#that advice is annoying and bad but ultimately I'm going to write on despite being bored so idc

[petiolata]

At some point today i need to wake my brain up and get some writing done 😴

Im just not rly excited/interested in this next upcoming scene even a little so it's hard. I know it's popular writing advice nowadays to go "If writing the scene bores you, it'll be boring for your readers! 😃"

Like b*itch I have anhedonia for months at a time 🙄 everything bores me, what am I supposed to not write for half the year?

[kidflashimpulse]

Hey! I wanted to ask this anonymously first before I embarrassed myself but I just started my first young justice blog and I really need some help coming up with fic ideas, with writing, with a lot of stuff I'm a complete mess, an I was wondering if it's not much trouble, could I get some help?

Hey :)) omg that’s so exciting! looking forward to checking out ur blog :D just saying in advance to hopefully squash any worries and to scale expectations, i’m not the best person with communication and can take a while to respond to messages (also sorry bout the slight delay with answering this one, i do hope u see it i can’t remember if anon questions notifies the sender 😭). I cant guarantee being the most helpful person either but i’d be happy to try to help where/if i can :)

in terms of general advice for fics/writing which i think tbh is the best one (that i use to try to motivate myself to write for fics) is to just start writing! like literally anything, as soon as u feel like even a second of inspiration or motivation just go with the flow. Whether it’s one sentence, a paragraph or 1000 words lol, just putting words on a page is a great start already. It doesn’t need to be perfect at all, my first fic (unposted) ended up being long with multiple chapters and all the writing throughout was so questionable lol but i was and still am so proud of it! It gave me experience and the learning curve was inspiring that i was excited to try to write even more stuff after. I noticed with each chapter i slowly found a rhythm and improved step by step. Even if it’s just tiny things that u learn, it makes all the difference. You 100% learn as u go, even now whenever i post something i’m like damn i could make a million changes or be annoyed/critical at something but ultimately i’m just happy to have posted something to share with others and contribute a little something to a community of people who share the same interests as me :) and that’s rlly all that matters and as u start doing that u can develop more ideas and “what ifs” to explore i.e more fic ideas etc

in terms of structure for working on fics id say it rlly depends on the individual. for me i usually write a rough outline/summary of what the fic is basically about. I usually try to have key details summarised where they all connect until the end of the fic, so that after that’s done, u can then flesh out the individual chapters or paragraphs out better. But things like plot can also really change whilst ur writing! It all boils down to what inspires u to write.

It’s not bad to have no ideas, i think it’s actually super cool for people to start out with a really simple/basic prompt (maybe something like: oh flash family go to a restaurant or zetaflash go to an arcade or outsiders play board games (lol)) something like that and then u can expand on the story with dialog/events/characterisation/description that really fills it up and makes up the chunkier part of the fic where it almost at times feels like it writes itself.

also fics really doesn’t need to be long at all if that’s something u might find intimidating, my stuff tends to be quite wordy because that’s just how i write (as u can see from most of my ask answers where i just go on and on like can i shut up for once? lmfao) if anything, i admire people who can get points/description/stories across through concise writing or short stories! that’s a real impressive skill too

if u want to start writing fics to post, 100% start writing anything, literally anything and eventually u will manage to figure out ur own workflow/style that suits u best :) i’m 100% still learning too, i mean i have yet to finish a multi chapter fic, but by reminding myself that any writing is a good step somewhere, despite the slow progress, i can still be motivated to keep working on it. i hope these general tips managed to help u somewhat 🙏 again rlly looking forward to checking out ur blog <3

[kotosnoozy]

Aaaah thank you so much for writing lullaby! It was one of the highlights of the month for me~ (this last update had me in tears-good ones! But tears.) Also! Now that it's over, can I ask what would have happened if we had chosen wrong during the story? You don't have to go into detail if you don't want to, but I'm really curious!

