editing style is quite literally "if sucks, rewrite from scratch" which isnt useful rn. pain and suffering for ten thousand years

[orcelito]

There are more trigun fanfics than there were back in April

This is creating a problem for me

[thepandalion]

as someone who wrote and published both the actual process of writing is pretty similar, the main differences come in the way of like. publishing.

like sure you get editors who are professionals with degrees if you publish as a book but also like. the size and weight and color of pages. needing a cover design and blurbs for the back of it etc. a lot of publishing houses will take care of it for you (yknow. for more money) but if you know what you're doing you can do most of the actual work on your own?

then again I'm not a "professional" writer, of the genre that work for their publications and get paid regular wages to put words in a page - which is where a lot of bad writing happens, because you can't rush art. that's another reason why fanfics can be "better" than their professional counterparts - if I write a fanfic, and I get stuck mid-writing, I'm not gonna be fired for it (same for when you write and publish independently. I wrote exactly one book and it was mostly poetry and I didn't even do any marketing because that's actually one of the most expensive parts of publishing a book, at least so far as the local publishing scene is concerned)

like. it's a bit like video games, in the sense where you have indie developers change everyone's lives forever, or you can have a triple-a company make a game and it's popular enough to be sold on the Platform of the media (game stores&steam for games, much like bookstores or audiobooks or whatever with writing) but then everyone can agree it's nowhere near the level of dedication you get coding a product of art and love and passion by yourself

and games also have "editors"- both literal people on boards for the big game companies and like.. playtesters. people who make sure your game is a game. books have that too (I'm in a class that teaches editing books this semester and I lowkey hate it but also I happen to be really good at it which might and might not have to do with volunteering to beta read for my friends any time they write fanfic). and.. yeah. beta-read fanfic is a bit of that too. it's "why does he do that?" and "oh this is a good line" and "I think you need punctuation here but I could be wrong, what did you plan for this to mean, exactly?"

like. I write both books and fanfics and also like.. I use actual literary techniques I use in my book writing when I write fanfiction too- I have a character in a fanfic who is a siren, and I plan to have two different "routes" for the fic. in one of them, he speaks, thereby dooming his shipmates. in the other, any time he would have dialogue, I go around it with "he claimed we cannot do that" and the like, rather than direct quoting of the character, and in that universe everyone survives. that's something I learned in a professional writing class and I use it in fanfiction and I'm pretty sure that unless I specifically mention, in the notes of that fic, that that was an intentional artistic choice, nobody would notice. but that's fine, because I write this for my own benefit.

also, kinda lost the point I wanted to make with that example running a bit long, but like. as a person who both writes and edits, both of whom I do on both professional and fanfic levels, the difference is really not about that at all?

(I sit in class and argue about what word describes baby talking an adult, while the original chapter we're translating is in a language neither me nor the other student know, but I definitely side with our teacher who thinks explaining what you mean in a third language does nothing for editing a translation. that's a class about professional editing for translated literary works. the teacher occasionally remarks that my way of thinking and explaining reminds him a lot of the near-mythological editor he used to work with, and I think about how that might be because literary-editing is something I learned from my dad, who is also a professional editor, and who has also met your near-mythological editor before.

I also, at other times, sit my beloved friend on a call and we talk about fanfics they write and I don't notice until after the call ends that the way I talk when we have those fanfic-editing sessions is more similar to my dad with the independent authors he edits and publishes books with, rather than how I sound just talking fandom with my friends)

I’d like everyone to see this

{Credit to amalasrosa on Twitter}

[pinkseas]

starting editing this scene when it was 2k words at Most and now i am at. 4.2k ^_^ world so beautiful

[iridescentis]

i am so bad at predicting word counts i said chapter 19 would be 3k and yet a basic first draft of the intro is 1.3k where did that come from

[crescentmoonrider]

A viper-lizard's tales, chapter 209 "Ruined day dreaming"

in which Azula thinks about potential futures

read on ffn

read on ao3

[shiroselia]

The fact I'm so close to 200k that I'm starting to think I might have to prepare to maybe hit 300k...

The fact I'm actually seeing this stupid on a whim project through. I might have a lot of problems.

[a-very-fond-farewell]

ok the vibe is: I’m just a silly little guy in a dreadful little world. time to go back to my roots (*eats croutons straight from the bag*)

[ranger-kellyn]

when ur fic just keeps getting bigger and bigger and u just don't even know how to organize it at this point