#ficwriter things

[blackwood4stucky]

you tell me I can't and then I just turn around and do it. good thing @ficwip has a spitefest :D

"You can't ship that!"

lol what are you gonna do, climb inside my mind and shut off the imagination switch?

[braceletofteeth]

depicted: the calmest most patient fandom out there

[felixravinstills]

abyssal. how does one finish writing. I’m so slowwwe but I’m determined to finish something so I can tell myself that I still can even if it’s bad.

slowly but surely, i have gotten addicted to finishing things, but here's somethings I like to keep in mind when that isn't enough:

you want this thing to exist. there's a reason that you started in the first place and try to keep in mind that probably no one but you will be able to finish this thing the way you want it (or the closest approximation to how you want it, because we seldom even get there with our own works)

if that fails, it is time to become a hater. you've probably already started hating your fic since I always do at some point during editing. now, it is time to turn that energy elsewhere. you've got to remember the worst book/whatever that you've ever read in your life. maybe you can even pull up a passage of some dogshit writing, and go "well, if that got published, i'm probably good. my thing is deserves to be out there too!"

then, you're back at my first point, except you're fueled by spite.

there's also the obligatory "it doesn't have to be perfect" spiel but i feel like you probably get that with your PhD enough already

I do think "it doesn't have to be good, it just has to be finished" and "i want this to exist (spiteful)" can take you far in the world. Honestly, even the first "I want this to exist" thing is spiteful if you're me...

Anyway, this is the best finishing things advice that I can offer! I hope it's kind of helpful? or that you get a wave of inspiration!

[honey-lets-fucking-run]

Captain Larsen when shoved into a tuxedo against his will

[katyspersonal]

:(

[mifithemuffin]

oh author who writes fucked up and violently uncomfortable fics for character exploration purposes I hold you so gently

[bi-moonlight]

god i love fandoms and especially here on tumblr

how we wait and suffer through anticipation together, every update you watch it and then rush here to post, like and reblog and scream in tags all together and feel the love and shared obsession in a dash full of the same picture/video/gif , counting down the time together, sharing theories and thoughts , figuring out the time and feeling the unity through the comments in tags about time and understanding that all over the world in different countries and time zones we all are united in this love, and then the time comes the content drops and the liveblogging with shared sentiments, emotions, so many different and similar thoughts, or the dash goes silent for a few hours and then it comes alive as we all come here to share our impressions and feelings and thoughts and opinions, such a sense of community and unity and joy, celebrating what we love and each other together through gifs and edits and fics and all kinds of posts , reblogging to gush in the tags knowing that we all are enjoying this, and in a way we create this space where u get to experience the content over and over again through gifs and it's familiar in a comforting way, where u get to experience a bunch of different versions of the story of the blorbos , where u get to feel like and be a part of something bigger than u - a whole community, i think it's beautiful and poetic, a safe heaven, and the coolest thing is that it applies to any fandom and they are intersecting and associating with each other and u end up in a tangled web with ur mutuals and other folks and it's so cozy and wonderful

[anneangel]

Not wanting to delegitimize the work of the original authors, after all 'll always be grateful to them for giving me incredible stories and characters. But I confess that simply love the vastness of multiple ideas, diversity and different ways of thinking (and rethinking) and draw (and redesign) that Headcanons, FanFictions e Fanarts offer to me.

[extraclwnporeal]

shoutout to all the love histories happening outside the romance genre. To loving in the apocalypse, through zombies and war and the greater mission. This is the end of humanity but flowers will always grow and the sun is still gonna set and then rise again and by God I'm gonna watch it with you until our time comes. To loving in a tragedy, knowing the things are gonna ruin in the end and still loving to such an extent I'm able to ease your pain. Because maybe we're doomed and there was never hope but there was love and it mattered. To loving in comedy so I'm able to see your smile. Doing every mundane task by your side and when I do my silly dance while washing the dishes I get to hear the sound of your laugh. To loving in horror so the monstrous hands tearing me apart feels like nothing compared to the sweet touch of my lover's fingers. The beasts are everywhere and I still worry about your safety even more than mine. Just telling a history, knowing that there is love in each and every line.

[reznorty3]

"I don't identify with anyone anymore, and that's the whole point of films: that you learn about yourself through them. I have nothing left to learn."

L, Those... ch 29

[saebaragi]

i have so many great ideas for fics. would love to actually write them some day

[bookwormstarwarsfan]

Exactly!!!

I have full, complex, multichapters AUs in my head, I would even direct a film out of them, but I can't write.

Not just because I have a terrible literal style in my language and especially in English, but I literally can't write lol. It's a misery to word every sentence even if it's something for fun, and if it's some school essay, it's a long crying and anxiety.

But in my head they are like really cool though.

Once...

Once...

Is it not enough to intensely daydream a fanfic in painful, emotional and visual detail constantly for over a week? Must I also convert it to doc/word format as well?

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

one reason i'm grateful a) to have been getting into treating my meta as An Art Form as much as fanfic/art/etc, and b) that there's an import function for that on AO3, is that i write very little prose these days, and Actually Having Substantial Things to Post helps me get past the stumbling block of 'well there's nothing much worth going to the trouble for anyway, is there' to the 'alright let's address all the other baggage that makes using AO3 so emotionally fraught for you bud' step (staircase.)

[felixravinstills]

I love that the filters on my Ao3 profile are in genuine disbelief about how much I've written about Felix Ravinstill.

The first two photos on the left show Ao3 claiming that I have 4 fics tagged with Coriolanus Snow but only 3 tagged with Felix Ravinstill, but then wouldn't you know it? Once you filter to see all my Felix fics, you'll find that I have 4 tagged with him.

Also Ao3 currently hasn't acknowledged the President Ravinstill & Volumnia Gaul tag as a common tag, but it was acknowledged the Festus Creed/Felix Ravinstill/Original Female Character(s) tag and the President Ravinstill & Felix Ravinstill tag as common. This is very funny for me as the only author currently in those tags.

Apparently the toxic besties don't deserve rights. (Also note that being designated a common tag doesn't mean it's actually commonly used. It's just the default version of a tag rather than synonymous with the common tag. I still find it funny.)

[sophaeros]

stumbles upright. ohhhhhhwait is that why imposing a strict deadline on myself to finish editing this fic didnt work. because i am so bad with project deadlines they always just make me too stressed out to even look at the project in question. did i just academic stress myself into being unable to even open my fic doc.Ok .

[jugulate]

I just forgot the phrase "Like a kid on Christmas morning." And now I need to go lie down and think about why I want to be a writer.