ahhhhhh thank you for reading it!!! i’m so glad you enjoyed it!!! 💕i’m more than happy to go into detail!! things would’ve been a lot more gory though so please proceed with caution!!there weren’t any incorrect choices in the first half!! choices there were just to give you a little more freedom and a feel for the polls that would come later!! however the poll asking if you wanted to pursue camus or the key first would’ve affected camus’ appearance later, if you’d chosen to go after the key!! he would’ve been a little more physically icy - that little section with ‘speculation’ about what camus’ monster form would’ve been was right on the mark, and could’ve actually been used!!if you’d chosen wrong on cecil, you would’ve be locked into some form of bad end. reiji could’ve still come out of the other side okay, but cecil would not have, no matter what you did.nightmare cecil would’ve torn actual cecil to shreds. since actual cecil was basically projecting his soul into reiji’s dream, this would’ve meant that he died.but nightmare cecil would’ve pretended that actual cecil had been the true nightmare, and gone around giving you false advice instead. safe to say i’m specifically glad you didn’t get this one wrong, because i really didn’t want to have to write cecil dying lmaoif you’d chosen wrong with otoya, reiji would’ve stabbed him in the face with the knife and carved a new “smile” for him. despite that being what otoya asked him to do, he would’ve gotten annoyed because it wasn’t the right smile, and he would’ve run off.if you’d chosen wrong with tokiya then reiji would’ve shoved him too hard, and he would’ve fallen back into the sparking equipment on the table and been electrocuted. he wouldn’t have died but he would have been pissed. reiji would’ve escaped in time before tokiya managed to attack him however.if you’d chosen wrong with natsuki then satsuki would’ve broken free of their bonds, ignored you and run off after syo. syo would ultimately escape him in time to meet you, but he probably would’ve been roughed up.syo is.... the one boy i didn’t end up with a bad choice planned properly for lmao. i’m not entirely sure what i would’ve done with him honestly!! maybe... because he was left unchecked, he would’ve gone to try and prove how well he could handle himself. if natsuki was still around, he would’ve been eaten by him, but otherwise maybe he goes to try and pick a fight with ranmaru and gets eaten by him instead??masato’s bad choice would’ve just ended up with you stabbing actual masato in the face, and that would’ve panicked him even more. the projector would’ve exploded and masato knocked out cold, but he would’ve been back later on (depending on choices).ren’s bad choice seems pretty self-explanatory to me - reiji would’ve beheaded him lmao. i wanted to work some sort of less obvious joke into the wording of the options, honestly, but i was half asleep when i was writing his chapter;;;;

ranmaru’s bad choice wouldn’t have seemed immediately bad, but he’d have been snarling in the background for all of the second camus encounter, meaning camus would’ve been even more tense. regardless of the number of good and bad choices, if ranmaru had been picked badly for then he would’ve turned up again later to either try to kill reiji, or successfully kill reiji.as i said, camus could have been part-monster from the start of his encounter, but it would’ve seemed as though he’d just gone overboard with magic. if reiji had walked away from him instead of comforting him, he would’ve unthinkingly made the sort of joke he would normally make that might just wind camus up a little. but because he already felt threatened and could turn into a monster, he would’ve done just that. @code-tvu said she might??? still draw what camus would’ve looked like if she gets chance (emphasis on the might), but he basically would’ve just been himself but pure ice.anddddd with the bad choice for aine, as i hinted in that last update, reiji’s heart would’ve known that it was ai speaking to him, and the dream would’ve reflected that. “aine” would’ve carried on the way he was, blaming reiji, as his skin slowly peeled away to reveal machinery.if there were still more good choices made over all, reiji would’ve woken up. but the boys chosen incorrectly for wouldn’t have gotten those little “here’s what’s happening in the waking world” sections, and wouldn’t have been present in the final scene or art.if there were more bad choices made over all, then reiji basically would’ve gotten ripped to shreds by everyone chosen badly for other than i guess syo who i apparently just decided would’ve died khfkhfks. ran would’ve taken the lead on this, if chosen badly on, with a whole thing about the magic holding him back fading away, etc etc.and uhhhhh yeah reiji would’ve died with this one.

reiji and cecil were the only boys who could’ve ever died in “real life”. but yeah, none of the bad choices would’ve been fun to read or for me to write.

