#fic woes

[blueysblues]

Need your opinion dear fic writers and readers...

I'm a beginner writer on AO3 and posted my first multi chapter series for a fandom I love 3 weeks ago. So far I've posted 4 out of 20 chapters and have a total word count of 10,413.

But I hardly get any comments with feedback and honestly its so discouraging. I find it difficult to push myself to finish the story even :(

I can see people like it, I received 31 kudos and 31 subscriptions and 15 bookmarks within these 3 weeks. Is this a good number to have? Should I keep writing? I honestly don't know. Maybe my stories are just that bad and I should stick to reading.

I always loved commenting as a reader and it is always such a thrill when the author replies. I wish people commented more.

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[freesia-writes]

#please don't look too closely for plot holes #just enjoy the story #the overall idea was genius but I am not #fanfiction #fic writing #fanfic #creative writing #writing #fiction #fanfic writers #fanfic writing #fic writer #fic woes #writeblr #fiction writers #writers on tumblr

[inknopewetrust]

#🫡 in solidarity for all my hoes with so many promises #writer #fic writer #fic woes #x reader #stranger things #bridgerton #shadow and bone #sherlock #eddie munson x reader #aleksander morozova x reader #steve harrington x reader

[thenerdyindividual]

Guess what I created instead of writing my one shot

#fic writing #fic woes #fic meme #writing memes #fanfiction #fanfic #fanfic meme

[frownyalfred]

I like to tag my a/b/o related posts pretty clearly so folks can avoid them if desired (no judgement) but the side effect of doing so means I just tried to sign an email with my name and then added “a/b/o tw” underneath it on autopilot

#personal #about me #a/b/o tw #a/b/o mention #fic woes #this happens…way more often than I’d like

[khepiari]

I don't like it when it's in our world, I think there is a One Piece school manga where the ages are either the same or not as high, but when you apply the canonical ages, Law working and Luffy still in school, I don't let to think that I have to call the police or the psychologist and this is my problem, I know, but as pirates Law and Luffy are more equal than in our world (it still scares me sometimes, canonically it is not a problem but there is fanfics where even about pirates this is shady), but I always think that the problem is not always the ship, but rather those who write or draw

Well, when it comes to fandom, this is my personal rule: canon is reference material for me.

“Age-gap” trope is not new, it has existed since the beginning of the fiction genre to be fair. Because people have been marrying/living/romancing between large gaps for time memorial in real-life. Yes, in most cases, it’s young women and older men because of societal beliefs; young women are considered as limited shelf-life goods while men in possession of money are a catch. Age-gap relationships until the advent of modern society benefited off vulnerable young women who had no money or social security.

Historically, age-gap has been extremely common in queer relationships, we have had huge age-gaps too as well, one famous couple being Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy; 30 years. I know fellow queer people in happy relationships where age-gap is over 15 years, and I know fellow heterosexual couples with two years age-gap in miserable marriages. Who gets to be happy in their relationship is relative to contextual environment.

But I am digressing. Coming back to my OTP

As you said, Law and Luffy become a problematic romance if they are placed in a modern setting like High School romance and not the canon timeline. For example, they are put in the context of where one is still in school and the other is a functional adult. Your concerns are valid, but my concern here is; who is this age-gap romance about two 2D fictional characters written on a fan-run website in a tiny slash pairing fandom hurting? Because as far as I know no one is being made to read these stories as part of their school/university literature curriculum. A reader is choosing to read these stories on their own will. Someone might sent you the link, and you can click on it, but you still have to press the consent button to read it, right?

Law and Luffy to me have been equal, since day one both in “canon” and in my fics. Because I have never seen their age-gap as a power dynamic story. I am the person who wrote My Little Husband, I think that story has every trope, problem and issue that people who hate the age-gap associate with. Even in that story, Luffy is an equal, and the active agent in his story. So yeah coming back to what you ended the ask with.

You said about LawLu ship “problem is not always the ship, but rather who writes or draws.” I will simply disagree here. My main reason is that every fic author/fan artist has the right to write/draw/think about their ship how they want. Who are we as consumers of these stories to say “This is bad” and “that is good?”

Yes, your feelings of dislike/ick are valid. That’s why you have been provided with the options of tags, warnings and basic fic ratings.

In my fics, I add the tags and mark the sex scenes out, and if it’s explicit topics or scenes, there are reminders in the text that a reader can skip certain parts. What more can we do to protect the reader’s comfort?

