#Also scene outlines too! If ur not sure how ur fic is going make urself a scene list starting from opener plus the meats and then the endin
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unholyplumpprincess Ā· 1 year ago
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what would be your best tips on getting into writing without being demotivated, while also writing for yourself? I always have the issue where even if I want to write something, I shape it and mould it into what I think others would like, so I lose passion and canā€™t bare to look at it again. considering how youā€™ve been writing for years now, I was wondering if you had any advice :)
Oh boy. So, I am not gonna sugar coat it: It is incredibly easy to get demotivated, depending on how you are as a person! For me, I need praise, feedback, comments, etc to really thrive! Reblogs and retweets are all well and fine, but it's comments and fun tags that really keep me wanting to write! (This strands for a lot of creatives as well and why commenting is encouraged too as a whole, but jic!)
That being said, despite that, I absolutely Love writing and showing off my unique writing + skill set of ripping apart characters under a microscope!
That all laid out: You say that you switch it to something Others would like instead, and I so get that! I used to change my writing so it wasn't as descriptive or otherwise bc I'd try and mimic someone else's writing style- which could be due to my autism, trying to mask and feel 'normal'!
(Oop this got long so gonna put it under a read more :D)
So for you: Why do you mold it into something you THINK and ASSUME others would like? Has someone told you otherwise? How many people? Or is it just that lil guy in ur brain whispering the 'what if's and preventing you from doing something you love?
What motivates you to begin with? What can you do to challenge that voice in ur brain? Asking yourself these questions and answering honestly can help a ton and help you adapt and figure out where your comfort areas are and where you can challenge yourself!
At the end of the day: You're writing for yourself, and there are Plenty of people out there who are looking for that exact thing you're writing. You'll make your day finishing it and being able to read back on it way down the line, and you'll make someone else happy!
But like I said in the beginning too, I'm not gonna lie, I finally got demotivated! I used to write a ton for Apex, over 100+ fics, and hardly got any feedback or comments and then another thing happened that was big (part of a zine where the artists were featured on Respawn but nobody talked abt the writers with it/the artists didn't stick up for us :/) that just completely Poofed me into not wanting to write, period!
So let's analyze that again because hey, I've written one or two things since then and am currently working on another: I found what I needed to adapt and shift my demotivation! I need praise/feedback, not a problem, now I have a beta reader (my beloved spouse and number one fan) who excitedly gives me praise and feedback whenever I send updates!
So! To summarize: Ask yourself the important questions of what motivates you, how can you challenge that horrible feeling of hiding your uniqueness, and what can you do to break that demotivativation when it strikes? Also, what drives you and how can you shift your perspective to encompass that and include things or someone that makes you happy?
At the end of the day you are writing for your present self, your past self, and future self, and it just so happens that other people share the same interest as you and that's a bonus!!!!
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carbootsoul Ā· 4 years ago
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i was tagged by @katarahairloopies!!! thank u :mwah:
name:Ā leo! @/zeitgeistofnow on ao3,Ā @lazypigeon & @timetohope on here, altho iā€™m considering uh switching back to not having an art blog :/ i have to think abt it.
fandom(s):Ā ace attorney is my main one rn bc iā€™m replaying the games with a friend of mine and itā€™s reminding me how invested i am in the characters!! a lot of my recent fic is atla stuff, altho iā€™ve been distancing myself from the fandom bc iā€™ve kinda exhausted my interest in it. finally iā€™ve been reading a lot of mp100 fic but i donā€™t think iā€™ll ever write for it. i just love how dumb all the characters r (with the dubious exception of ritsu)
where you post:Ā ao3!! tbh i always get suprised when people say they write/read fic on any other platform like i havenā€™t messed around w wattpad or ff.net since middle school... catch up........
most popular oneshot:Ā going just by ā€œone chapterā€ as the definition of a oneshot, the firestarters, bc itā€™s fluffy and modern au :) i wouldnā€™t necessarily call it a oneshot tho bc to me a oneshot shows like, one scene? so like by my definition and your sweet sweet sun makes me crazy (i wanna lay you down and see how you amaze me is my most popular!! (also @ kit u thought UR fic titles were unnecessarily long??? iā€™ve hit the ao3 LIMIT for characters in titles. itā€™s about the aesthetic
most popular multichapter fic:Ā sdkjflakjlkj itā€™s two crowned kings; and one that stood alone, which is a w359 fic i wrote back in late 2017. itā€™s literally the last fic i havenā€™t orphaned from when i actually wrote podcast fic (i have 4 other podcast fics but they were all borne out of nostalgia and written after i stopped participating in the fandom). i rewrote all but the last chapter? the last two? about a year ago and i fucked up halfway through so like chapter 6 and 7 are repeated and thereā€™s something missing but iā€™m too lazy to fix it. no oneā€™s going to read it now anyway :) it WAS the top minlace fic for a little while tho which i take great pride in.
favorite story youā€™ve written so far:Ā oh thatā€™s a hard question akfsldkfj i honestly like most of them!! and i write a LOT so thereā€™s a lot to choose from. tonight, we are youngĀ is def one of my favorites- it was fun to write and i got to explore the ways zuko and yue r similar, which i LOVE to do outside of a zukka/yukka view. you can lean on my arm as you break my heartĀ Ā is one that iā€™m really proud of? the wholeĀ ā€œcooking as an expression of batoā€™s loveā€ is definitely some of my favorites. a lot of my ace attorney fics would be categoried as my favorites if i hadnā€™t improved, too, if that makes sense. like theyā€™re no long my favorites because i can see where my writing is shitty and it bothers me, but if i had written them a month ago theyā€™d be my favorite.
