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[gargy1975]

I am writing for Sue.... You Sue...I write for you Sue.. Only you Sue! 💯🇺🇲🏳️‍🌈🍷

RE: Paraphrase Emily Dickson... from Dicksons'... Originally on Apple+

Some idiot: "Why are you reading your own fic, that's shallow and stupid"

All fanfic writers and writers everywhere: "Who the fuck do you think I wrote it for?!"

[thatsbelievable]

[writerawoke]

World Building

It is important for you to understand how your fantasy world runs. It would make things a whole lot easier to write a novel if you understand how things work in this world. I would recommend planning out some information before you start your writing journey. I have briefly discussed some other helpful tips for writing a fantasy book before too! 1. Think about the currency/currencies in your world, do you want it to use coins or something different? Just like the world we live in, you cannot travel to a place that doesn't need some aspect of currency, whether it is dollars, euros or something else. A very simple idea could be using buttons for a currency.

2. What are the jobs and their purposes? How respected are they in society?

3. This links to number 2, but what is the agriculture and crop growing like? How needed are the farmers? Do plants grow via magic, photosynthesis or something else?

4. How does the world work through trading, communication, travel and combat?

5. How big are the villages, cities and locations in your world?

6. Who are the Gods/deities in your world and how did they create the world. Are there any in particular who are of importance? Why, why not?

7. What could be some of the stories in your world that have been told and passed down for generations? Are they myths, truths or does no one know?

8. What is the education system like?

9. Plan your magic system! For example, it could be generated through energy, a magic crystal, a gift from a God, who may have gifted something to the living beings in order to help them exist in some way.

10. Think about the names of your locations, if needed I can do a separate post dedicated to naming a place.

11. Impacts of characters. Why is your character good for the world/bad for the world? Are they even necessary to the plot, if not, think about if they even need to be written about.

12. How is their food prepared and made?

13. What are the politics like through voting systems and laws etc? Who are the people in charge?

[pvposeur]

Let's not forget that All Characters Are Original Characters. Meaning that if a manga writer's Published OCs can be a Mary Sue then a fan's Unpublished OCs can be a Mary Sue, too. And so what if your character is unpolished? Most characters are when they start out. So keep that in mind the next time you're shitting on someone's OC that your favorite character was, at one point, also not that well thought out from the get-go.

Let people have fun with their comfort characters. Let people be stupid with their comfort characters. Let people make mistakes with their comfort characters. Let people be cringe with their comfort characters. Let. People. Have. Fun.

I am actually so serious I think it really messes with a childs creativity and joy to tell them to never make a mary sue OC. Like that unbridaled form of joy where you make a self insert OC who super cool and everyone loves them and they have every superpower in the world SHOULD be something a kid makes, it nourishes their ability to create things for fun and not be stifled by "oh but what if my character is too overpowered and cringey...". whatever

[shatterred-unvoiced-thoughts]

[dreamspiritsblog]

"Art is not beauty, art is seeing things differently."

— Virginia Woolf

[thearchmanofgreenfield]

Some MORE out of context Writer's discord stuff! :D

tagline for community members: @harleyacoincidence, @autism-purgatory, @rivenantiqnerd, @sm-writes-chaos, @hellothere2009, @drvonchickenstein

[possessellamawritesandsleeps]

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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

[xoxorory]

I will always hate people that make Damian whiter and starfire with pin straight hair

[tamara-kama]

Clive Barker speaking on JKR

“There’s a lot of pain amongst the transgender people that I know,” Barker stated. “They have a lot of issues in the world as it is, without a famous author opining on the subject. It just seems redundant. It just seems unkind.”

Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, “It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.”

“I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”

[pvposeur]

I am going to be 100% real with you guys for a second.

If you are too busy to write fanfics to the point of AI doing it for you, then you are too busy to read fanfics.

If you are too uncreative write fanfics to the point of AI creating them for you, then you do not have the right to give your two cents on other people's fanfics.

If you are too lazy to write your own fanfics to the point of AI doing it for you, then you are too lazy to scroll down on Tumblr or AO3 or FFN.Net to read other people's fanfics.

Using AI to create your works is an insult to the entire Creative Writing and Art Community. Do you think Stephen King used AI to write The Dark Tower series or IT? No. Do you think Hayao Miyazaki allows everyone at Studio Ghibli to use AI to create his god-like anime films like Kiki's Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke? No.

With that being said, if you are pro-AI then, by all means, hardblock me. Because this writer, blogger, and overall fan of many things is anti-AI. Reblog if you agree.

[sarnai4]

Pirate Psychology

Yes, you read that correctly and no, it's not a joke. In May of 2026, I plan to publish a book about pirates and psychology. (I'm almost done writing it now :D. Will start chapter 19 tomorrow!) So, I wanted to use this post to talk about some of the therapies that get brought up. Just a few quick descriptions for each.

CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy) - Essentially, this is about recognizing which thoughts are harmful. You're thinking, "That person hates me. I should spit in their drink." Rather than that, you stop and go, "Why am I assuming that? I don't even know them. Let's think about this more and not act rashly." You change the thoughts to be more logical and then respond accordingly.

Psychoanalysis - I know this one gets some flack, but seriously, it makes sense to me. It's saying that everything has a root. You don't just wake up and go, "I can't do anything right :(" Something caused that. This has you find out what, confront it, then move forward. Treat the problem, not the symptom.

Humanism - This is the positive one. It's about helping people see all the good that they do and reach "self-actualization." You figure out what your ideal self is, then how you can make your actual self like that person. All about becoming the best version of yourself.

Music therapy - Here, you either play or listen to music. It helps with emotional expression when you don't really want to talk it out. You can describe how the music makes you feel or how you feel as you're playing.

Art therapy - This is similar to music therapy, but it substitutes art for music. Instead of saying you're sad, you can make some art and that art can be analyzed to help show what you're feeling.

Narrative therapy - Here's what I do with every story Here's another way to express yourself. You can write stories and use characters to work through your problems. It can be creative or actually based on your own life. It's up to you!

These are just some of my favorite therapies, so I'm hoping that my book can help spread the word about them. Plus, maybe someone will read it and if they're going through something, this can help. (You know, in between reading scenes about swashbuckling... :D)

[esuemmanuel]

Don't ask to be taught to love if you don't plan to stay.

No pidas que te enseñen a amar si no piensas quedarte.

[ak-harper-loves-fiction]

Save me

You’re not just a writer.

You’re a goddamn survivor of your own imagination.

You live with noise in your head that never shuts up until you bleed it onto the page, and even then, it whispers, “Make it better.”