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dei2dei · 2 years

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Leaving Comments: Some Ideas

I suck a leaving them! I want to leave more! What do I doooo!?!

A lot of us have this struggle. Leaving comments is as hard—maybe sometimes harder!—than writing a story. You might not know how to word the feels the fic made you have, or be able to identify craft components, or “leave something worthwhile” if you think the story was fantastic. Hint: any comment is worthwhile, even if it’s a heart emoji! ❤️

If you’re struggling, here are ideas for things to comment on. I’ve tried to keep all of this fandom-blind friendly, especially since I know one source of stress is leaving comments for comment/review exchanges.

Are character voices distinct? If you’re not fandom blind, can you identify character voices that are preserved from canon? What about them really says “this is CHARACTER”?

I love your voice for A! It’s a really distinct voice and vocabulary compared to B. / You have a great handle on C’s voice, and it’s like I’m reading a page straight out of the manga.

Can you identify motivations? Do you get invested in the characters? Are you interested in seeing what they do next?

It’s easy to see why X throws himself so completely into this and is trying to hunt down the person who stole his ice cream cone. He seems really hot-tempered so I can’t wait to find out how he interacts with the thief!

How is the language - is it lyrical and flowery, is it succinct and terse? Does that help the story at all?

Your language is just like reading a fairytale, and that makes the story really immersive. Since you’re writing about fairies and the Fae realm, this is PERFECT.

Is there conflict of some kind (big or small) that interests you?

I have no idea why A & B hate each other so much but I can’t wait to find out!

What do you think of the climax/resolution? Is the end satisfying? Do you want more?

What kind of POV did they use, and how did it help you get into the story?

Was the pacing great? Were you breathless and just had to keep clicking to find out what happened next? Was it so slow you were totally immersed in the world and sad when you were finished?

Is the writer great with banter? With sensory details? Are their fight sequences amazeballs? Are the setting descriptions out of this world? TELL THEM THAT!

Make guesses about what happens next!

Call out lines you liked and what they signify or imply to you. Or if they straight-up made you laugh or cry or have other emotional reactions!

Did the author use any new words you’re going to add to your writing/vocabulary?

Was there worldbuilding you loved, or any tiny little details or phrases that you appreciated?

Did you keep reading through (just one more chapter!), did you skip work/stay up late/miss a class to keep reading? The author will keep your secret. ;)

Keyboard smashes and emojis are valid comments!

If this is an author whose work you read regularly and enjoy (even if you’re a first time commenter), you can tell them that.

I’ve read everything in ABC series but I’ve been too nervous to comment before. I really enjoyed this story, thank you for writing and sharing it!

You never have to justify the quantity or quality of your comments to anyone*. You can leave as succinct a comment as a heart or smiley face, or as long and in-depth as you’d like. Sometimes all I have the headspace for is a “this was great, count this as a chapter kudos” comment, and the authors I have left that for have been appreciative!

*unless you’re doing an exchange where you need a minimum wordcount, but hopefully these ideas will help you get there!

You don’t have to feel bad about leaving multiple comments in a row or on an old work. There are authors who are over the moon (like me!) when someone does a deep dive and comments on an old piece, or who binges a series, or leaves comments on every chapter. We love you. Sometimes one comment on an unfinished piece can be the impetus for an author to write more.

For more resources…

The Long Live Feedback Project has a comment builder! You can copy the spreadsheet and use drop-downs to pick choices of varying complexity depending on your spoon level, and then paste it all into the comment box at the end! https://longlivefeedback.tumblr.com/commentbuilder

For AO3 users, there are a few userscripts out there for floating review boxes which allow you to highlight pieces of the story and comment as you go.

https://ravenel.tumblr.com/post/156555172141/i-saw-this-post-by-astropixie-about-how-itd-be [this link includes a how-to for FFN!]

#comments #commenting is hard #fanfiction #fanfic comments #writeblr #fanficbl #maybe some of these ideas will help

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kaibacorpbros · 11 months

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send a number for me to talk about one of the following topics! | @shoot-of-corruption 10. Anons

◇ They're fun! I really really love anons that ask about headcanons and worldbuilding stuff for my muses especially!

It's also fun for anons to mess with muses here and there if they aren't trying to make your muse act in a way they clearly wouldn't naturally. I don't/won't fully RP with anons since I always like to have rules to read so I can know what the other person is ok with but little things here and there are fun! I wish I got more of them to be honest.