fic you were nervous to post:Ā figures 1-5: killing godsĀ def!! itā€™s a lot more purple-prose-y than most of my fics and it was also written before iā€™d kinda like emersed myself in the atla fandom so i didnā€™t have as good a grasp on the general understanding of zukoā€™s character as i do now. tbh itā€™s one iā€™m rly happy w tho!! i have a few people leave really nice comments on it and rereading them makes me really happy. also it was the start of me hating the position of fire lord and being at least passively anti-it in my fics.
how you choose your titles: theyā€™re almost all song lyrics!! only 14 of my 50 words ARENā€™T song lyrics and about half of those are from before i started writing ace attorney fic lol. sometimes i go into a fic with a song in mind for the vibes and then i usually go with lyrics from that (like in ā€˜cuz weā€™re the greatest /theyā€™ll hang us in the louvre), but otherwise i usually pick an artist iā€™ve been listening to and go through their songs until i find a lyric that fits. sometimes the lyric doesnā€™t even really fit the fic and i just chose it at random or because i searching up the wordĀ ā€œflyā€ in my spotify library or whatever. honestly i like coming up with titles? i know a lot of fic writers hate it but being able to just use song lyrics is v soothing for me and while i know that most people wonā€™t search out a song just bc itā€™s a fic title like.. seeing that the title of a fic is a hozier lyric does affect how i read it and i kinda like that.
do you outline?Ā i outline my long form/multichaptered fics with varying strictness. usually anything over ~8k will have some kind of outline. sometimes i go into it with every single scene planned out, sometimes itā€™s just notes on the side of the google doc that sayĀ ā€œit's about MORE family. about how it's not betraying your existing family to find moreā€ andĀ ā€œscenes i want to include: [...]ā€ andĀ ā€œvampires... ngl kinda hot.ā€ iā€™m trying to outline super strictly less bc iā€™ve found itā€™s less fun? but i do try to keep a plot arc in mind. since most of my fics are more character-driven than plot-driven, that usually just means keeping track of what character development i want to happen or what is motiviating the characters.Ā 
complete:Ā um everything posted on ao3 i guess. also the MULTITUDE of orphaned fics out there asksfjldkj i always clickĀ ā€˜leave my pseud onā€™ so if u look up my username you see all of my fics and then a. lot of other ones.
in progress: - a fic titledĀ ā€˜dad phoenixā€™ that is actually just a no DL-6Ā au with defense attorney miles edgeworth and single dad bartender phoenix where neither of them want to date for A While but phoenix gets wrapped up in one of milesā€™s cases. itā€™s about family. itā€™s about writing teenagers. itā€™s about the background franmaya which is ALWAYS what iā€™m here for in wrightworth fics - a franmaya werewolf/vampire au because iā€™m ~gay~ and love rivals to lovers and also franziska and maya both being angry their older brothers r dating each other. - my secret santa fic!! which i canā€™t talk about much but it does feature toph and zuko and also piandao and jeong jeong???? idk where they came from but they are Part Of The Fic Now also i forgot iroh existed for half the fic and wrote piandao as zukoā€™s father figure and now iā€™m in too deep. - a 5+1 bakoda fic (maybe a bato/hakoda/kay fic??? i need to decide. thatā€™s part of why this fic is still incomplete bc i canā€™t decide which relationship dynamic i prefer) thatā€™s 5 times bato said he loves hakoda and one time hakoda said it back. possibly i have already written him saying i love u back and i need to change the title a little. - retail au klapollo where klavier works at an overpriced boutique and apollo comes in to buy earrings for nahyutaā€™s birthday. klavier gives him a punch card (one that the store doesnā€™t actually offer anymore as a bid to get apollo to come back)Ā and all of apolloā€™s family come in to use the punch card and also give klavier variations on the shovel talk/find out if heā€™s actually into apollo. - a LOT of atla fics that i donā€™t think iā€™ll ever finish :(
coming soon/not yet started:Ā  - i want to write some blackmadhi bc theyā€™re.. cute..... and itā€™s a good excuse to also write athena and i love her - my stuff for yueki week!!! i have NOT prepped enough but hopefully iā€™ll remember in time! i wrote the prompts in a way that kinda set up stuff iā€™ve already wanted to write (donā€™t look at me lol) so hopefully iā€™ll get at least two or three fics finished in time. - i want to rewrite the wrightworth fic i have about them not getting married bc it was interesting and i like what i wrote about but i think i could have written it better and made it more interesting. rewriting fics is hard tho bc iā€™m never sure if it makes sense to just edit in the new work or to repost it? and then if u repost it do u delete the old one? conflicting so i might just not
do you accept prompts?Ā totally!!! a disclaimer tho iā€™m not super into writing atla stuff anymore (most of the atla stuff iā€™m still writing isĀ  something i made a commitment to finish) so if your prompt is an atla one i probably wonā€™t do it :/ basically anything else is fair game tho!! podcasts/aa/sa/uh i donā€™t remember anything else but like if you search a fandom on my blog and come up with more than two posts about it chances r iā€™d be happy to write fic for it!
upcoming work that youā€™re most excited about:Ā oh huh i mean probably the no dl-6 au!!! itā€™s the longest ace attorney fic iā€™ve written already and since itā€™s wrightworth itā€™ll get more attention than any franmaya fic i write. my standards r so high now tho after getting to much feedback from atla fans... love u all... obviously i have no choice but to pressure my atla mutuals into playing ace attorney. pls ask abt it bc i WIll Give You A Sales Pitch about why youā€™d like it in relation to atla
tagging: iā€™m not rly tagging anyone!!! @deadflora if you still consider urself a fic writer also consider urself tagged! also any of my other mutuals who write fic i just canā€™t think of anyone rn
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