Hence.

I refuse to endorse the idea that the problem lies with the creator of the ship. Just because someone writes something that makes other people uncomfortable doesn’t mean it’s “bad or wrong”. And just because something makes you comfortable because it aligns with your personal beliefs isn’t necessarily “good or correct”.

Engaging with fiction is a personal experience, so you have to curate what you are looking for. Do you want to be comfortable or do you want to be stirred with feelings? The choices are yours to make and you can indulge in all or none at all. Yet, no one has any right to call a fan creator, “You are the problem for creating something because it makes me feel uncomfortable.”

Will you like it? Let’s say— you go to a pot-luck party with a delicious tumbler of potato stew, and someone willingly tastes a spoonful/eats the entire bowl and then tells you right after that, “You are a bad person and cook as your potato stew made their mouth tingle because of the variation of spices you used for that person’s favourite vegetable?”

No, you won’t.

So my advice is simple: don’t interact with something that makes you uncomfortable and unhappy. Fandom is not the place to measure our morality.

The end.

#lawlu #lulaw #one piece lawlu #one piece #monkey d. luffy #trafalgar law #one piece luffy #one piece law #lawluffy #lawlu fanfic #lawlu fanart #fic writing #fic writers #fic woes

[capobegone]

Currently making a pilgrimage to go see sea slugs at the aquarium and clawing my way through my chapter on the car ride. I told my readers that I would actually have it done in 2 weeks this time and not 3 but here we are on upload day 2 weeks in and I have exactly 174 words written HELP

#Writing has been so so difficult for me recently #More than ever actually #I’m doing my best!! #Good news is this section is Capo original and not following the manga #So hopefully it will be a little easier #the tide of fate #fic woes #demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba

[shapa-likes-art]

Do you ever read a WIP of yours and you go

"Oh damn! This slaps"

Before agonizing because you have to write it

And now you're sad because you don't wanna write it?

Because yeah, same.

#Id anyone comes here talking about chatGPT i am personally holding a gun to your head #Shapa's ramblings #Writing #WIP #Writers woes #Writing woes #Fic woes

[beri-allen]

checking ao3 statistics be like

#fanfic writing #fic writing #fic woes #ao3 writer #ao3 fanfic #ao3 #writing #fanfiction #fanfic #fanfic problems

[viktheviking1]

#r/ao3 #fanfic writing #fanfic authors #fanfic woes #fanfic troubles #fanfic problems #fic writing #fic authors #fic woes #fic problems #fanfiction woes #fanfiction writer #fanfiction author #fanfiction problems #r/a03

[gayjaytodd]

why do I keep coming up with fic ideas where the characters go on transcontinental road trips across north america? I spend so much time on google maps trying to figure out how long it takes to get from A to B, I know way more usamerican geography than I want to

#jay talks #fic woes #I'm 99.9% sure it's bc of supernatural #bc everything with me comes back to supernatural

[thenerdyindividual]

The Creativity Hydra: Start one project and two more take its place

#fic writing #fic woes #writing process #writing memes #fic meme #fic memes #writing struggles #writing woes #writing #creative process #creative projects #also applied to my other hobbies such as sewing and dnd

[josiebelladonna]

kinktober 2023

my second time and i’m about… 10000000x more insecure in my sexuality 😪. this event and its interactions are for 18+ readers only. please please please please pay attention to the content and trigger warnings; these fics will be based on my current flagship fics, as the seasons grey, like blood from a stone, eerie inhabitants, and love is not enough:

seasons grey is a university au with a teacher-student dynamic at its core that’s as plump and ripe as an apple off the branch;

blood from a stone is a royalty/soulmate au that’s just based out of my own female gaze;

eerie inhabitants is a REALLY VIOLENT vampire au that i’m bringing back from the dead just for spooky season;

and love is not enough is a prostitute/street walker au that carries a bottle of hooch and lays on the ground with no bra on.

all four stories are sweet and emotional but also erotic because they pertain to my own personal sexuality (hence why i’m very nervous and even awkward saying this). nevertheless, please be advised!

