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I’m noticing an increase in new fic writers on AO3 who…uh…mayy not know how to format their fics correctly..so here is a quick and VERY important tip
Using a random fic of mine as example..
The left example: ✅✅✅
The right example: ❌❌❌
Idk how many times I’ve read a good fic summary and been so excited to read before clicking on it and being met with an ugly wall of text. When I see a huge text brick with zero full line breaks my eyes blur and I just siiiigh bc either I click out immediately or I grin and bear it…it’s insufferable!
If a new character speaks, you need a line break. If you notice a paragraph is becoming too large, go ahead and make a line break and/or maybe reconfigure the paragraph to flow better. I’m not a pro writer or even a huge fic writer but…please…ty…
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this has been discussed before but reducing female characters to the girlboss braincell holder in the name of combating misogyny in fandom is ironically also a form of misogyny
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If you can’t think of anything to say about a fic, writers also like to know:
- what time it is
- how long you’ve been reading
- how many chapters you’ve covered in the last 24 hours
- what you were late for because you were reading
- the woeful few hours you have left to sleep
- the emotional outbreaks you’re experiencing
- the inappropriate place you’re having said outbreak
- the general public’s reaction to your outbreak
- how much phone battery you have left
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obsessed with characters who were written for one another. like, what do you mean the reason for my existence is to be by your side? what do you mean our divine purpose is to belong to one another, for better or worse?
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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol
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Seeing as you’re an experienced author I think it’s safe to assume you’ve tried and tested both methods and could probably give me a fair answer. Should I:
a) continue pestering my friends to read what I wrote because I’m insecure about my art and then be disappointed by their brutal honesty
Or
b) stop doing that and just write for myself because I don’t like criticism
What about c) find a group of probably mostly online people who like the kinds of things that you write and understand how to encourage a young writer without the kind of brutal honesty that will make you hide under a table I never write again?
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Twas brillig and the slithy tothes did gire and gimble in the wabe....
Apparently they're selling post content to train AI now so let us be the first to say, flu nork purple too? West motor vehicle surprise hamster much! Apple neat weed very crumgible oysters in a patagonia, my hat. Very of the and some then shall we not? Much jelly.
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#lmao#this really feels like something i wrote#but im not looking thru all my fics bc#this could fit...so many#oops
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"Fairytales don't tell children, that dragons exist.
Children already know, that dragons exist.
Fairytales tell children, that dragons can be killed."
G.K. Chesterton.
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The Zero Comment Challenge is a way for readers to find new stories and reach out to authors they want to encourage.
Every fandom has stories that get lost in the shuffle. Maybe they were posted during a busy time and didn’t get much attention. Maybe the author didn’t tag as effectively as they could have to get their story in front of the audience it was intended for. Maybe the fandom is just really shy so they leave kudos instead of comments.
The Zero Comment Challenge is meant to find those authors and give them some love. Go to the AO3 search and filter by comments, then look at the fics that don’t have any comments at all. Find one that looks interesting to you and let the author know what you thought. They get to meet a new reader and you get to find new fic. Everyone wins!
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What’s writing, you know? What does writing actually mean?
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When your characters just start revealing lore you didn't know about them, as you're writing them
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Please reblog this if fanfiction has been beneficial to your mental health.
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