17. fanon interpretations

How much time you got? : ")

The most common fanon interpretation I see of Kaiba is a pervy, abusive, possessive, cocky, and obsessive Christian Gray-like character. Like. Did we even read/watch the same thing yall. I don't get why this take is popular at all (especially when people take it to the point where acting like it would only be natural for someone in Seto's status to assault people and worse) or is some big uber Dom ™ hardcore kink king or something. I just. This man literally never expressed any kind of sexual attraction (unlike Jou and Yugi who watch porn and clearly get all blushy if they see an attractive girl or Anzu who explicitly had a crush on Yami Yugi early on) Kaiba is only shown as caring about dueling, KC, and Mokuba so. Where. Is. This. Fanon. Coming. From. I guess it's just so hawwwwt to the masses that they just?? Shove Kaiba into the Christian Gray-like personality because he just happens to be a rich and young CEO???

The most common fanon I see for Mokuba tends to make him into a uwu soft boi that has infinite patience for anything Seto does and can't do anything without Seto's help. Even though we literally see him get angry, push back against Seto when he doesn't agree (Noah arc and at the end of battle city if not counting filler as canon) and is very very smart. He knows how to use most all of KC's tech, escaped from Pegasus's castle on his own, hacked back into the KC system when Yako took over the building in YGO R, but no I guessh Seto needs to help baby Mokuba with his algebra homeworks oh nooos he doesn't know what to doooo

Yeah so I'm not a fan of the most popular fanons I've seen of the bros : ")

27. an old muse

I had a AU-based Yugi for a short while over on @pledgedsouls but I didn't really think it all the way through too much. The AU was where in the duel against Aigami the attack Kaiba redirected in dsod did hit Yugi and defeated him and while Kaiba eventually won against Diva because Atem couldn't return temporarily the ring/corrupted Diva wasn't banished just beaten back, so as corrupted Diva used the Cube to flee he dragged Kaiba with him and Yugi is now on a journey to find him and bring him home.

It was neat but led to a lot of threads being reintroductions each time and Yugi trying to make sense of the new dimension he's in and realizing once again, it doesn't contain his Kaiba which got a little repetitive.

28. your first muse

Both the bros were my first muses on tumblr! Only thing I did before that was some cringy rps in like dA chat rooms when I was a teenager lol so I don't think those really count.

#shootofcorruption #(this got long sorry xD)#(asks)#assault mention cw #salt cw #(just in case)

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beastenraged · 1 year

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Every once in a while I do wander myself back in reading Fire Emblem: Three Houses fics, mostly because I’m fascinated by the worldbuilding Fodlan presents to us without actually expanding into detail about any of it.

(And the characters are fun too. Yeah.)

If I do manage to write a fe3h fic, I think I would want to plop in a Nabatean survivor of the Zanado massacre because that would mess everything up. For everyone. (Particularly the way I would want to write it...with a younger Nabatean.)

Rhea- suddenly there’s another one of her people who’s alive. WHO ACTUALLY WAS THERE WHEN EVERYONE DIED TOO, unlike the other survivors who appeared to have made it because they weren’t there. What’s that, it’s a kid too with no parent? What does she doooo-

Seteth and Flayn- similar reactions as Rhea I think, plus Flayn is no longer The Baby TM.

Agarthans- What The Fuck. There’s another one of those beasts. And it’s a child too, maybe we could use that...

Edelgarde- ...She thought only the adults were left. The ones that committed the crimes that have destroyed her country and life. What does she do about a child? A child as young as her sib- no. Don’t think about it. She has to keep to the Plan. She has to.

Of course, that’s only people In The Know. It’ll be real weird for everyone else to suddenly have a green haired kid pop up out of the red rocks zone. Especially a kid with a MYSTERY Crest.

#fe3h #my fic ideas #my thoughts #fe3h nabatean #technically i have something like this in the works #but it's got some other stuff i'm still thinking about maybe i'll put that up in a different post

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anneimaginesundertale · 5 years

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bluejayebirdie replied to your post “Worldbuilding Wednesday”

By sleepy brother, does Bones share some similar traits with Sans? I guess some things never change, when it comes to Sanses, huh? In what ways can you keep him awake? Care to demonstrate?

Lucky: Oh yes, they’re very similar. Bones is, perhaps, a little less prone to sleeping on the job. In any case, a poke in the ribs usually does it, or starting a pun they can’t resist finishing.

Sans: *yawning* ‘sin our natures... lazybones is the technical term for us, you know. *his sockets drift shut*

Lucky: *quietly* This is my preferred method to wake them, though. *he clears his throat, then sings out, Shave, and a haircut...

Sans: *wakes with a snort* ...two bits!

(Sorry...I can’t help it. I keep thinking of this clip. My skeletons run on toon logic...They just doooo...)

#bluejayebirdie #replies #worldbuilding wednesday

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lettersandinkstains · 5 years

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Okay opinions:

Should I do:

Character profiles? (either for Ichor or Blood on the Altar, maybe Three Steps of Romance)

Drabble stuff? (I have a few sitting in my ask box ;; I’m sorrry!!!)

Chapter Three of So Said the King?

Worldbuilding posts (Ichor, Blood on the Altar. Worldbuilding for SSTK is on a minor hiatus until I can iron some stuff out)?

