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It's worth it sometimes, you guys. I just got a comment on a five year old fic and I'm ready to cry:

"i thought of this fic again and had to come back and leave a comment on how impactful it has been to me. [...]"

This was not a person who had commented on this fic before. So, to me, this was a new reader but their comment makes it clear that they didn't just read the story and liked it but that they've read it before and it stayed with them. Which is really the highest praise I can think of.

So for anyone thinking about deleting a fic or orphaning it: don't. You take your chance away of getting a comment like this at some point down the road.

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Source: This

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saw this on twitter rn, if you ever feel discouraged about writing fanfiction, read this again

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if ever you find symbolism in my writing please tell me i’d like to know about it too

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how did you learn to write well?

well first you have to be a very sad child

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People who leave long detailed comments on fics and also quote their favorite lines: do u know how important u are? Do u know how deeply I cherish u? Do u know that there is nothing on this earth that I would not do for u?

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Why do people stop commenting on fics if they’re more than a week or two old? Please comment on old fics. Tell me you like my one shot from 2014. Tell me you like my old multi-chap I finished in 2016 that I spent a year writing. I will be fucking thrilled.

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Man, Anne Rice sure did traumatize whole generations of fanfiction writers.

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ah yes the last three months of the year: halloween, nanowrimo and christmas

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i want people to feel about my writing the way roger ebert feels about the mummy

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Every piece of work you create doesn’t have to be The Best, Perfect, Flawless Work for it to be meaningful.

The first story I ever started?  About teenage girls that get elemental powers and get kidnapped?  If I hadn’t written that, I might’ve never tried getting stories out of my head and onto paper.

The first story I ever finished?  A YA fantasy with too many characters and flat relationships and a unnecessarily complicated plot?  If I hadn’t written that, I might’ve never believed that I could finish a novel-length story.

The first fanfiction I ever uploaded?  A self-insert OC fanfiction that overused italics?  If I hadn’t written that, I might’ve never gone on to spend a decade writing fanfiction.

The first novel I tried to query?  A draft I didn’t much like, a story I was fed-up with, rejections I knew were deserved?  If I hadn’t written that, I might’ve never pushed myself to figure out what the publishing process looked like.

The whump snippets I jot down?  Help me refine writing whump, writing pain, writing angst and emotions and feelings.

The new tropes/styles I try out?  Help me broaden my writing experience, better my writing, allow me to branch out.

The writing, day after day, even if it’s deleted, even if I hate it, even if I think it’s absolute garbage?  Help me write, help me get words onto the page, help me flex my fingers and imagination, help me figure out what I’m doing wrong so I know what to do right.

Everything you create is a step forward, even if you don’t see it at the time.

When you look back at old work, it’s easy to cringe, it’s easy to hide your face, it’s easy to wince and wish you did better and pretend like it didn’t exist.  But climbing a mountain means accepting that you started at the bottom, means realizing that the view is so much better for the effort, means remembering that even when you couldn’t see the clouds, you kept moving forward.

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PROBLEM!!!!

THERE IS A WEBSITE (teenfic.net)

IT STEALS WATTPAD WRITERS WORK AND UPLOADS THE WORK WITHOUT THE WRITERS PERMISSION.

EVEN WORSE, ON THE WEBSITE, YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE THE WORDS, MEANING MORE PEOPLE CAN STEAL YOUR WORK.

PLEASE OLEASE PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION TO TAKE THE WEBSITE DOWN.

WHAT THEY DID IS ILLEGAL AND WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

THERE IS THIS WEBSITE THAT STEALS YOUR WORK!! YOU CAN EVEN COPY AND PASTE ON THE WEBSITE, MEANING MORE PEOPLE CAN STEAL YOUR WORK FROM THERE.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION

http://chng.it/B2pFrYsxqZ

IF YOU HAVE WATTPAD AND YOU WRITE ON THERE, IF YOU TYPE YOUR USERNAME IN THE SEARCH BAR OF teenfic.net THEN YOU WILL MOST LIKELY SEE YOUR WORK

SIGINAL BOOST!!!!

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SORRY IF I DIDNT TAG YOU, IM JUST TAGGING A LOT OF PEOPLE I CANT REMEMBER EVERYONES

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reblog this if you’re a fanfic writer & your motivation to write actually increases when readers actually show interest & give you feedback. even just a reblog or a little comment here and there

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