#wish me luck this is my first time uploading a multi chaptered fic

[parameciam]

So. As my way to celebrate this shuake holiday... I started uploading the rest of my post-canon series. You can check it out here if you want 🩷

This part is multi chaptered and I'll do my best to update weekly :3c

If you ever craved a story with Goro Akechi waking up from a coma several years after canon, under the care of the Kirijo Group, centered on his trauma, with lots of angst and a happy ending... maybe you'd like my silly little series!

Tags and summaries under the cut ❤️ Please read the tags and warnings carefully.

[wittyy-name]

How did you keep motivated to write long multi-chapter fics before you had so much support from fans of yours (myself included)? Or did you start with like one shots and people liked them, so you decided to go for multi-chapters and the support from your readers kept you writing? I wanna write a long(ish) fic but I'm concerned about maintaining motivation; do you have any advice? Thanks!

To be completely honest, I stay motivated because comments from readers isn’t the heart of my motivation. 

Don’t get me wrong. The feedback, comments, asks, and support I get is amazing. It’s incredibly validating, and it makes me feel good. I get excited to share my writing with people who will enjoy it. I don’t take a single thing for granted, and I appreciate all of it. The support I get from readers does wonders to keep you going when you’re filled with doubt. 

However, I don’t think it’s healthy to solely rely on reader feedback for motivation. Feedback, comments, the numbers, it’s all so fickle. It comes and goes. There are so many reasons that one chapter will get less feedback than another, and it will have nothing to do with your writing itself. 

I love my readers and the support means the world to me, but I don’t write for the support. I write for myself. I write because I’m inspired. I write because I have so many storylines in my head, and I want to share them. I write because writing makes me feel good. Creating and escaping in my storytelling is the one thing in my life I’m 100% sure of. It’ll sound dramatic, but it’s the one thing I’m certain that I’m meant to do. I write the stories I want to write. I write them how I want to tell them. I write them because I’m inspired, and I love sharing. I love the support I get from readers, but I don’t write to get it. I write because i want to, and the support is just a response to that. I don’t write stories I think will be popular, I write what I want to. The stories that I love. And I want to finish them for me. To prove to myself that I can. 

That being said, there’s nothing wrong with getting motivation from reader support. Reader support feels amazing, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with getting inspired and excited from the comments and excitement that you receive. I just don’t think it should be your only source of motivation. That’s giving other people the power to take something you love away from you. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, and all those cliche idioms. 

To answer your question on how I stay motivated though, and how I’ve stayed motivated this long in this fandom... I surround myself with things I love. I surround myself with things that inspire me. I surround myself with positive things. I don’t let myself read discourse. I don’t let myself dwell on fandom drama. Those things frustrate me and give me anxiety, which is toxic for motivation and creativity. I actively hold my happy inspired bubble and don’t let things that I know will ruin it for me in. This is my happiness, and no one will take it from me. Klance inspires me, and it makes me happy, and I refuse to let anyone ruin it for me.

I also have a group of positive friends, who never fail to encourage me and support me even if we don’t have the same ships and even if they’ve moved on from voltron. And I have Sora. Who’s just as much into this ship as I am. She reads my stuff and validates me. She bounces ideas with me and talks klance with me, until we’re falling in love with the pair all over again. Surround yourself with positive and wholesome influences, people you can talk about things with that make you happy and inspired. 

As for how I started writing... I, uh... very rarely ever do oneshots. Except for patreon. In every fandom I’ve been in, I’ve jumped face first into long multi-chaptered fics. That’s just who I am. I have stories, and I wanna tell them. I’ve always dove right into the deep end without any reader base. 

If you’d like to build up a reader base, however, I recommend multi-chaptered fics. Longer fics and fics with chapters give us, as readers, something to invest in. We come back time and time again. And by uploading continuously, you show that you’re an active and reliable writer. And maybe this is just bc I love longer stories, and I find it hard to write anything short lol.

Whatever you choose to do, though, I wish you the best of luck. If you have a story you want to write and you want to tell, do it. Keep doing it. Express yourself and write what makes you happy. The readers will come. Maybe not always right away, but over time. And the more you write, the better you’ll get. Writing, like art, is a constant and amorphous improvement.