[zevlors-tail]

Hi sweater I kind of need some clarification help regarding comfort characters. I really don't want to start something bad so please disregard if this is bad topic. We're close in age and I also enjoy mha characters, but I'm starting to get a little nervous about being attacked for "aged up characters" even though I'm not even into smut writings really. Should I just make my space 18+ to keep myself safe? I just don't want someone angry with me for liking anime characters despite their ages

Hey there! I’m gonna put this under a read more so that I don’t clog up the dash, because I do have a few things to say about it. But rest assured that it’s not a touchy subject for me, I’ll speak my mind on it freely, and there’s nothing wrong with how you’re feeling. Also, no topic is a bad topic! Typically if something bothers me or if I don’t feel like I could handle a topic or situation, I would just say so. :) So no worries!

To jump right into it, I think it really depends on how you feel. And I know that might not sound very helpful, but that’s ultimately what it boils down to- especially if you’re not writing smut atm.

Personally, my blog is 18+ because I do write and reblog smut, but also because when I think about it, I really don’t want minors reading my normal stuff either. When I write for characters whether it’s smut or not, they’re always aged up for me. As a 24 y/o, I automatically go to a place in my mind where Deku is already a prohero, where Bakugou is a prohero, where they’re all either proheroes, or they’re in an AU that ages them up as well, because that’s what I can relate to and what I find attractive and fun. 

So to know that minors/people under 18 are reading my work and relating to it when I specifically write the characters aged up makes me uncomfortable, especially when it’s smut. And I can’t stop them from reading it if they so choose, and I understand that media can come across ten different ways to ten different people...so whereas I write them aged up, I may not have specified that in my work explicitly (often times I just use context clues to show they're over 18, like the fact that they can drink, or can drive, or are working for their own agency etc) , so there is a chance a minor could read it and just imagine themselves with the character who’s around their age and not mine.

But the bottom line for me is that I don’t want to be privy to the information that they’ve read my work or related to it (comfort fics mostly excluded because I write those for everyone and always stay away from writing smut in those so they can be accessible for everyone). I don’t want them to come into my ask box or follow my account, and that’s really why my blog has that 18+ rule attached to it. I don’t want minors talking to me about the things they want certain characters to do to them, about things they want to do to characters, because I am 24 years old, pay taxes, pay rent, and am a whole adult while these guys are not, and the age gap makes me wary and uncomfortable. That being said, I also have a SFW page to share SFW writing because I wanted to be inclusive. But even then I feel like I have to be careful, because I do have an impact on the minors who read my content and my posts.

But mostly these are just my personal feelings. Putting those aside...

I think making your blog 18+ can both hurt and help it. It helps because minors should know that space is clearly not for them, but it might also hurt the blog in the very same way. I noticed the first time I put up that warning in big red letters that said MDNI and other related things that I immediately had an influx of blank blogs and minors who purposefully followed me because of that very post. And I went through and blocked them, but it was annoying to do so because I was getting new followers every hour or so and that was a lot of blogs to block. So I guess what I’m trying to say here is be aware that this could happen when and if you do decide to make it an 18+ space.

Also, as far as nasty messages go, I’ve only ever gotten two asks related to this subject- one about what, exactly, MDNI and 18+ meant, and another from a self shipper that I just never answered bc it seemed weirdly worded and suspicious. I’ve never gotten any hate over it or mean/nasty messages, but I also don’t get a lot of interaction from my original followers and I’m really not that popular/big of a blog. I also don’t produce content on a regular basis anymore either, so that could be why. And I do want to point out that you could receive them either way- I’ve seen people attacked for aging up characters without an 18+ on their blog and with one as well. 

If anyone ever sends you nasty or even passive aggressive messages, my advice is to block them and move on, point blank. Unless you’re really good friends already, no one is worth your time and effort of explaining yourself or your comfort characters. You’re allowed to like them, allowed to express yourself how you want, allowed to feel comfort from them or attraction towards them or whatever it is you feel. They’re drawings. They’re meant to look attractive and aesthetically pleasing to the eye. If someone is angry with you or sending you hate over that, they’re probably out of touch with reality and have a few priorities mixed up. It’s one thing to get attached to your fav or enjoy the show/book/story, but it’s another thing completely to go out of your way and attack a person for something that doesn’t even affect you.

Alright, I’m rambling at this point, but you get the gist of it (I hope lol). There’s nothing wrong with aging up characters, there’s nothing wrong with liking your comfort characters, and there’s nothing wrong with writing for them. If you want to slap an 18+ on your blog if it makes you feel safer, then that’s alright too. And if not? That’s fine as well. <3

I hope this helps!