#happy writer

[writingwife-83]

I let my AO3 comments build up for a few weeks like a terrible writer but seeing this one today definitely forced me to get back in there and respond. I’m incredibly grateful that ten years later I Told You So is still a fic that people are actually genuinely enjoying. 🥲💓

(Romanticblossom I’m not sure if your user name is the same on her but thanks again!)

[bengals-barnesbabe]

Damn now that ‘Players’ has gotten a seal of approval from basically all of my best friends, imma edit my heart out and get it to yall by the morning🥰😋

[zombie-eats-world]

This made me so happy guys. Like I know not everyone knows what to comment, they aren’t sure what to say. Well this is perfect!

[lustandrot]

Go find yourself a ... GOOD writing partner (or several.) Not just someone good. Someone brilliant. Someone who lights your muse on FIRE without it necessarily being provoked. Without question or doubt. Someone who GETS YOU as another creative being. When you find them -- you'll know it.

[toseehowthestoryends]

Best words your editor can say to you when you mention this is your longest book yet? "Sounds like you're threatening me with a good time."

[chicaotaku-fanfics]

These are the kind of comments that make me happy about posting my story.

Thank you for your kind words! 🥰

[starfayy]

Behold my christian fantasy multiverse trilogy

Eden Fables, big one, book, big book, Tolkien-esque fantasy, not writing it alone haha, best thing i ever wrote ever, its a BEEG series, big stronk

Reliquary of the Stars, amazing, beautiful, yes yes my most silly one, i love it, funky worldbuilding....tbf friend's helping brainstorm this one too

And Darthrima, PIRATES, OCEAN, MONSTERS, ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS, MAGIC SO MANY MAGIC WOOOOOO i have close to nothing abt it yet

[mochalottie]

Oh my days...you guys are going to like this next chapter so much.

The healing that's happening, the squealing I'm doing whilst I type just...

I pat myself on the back. New chapter will hopefully be up tomorrow, Imma disappear back into the depths of my own imagination now okay bye~

[unknownwritersblog]

Hello!

I found one of your fics while searching a tag (I think it was Edwin and Night Nurse? Which brought me to the courting one) and then promptly sat down and spent a whole afternoon reading through your whole collection

Absolutely fabulous job I am excited to read whatever you have cooking up next 👻��❤️

Thank you so much for reading :) I have several things I am working on, hopefully I get them done soon :)

[kate04us]

You know what makes me incredibly happy? When my mailbox is full of AO3 notifications because someone is currently working their way through old fic and is leaving kudos in their path. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[pieceofmind22]

It's been 2 years since I've written Bottled Up.

Thank you, Sally_94 for making me happy. 🥰

[graygiantess]

This is the best kind of kudos email to get and honestly makes me so happy! This is all one person who read one of my fics, liked it so much they clicked my profile because they wanted more, and then they wanted even more! 🥹

[emberfaye]

You know what?

I love you, fics that take months to update. I click on the newest chapter and have no memory of this place and get to go back some chapters and rediscover how much i love everything about this story.

I love you, fics that take years to update. I think of you fondly, and know your names, go search for you and see an update from this year and scream, diving in uncaring of any missed details (i will finish the update and read you in reverse because this is a treat you have bestowed)

I love you, fics that probably will never update again. Thank you for being a roman empire for my mind, thank you for teaching me about the ephemeral fandom experience, for inspiring a thousand million what if-s, for being a comfort read and a nostalgia read and a reread.

I love you fic writers, who jump into projects and stories with enthusiasm. I love you when you succeed in pumping out those chapters and that love doesn't go away when you stop.

I love you fic writers who post and then get in your own head and never feel confident enough to update, whether it's at all or whether it's just that one story.

I love you fic writers, who have a fandom or media hurt you to the point of abandoning or having a hard time with their WIPs.

I love you fic writers, who lose interest or have life changes or illness or bad memory. Thank you for being part of the fandom, a core part of the fandom. Thank you for the time spent in the fandom.

I love you, fic writers who try out something new and then stop. You're so valid.

I love you, WIP fics that may or may not ever get finished. Thank you for brightening my day in the way only you could have.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I am incredibly serious right now when I beg you all, please, and if you have Twitter or Tiktok or whatever to please spread the word: click on an author's profile on Ao3.

You want to know if an author has written more? Want to know if they're still writing? Want to see more from them? Want to know if they've written a trope or kink or sex scenario you enjoy?

Click on their name. And look at their profile.

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

"Would you ever do X?" "Please do Y!" I already did. Click on my name and look at my works.

Archive of our Own is a library. It's an archive. Not social media. It is your responsibility to fight back against the laziness that corporate algorithms have trained into you.

Click my author name. Just click it. Just click it.

Before you demand more, or ask if a writer will do XYZ, or wonder if the author still writing, or anything - click on their profile. Click on the author's profile.

I'm not trying to be mean or condescending or anything like that. I'm just exhausted. It's disheartening and frustrating to repeat myself ad nauseam, because someone couldn't take thirty seconds to do the tiniest bit of work to see if I've written lately, if I've written more for their ship, or scan my works to see if I've written what they're asking for. Please. Please. I'm begging.

Click the author's name, and explore before you ask.

[hypersis84]

Welp!! Back to the writing notebooks as well as the drawing board to work on both art and story of “Peace Keepers”©️

[lanwangjiismyreligion]

I checked my e-mails in the morning and there was a review for my book "Kleefee und Kaninchenritter" (Clover Fairy and Rabbit Knight). 8 Pages long and now I am a crying mess because the review started literally with "I don't like Fantasy" but it ended with "Buy this book immediatel!"

And now I don't know what I should do with myself.