#foregoing the bonus question not because I don't love extra enrichment but because I feel 12 is important to end on

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Fic writer asks!

2, 10, and 12.

(You can do one of your choosing as a fun bonus, but no pressure!)

Hello nonny! Thanks for dropping by!

2. Do you plan each chapter or write as you go?

It's a mostly healthy mixture of both, if I'm honest! I plan for the major plot-points, of course. But I don't always get there the way I expect. (I gotta say, sometimes I'm pretty darn glad y'all can't see my drafts. It's a mess.)

10. Cltr + "blinks" on your WIP & copy paste the first sentence/paragraph that comes up

There was nothing in my main document, surprisingly! So here's something from the OC storyline instead.

"Canvas blinks in surprise that Sinker is being blasé about it; the sergeant interprets the action as confusion."

[Answer 12 got long so I'm hiding it under the read-more.]

12. how does receiving or not receiving feedback/support impact you?

When I don't receive feedback or support on something I poured hours, days, even weeks (and oftentimes months!) of my time into writing, I feel like I've wasted my focus, my energy and my time that I could have put into other passions of mine. Unfortunately, I'm not as fast of a writer as I would like to be sometimes.

When interaction is a big, fat goose egg on what I write (outside of the OC storyline), I'm even slower. It makes me really upset, too.

But perhaps the most upsetting thing of all can be when another person requests, and then never says a single, simple word of thanks for the story made for them. Many, many fanfic writers agree that it is downright disrespectful and extremely entitled to ask that someone take time out their busy lives to cater a story to your tastes and then maybe get a "like" and little else in return.

We're not out here demanding your firstborn in return for the story you requested, or anything absurd like that. If you request something, please throw a comment and/or reblog our way, too, because those go a long, long way.

If you share what you commissioned or bought from the shops of your favorite fan artists, why the hell wouldn't you share what you requested from a fanfic writer? It's really not any different. 🤷

And on a similar note, it plain ol' sucks when you have someone tell you they "love your work" only to have your notifications tell you

.....

Anyways.

But I'll let you in on a not-so-secret secret: Interaction and support for your humble fan artist and/or authors out there means the fucking world to us. More than some of us could ever hope to explain.

It also makes fingers + brain go BRRRRRR!!!