From Critical Role C3EP92

Dorym - so close, yet so far.

Me: Okay, Brain. Think about what happens next in this chapter.

Brain: *Skips three chapters ahead*

Me: No, no. This one, this chapter, the one we are writing right now.

Brain:.......*47 scenes forward*

Me: NO

A shout out to all the writers out there who don’t make the rec lists or have all the buzz or get all the traffic and attention or kudos. Your work is still valuable and appreciated and loved, and without you and your fics, fandom would be so much poorer.

Keep on writing and creating and sharing your works. You have an audience who loves you.

The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

✨Having someone who is invested in your story and discusses it with you is like a solid half of the fun of writing. I'm not even kidding.✨

me writing: i am a god and reality bends to my whims

me proofreading: im too stupid to be alive

*squints suspiciously at the last paragraph I wrote* are you. coherent?

WRITE IT!!! WRITE THAT SELF INDULGENT SHIT!!!

people telling you they reread your fic is the biggest compliment you could ever receive. there are thousands of stories out there begging to be found, to be explored, but your story meant so much to someone that they came back to it eagerly, they went over every word again. to love is to return and loving a fic is rereading it. thank you to all readers and rereaders <3333

writing fics be like

You’ve heard of one shots, now get ready for none shots! It’s when you think of an idea for a fic and then don’t write it