Just rambly posts about stuff?

Some sort of quote aesthetics with characters?

Character...soundtracks?

Character aesthetics + a song lyric??

What do I doooo

#authors notes #i need to chill is what i need to do #but i have a need to cREATE #bleh

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daisywords · 5 years

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I was reading one of those worldbuilding posts and I realized I have NO IDEA how people tell time in Starlight-verse and it’s been bugging me for days like what would they doooo

#starligtwip #this is such a basic thing and yet #I have way more specific and unnecessary worldbuilding deatials #and I do NOT KNOW #how they tell time #or what they use for lighting #ugh

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fox-in-the-library · 5 years

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11 Questions

Tagged by the lovely @teashadephoenix Tagging in return any other writers out there who feel like answering!

1. How long have you been writing? I actually can't remember? My terrible paranoia of sharks comes from about the age of three, when I dictated a story about vampire sharks to my grandmother for her to write down, but managed to scare myself in the process ala Anne Shirley.

2. What are the major themes of your current wip(s)? Loneliness and connections. Having integrity in challenging situations. Truth-seekers. Snappy dialogue over coffee and/or brandy.

3. What do you want people to take away from your story once they’ve read it? Depends on the story! Ideally, I want them to feel that they've read something that resonates with them, and which either gives them a new perspective, or enriches their own perspective or situation.

4. Would you be excited if people write fanfiction about your wip(s)? YYYYYEEEEEESSSSSS DOOOO IT. If I ever publish anything, you are all welcome to take my characters and run with them on A03. For the love of God, don't send me anything you write, because Legal Reasons, but fanmixes would be pretty cool. I'd listen to those.

5. What’s your go-to writing beverage? Morning, coffee; evening, tea.

6. Who is your favorite oc? Tell me about them!

I started to answer this question and have come to the conclusion that I have way too many wips, most of which have overlapping character types. I truly am that person with only one story to tell.

My uncomplicated secondary ocs in some ways are my favourites just because I can unreservedly like them.

Manos and Cathy from In the Shadow of Mountains are obvious front runners because they're based on real people. I told Manos that I'd put her in my novel, and then Cathy shrieked,'You're dead to me! You'd better write me a part, girl!' so I had to put her in as well. Hopefully they'll be happy with their fictional alter egos as a funky archeologist and a take-no-shit red-lipsticked journalist.

Gus from Carfax Grange, because it's hard not to like a friendly bulldog in a WW1 sanitorium

My more complicated ocs...

Antigone and Stephen in This Great Illusion are both wrangling demons, and in some ways they're my favourites because it was the first short story where I felt like I was genuinely putting elements of myself in, and fuck was it scary to write.

Larkin from The Memory of the World was/is a joy to write. If you can picture Brendan Gleeson as an idealistic former war reporter in occupied France who gets tangled up with a local SOE operation while at the same time discovering that the local Gestapo head is a man he ran guns with in Ireland the 1920s, you'll be most of the way there.

7. Do you feel that mistakes are important learning tools in the writing journey? Are there any other learning tools?

8. Rank your ocs by their capability in a footchase (either running after or from smth, your choice) First place is a toss-up between Finny from In the Shadow of Mountains or Julia from The Memory of the World. Finny spends her working days chasing serial killers and werewolves through mine shafts and cave systems; Julia spends hers sprinting away from the Gestapo in a skirt and heels. Wolfgang Wucherpfennig from The Memory of the World meanwhile spends most of his working day sprinting after Julia, so... Dora Carr tried to run away from a suffragette rally, but got caught. Leroy Mars is still traumatised by having to wrestle a gator to save his mortgage, and has vowed never to participate in anything athletic again. In Carfax Grange, Bartholomew's right leg is completely dinghied from the trenches of WW1, so he isn't running anytime soon. In The Memory of the World, it's beneath Larkin's bulk and dignity to run. Creasy from In the Shadow of Mountains has subordinates like Finny to run for him.

9. Does your wip have romance? tell me about it!! if not tell me about a friendship/important relationship in your wip! So many wips with so many ambiguous will they / won't they relationships. My current favourite relationship to write is from In the Shadow of Mountains - Finny makes the mistake of falling into bed with a childhood friend who has a connection to her current case. It doesn't end well, but that's half the fun of plotting... Antigone and Stephen's dialogue was really fun to write as well - Illusion was the first story I wrote where I felt like I nailed the bickering couple will they/won't they trope in parts.

10. Do you believe in the advice kill your darlings? Eh, depends. I think that you have to be able to build up enough critical distance to be able to cut bits of writing you love that just don't quite work, or don't further the story. I don't agree with killing off characters for shock value.

11. Do you prefer plotting or worldbuilding? Why? Worldbuilding. PLOTTING IS THE DEVIL THE DEVIL I TELL YOU. (Also, I suck at it.)

#writing

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