A/N: *sigh* okay. i’m going to be honest with all of you, sexuality is a very delicate subject for me and it’s a daily battle for me, grappling with it in the goal to see it as this natural thing. just thinking about it makes me so… dirty and anxious and uncomfortable and deeply ashamed and misty-eyed and frustrated and kind of angry. i participated in kinktober last year and had some fun, and yet i struggled with feeling comfortable: now i feel like i’m sitting on gravel that’s been out in the sun. i’m not this confident, voluptuous vixen who is eager to share her fantasies with all of you: i’m a raw stinky-ass, dirty-ass troll under the bridge who feels the words “confident”, “voluptuous”, and “vixen” should come nowhere near me. i’m going to tell you this now, i am quite wordy, because that’s just how i roll with erotic writing, and i always feel that i have no right to feel sexy.

really, please be patient with me and try to enjoy. i won’t blame you if you cringe at my stories and laugh at it rather than with it.

these prompts are from @flightlessangelwings and @the-purity-pen, the latter of whom i remember from last year (i’ll try to remember the #fawktober tag 😅🔥)

i’m just going to give away the titles and the ships: i’ll leave the prompts themselves as a surprise for you.

“Conundrum” — Alex/Lilian (Eerie Inhabitants)

“Ashes to Ashes” — Alex/Christine (As the Seasons Grey)

“A Cup of Tea” — Joey/Chuck (Like Blood from a Stone)

“Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks” — Eric/Abby (Eerie Inhabitants)

“Rain” — Alex/Q/Jay (Love Is Not Enough)

“Rocky Mountains” — Eric/Christine (As the Seasons Grey)

“Shadows of the Night” — Joey/Chuck + Alex/Chuck + Chuck/Cliff (lol) (Like Blood from a Stone)

“3rd Floor” — Alex/Lilian (Eerie Inhabitants)

“Master of the House” — Alex/Q (Love Is Not Enough)

“Vampires Will Never Hurt You” — Alex/Christine (As the Seasons Grey)

“Different Colors Made of Tears” — Joey/Chuck + Eric/Chuck (Like Blood from a Stone)

“Death by Chocolate” — Alex/Jay (Love Is Not Enough)

“Devil’s Haircut” — Alex/Christine (As the Seasons Grey)

“I Could Have Lied” — Eric/Lilian + Mark/Abby (Eerie Inhabitants)

“Dirty Window” — Alex/Q/Jay (Love Is Not Enough)

“Coriander” — Alex/Chuck/Joey (Like Blood from a Stone)

“Lip Gloss” — Eric/Christine (As the Seasons Grey)

“Golden Ratio” — Alex/Lilian + Mark/Abby (Eerie Inhabitants)

“Neon Moon” — Alex/Q/Jay (Love Is Not Enough)

“Django Tango” — Alex/Christine (As the Seasons Grey)

“Salt the Wound” — Chuck/Cliff (Like Blood from a Stone)

“Doce Com Doce” — Alex/Jay (Love Is Not Enough)

“Icicle” — Mark/Abby + Rob/Abby (Eerie Inhabitants)

“One of These Nights” — Alex/Christine (As the Seasons Grey)

“Spirits in the Mist” — Eric/Louie (Like Blood from a Stone)

“Trial By Fire” — Alex/Q (Love Is Not Enough)

“7” — Alex/Christine (As the Seasons Grey)

“Delta of Venus” — Joey/Chuck (Like Blood from a Stone)

“Only These Words” — Eric/Abby + Alex/Lilian (Eerie Inhabitants)

“Call Me By Your Name” — Alex/Chuck/Chuck (Like Blood from a Stone)

“Fairies Wear Boots” — Alex/Christine + Eric/Christine (As the Seasons Grey)

#kinktober #kinktober 2023 #kinktober prompts #smut #as the seasons grey #like blood from a stone #love is not enough #eerie inhabitants #kink tumblr #kink tw #fic writing #fic woes #text #fanfic

[neon-vocalist]

hey fic writers who write their whole fic before publishing it. what do you do when it’s multichapter

i have a fic that’s gonna be like. multiple chapters. but i’m a ‘write in advance’ type of person so idk what to do with breaking it up when it comes time to post

#fanfiction #fanfic #fic woes #fic writing #ao3

[echo-the-fae]

Ah yes my life as a fan fic writer

[A photo of my laptop containing my files filled with different fanfic i have yet to complete] did i do that right?

#fanfic #fic woes #my fic #fic wip #fic writing #i have so many ideas

[capobegone]

Me when I spend 8 hours writing today’s chapter but it’s so late in the day that the upload gets magically teleported beneath everything else uploaded today on the AO3 tags

Anyway it’s out guys haha just buried <3 Have a scrunk Sanemi for your troubles

#fic woes #the tide of fate #shinazugawa sanemi #demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba