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[onwriting-hrarby]

Bon dia! 🙂 14, 45 and 83 for the ask game?

Hola, hola! Thank you very much for the questions, hehe <3

14. what's your worst writing habit

I don't know if it refers to the process or something that I do in my prose that could be considered a habit... For the latter, I would say that I tend to make sentences too long and redundant. I could probably edit a bit and trim here and there, but it's also part of my style—which makes my writings difficult to read, or "more demanding"—. And for the former... Maybe that I tend to overthink too much? Even if I plan, I always end up second-guessing my planning...

45. any writing advice you want to share?

Do not listen to the readers! Especially if you write online and are not paid. Sometimes we tend to get stuck into the (often unsolicited) opinions we receive in our writings about how it should have been written. I'm not talking about fair criticism, like pointing out bad habits and such, but like "Oh, I would have made character A do this thing instead of...". And while this can be very useful when received during an editing process, once it's set and done, or once it's YOUR story you want to tell, I don't see how we should change in regards to who's reading us.

I wanted to do a little essay about this, but I think there are certain fandoms where writers were influenced by the discourse online. Like Sherlock, or High School Musical (The Series), and the character development ended up having zero sense, often invalidating the psychological progress the character had done until then.

So: write your story, however you want to write it. Someone will fall in love with it. Do not let anyone tell you how you should have written the story that's yours. Everyone can pick up a piece of paper and pen.

83. less is more or more is more?

in the writing process, more is more. in the editing process, less is more. and in the marketing phase, to my view, also less is more.

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[liquorisce]

WIP challenge

Tagged by: @brokenangelwings22

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs. You can make your own post or reblog this one! This isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? DND campaigns? If you have an unfinished project, it counts!!

Thanks for tagging me, bestie! Sorry it took a while to answer this omg, I cannot honestly write down all of them, but I will do my best!

EREMIKA

Valentine's Day

Photograph

graduation present

bring your love baby (i could bring my shame)

forget me, mikasa

this thing of darkness (bdsm au)

forgive me, father (priest au)

the perfect woman

if we weren't born broken (i would have loved you)

fate, my enemy

something borrowed (secretary au)

i've a longing that's killing me

a drop in the ocean

party favour

the day i was born

someone i loved

EREMIKAZEKE

matters of the heart

my greatest treasure

the day i was born

someone i loved

ARUANI

second place (governess au)

the deal (vamp au)

you've never done anything but betray me

LEVI-CENTRIC

the heart of a soldier

AOT GEN

college diaries

HISTORIA - GEN

cold winds

YUMIHISU

the hills

ICHIHIME [bleach]

it's different now

plastic crowns

KYORU [fruits basket]

a heavy heart

i dont even think this is all of it I'm awful T_T

anyway i am not nearly social enough to tag these many ppl lmao so I will do my best!! tagging @sunlightandsuffering @irememberthedark @warholes @mirrorsswhisper @raebelle @milkbloodheat @heartvu @onwriting-hrarby @r-brauns @anniemika @tinylethlogica POST UR WIPS U HOES!!

@annluvazzel tagging u as well, since this doesn't only apply to writing :P

#wip #eremika #i am just so inconsistent it is not even funny bye

[sunlightandsuffering]

Hello to answer Anon question about the fic about Eren and Mikasa meeting while she’s dating Jean and over 10 years they falll in love, have beach and cabin sex it’s one of Hrarby’s fic’s! Although she sadly took it down because assholes have b en stealing her work…

Oh yeah that sounds correct to me! Yeah, sometimes works are so special that when that happens u just want to take it down and keep it ur own which is honestly fair!

[onwriting-hrarby]

Hi Hera! I love scrolling through your blog and I think you have excellent taste. Are there any eremika fics you would recommend? I feel like I’ve read them all :(

Anon, thank you very much for your sweet words! <3

Oh, my. I'm afraid it's been a while since I have read any EM fics, but let me see what I can do for you! I have been preaching some of them out and forever, but maybe you haven't read them or I find them very underappreciated, so I'll repeat again. The problem is that I am almost always more in favour of reading Eremika + another person involved heheh. So let me try to find you solely underappreciated, underrated, underread eremika works.

Two Sides of a Coin by Mea_S: I always preach about this one and for good reason. I think it's the best EM fic I've ever read :') There's also a sequel. Mikasa and Eren are broken people and I just love the psychological aspect of the fic, how they use sex to dissociate, how incredibly well the trauma is explained, and their past. It's one of the best EM fics out there, and completely underrated.

A year to remember by kasei_van: I think this one was one of the first fics I read while joining the fandom! It's a cute read about modern EM in university. Perfect for an iced tea and summer afternoon.

Stars Above and Below by SamNotAm: This might not be underrated and you might know the author with "Green Velvet" or "Letters Between Us", but I feel like this story (not only because I help the author beta-ing) is very well crafted in the plot, and definitely a step forward in their prose.

Washed-Up and Rundown by spoilerarlelt: You might know the author with "How to Coexist", but I was so entranced by that story and realized it wasn't finished that I dug onto the depths of the Internet only to find out that the author's got an FF AND has another story COMPLETED! And it's mY FAVOURITE of them because they feature Levi as a guardian of Mikasa. Amazing, heartstopping.

Lake by the ocean by Breezysays: You might know the author for "Evergreen", but this story I feel it's more mature, not canon, and a little bit more angsty. I love how they write, and it's long (unfinished still) so you have a lot to enjoy if you like them!

Now, if you're alright with other ships + eremika, I can always hit you up with recommendations in which Eremika is present but either Eren or Mikasa have also things going on with someone else (Armin, Jean, Historia, Sasha...) (although mainly it's Mikasa + someone for me). I know a lot of people are only Eremika purely and solely and that's so very fine, but I personally read everything and anything with a good plot (not caring about ships...), so if you'd like to investigate a little, I'm always open to that.

Also, if you enjoy smut, and I suppose you might follow them because they are the bomb and deserve all the praise, I recommend reading the drabbles of @liquorisce, @irememberthedark, @mirrorsswhisper and @sunlightandsuffering.

If you end up liking "Two Sides of the Coin", also don't forget to check @nina-bean's writings because there are a lot of things that converge: incredible prose, mature characters and ways to find a solution to it, psychological aspects and good introspection.

AND you can always check my bookmarks in AO3 (but remember that I am not only an Eremika shipper. You can filter the relationships in there, also the ratings, and just skip everything you don't want to read in case you're not comfortable with it, please. Proceed with caution.)

#eremika #eren jaeger #mikasa ackerman #aot fanfiction #attack on titan fanfiction #recommendations #fic #fic rec #hrarby answers

[onwriting-hrarby]

You should take this test to see which character is your best match personality wise. When you're finished you can switch to other fandoms and see other ones

https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/characters/

(Example https://www.tumblr.com/happybird16/715165442912780288/important-new-quiz?source=share)

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh anon i love this! Let me show you the results:

I gotta say I was thinking Erwin or Levi, but actually my results looked like this: Armin, Erwin, Mikasa, Levi hehhehe I quite like it, overall!

Other fandoms were: Monica from Friends (71% match), Jessica Day (74%) and... Frank Connor from Succession????? (That, I admit, was a disappointment)

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[onwriting-hrarby]

could we get a spoiler or hint for rj next chapter in regards to the change of development youve made with eremika?

heheehe of course!

spoiler!

so my first idea was that eren is too afraid that he messes it up, and basically tells mikasa that he's not ready for a relationship. BUT under further consideration and writing of the chapter, it didn't work because i feel like eren and mikasa would always speak their mind from then on, so it wouldn't make sense that eren would be keeping that away from her. problems will still come in their relationship, but not just AFTER she's confessed everything to him.

so, a little rough spoiler-snippet:

“But—we are dating?”

He doesn’t know what to answer. He wants to date her—has always wanted to. Eren remembers the day she met this girl in the sandbox and he remembers how bright she smiled and he remembers how much he liked to play his prince. He remembers Mikasa entering his school, and the path to the orphanage, and the ice cream on the corner of his old street. Eren remembers—as much as he wants to forget—the insults, the snickering, the hurt. She will always remember, too. For a moment, he wants to let her go—wants to be the hero, make her safe from the mess this can be.

But Eren remembers Mikasa, too, hating him. He remembers her not talking to him, not even looking him in the eye as they’ve reunited. The way her jabs hurt if she wants, and she has set her boundaries straight. He remembers how direct she was on the bar after Marco’s funeral, and, most of all, he remembers her softness and all the contradiction that she is.

He doesn’t need to save her from himself because she knows where she stands.

And in this standing, despite her hurt, Mikasa is choosing him.

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[onwriting-hrarby]

Hera !! 🖤 2, 17, and 20 for the deep fic asks?? 🥰

Helena :') That you're asking me feels like I've done something good today and this is kind of payback! I adore your stories, and I always reread them.

2. what's a fic that took you to an emotional/dark/hard place?

I tend not to write from experience much. Not because I don't like it, but because I conceive writing stories as an extension of something I could have lived, but haven't. Even so, it's inevitable that my beliefs, my own personal experiences or my ideals sweep through. In that sense, maybe the most emotional was "I did not live until today", because of the whole issue of divorce parents and Mikasa's dad moving on. Her feelings of rejection and abandonment—and sometimes, incapability of forgiving—were very much based on my own, but exaggerated.

17. What’s the best engagement/interaction/feedback you’ve received from someone who’s read your work?

I am so thankful to receive incredible long comments and encouragement, always! I tend to even screenshot some of them for when I have a bad day or I want to abandon that fanfic, hehe. The two that come to mind now are from "Instead, they said", where someone commented that they weren't really fans of fanfiction, but someone had recommended to them and that it read like a novel (so many things to unpack here, but I was really happy for that). The other was in "Rotten Judgement", a long comment about someone thanking me for writing and commenting how the fic helped them in real life, also to reconcile with the politics of their country and think they can still fight. That was amazing, because part of the politics of RJ are inspired in our own political issues in my country.

20. What’s the greatest gift you’ve gotten from your writing?

The joy, I think. The silence, too. My own space, the room of one's own.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING <3

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[onwriting-hrarby]

hi hera, im sorry you’re feeling this way. please dont ever say you’re not good enough because trust me girlie you literally write some of my favourite pieces of fanfiction ive ever read. you got this hera, dont doubt your skills because ur incredible!! and even if your mind tells you there isnt, you dooo have a wholeass fanbase who want to hear your stories!! ♥️🤩

anon :') thank you very much for those words of encouragement. i just think that january was an incredible month for me creative-wise, and now i'm kinda stuck <3 and i'm juggling so many wips, i think i'm that type of person who has to write JUST one thing and then move to the other, otherwise my mind gets confused and i can't find the tone in anything i write.

thank you very much for your words, i'm so sorry to be such a negative sap! <3

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[onwriting-hrarby]

rotten judgement - snippet #3

But then, she sees it—the way he takes his hand up, and takes Historia’s cheek, and runs his thumb along the skin, tenderly, familiar. For some seconds, Mikasa can feel the thumb on her skin, too—and she flinches, puts a hand up on her cheek to discover that the ghost touch was only a memory. 

Her cheek wonders. Her mind remembers.

Her sudden movement has startled Eren and he turns his face to her, hand falling from Historia’s cheek. The past hits him like a whiplash—sweet and painful. Sorrow tinged with love. Mikasa tries to recompose himself, but Eren knows, and he looks at his hand, at the thumb that just caressed some skin, and suddenly, he can feel Mikasa’s teenager skin over his palm, again and again, he memorized the cheekbones, the angular jaw, the rough mark of her scar.

His hand tingles. His mind hopes.

****

Her sudden movement has startled Eren and he turns his face to her, hand falling from Historia’s cheek. The past hits him like a whiplash—sweet and painful. Sorrow tinged with love. Mikasa tries to recomposure himself, but Eren knows, and he looks at his hand, at the thumb that just caressed some skin, and suddenly, he can feel Mikasa’s teenager skin over his palm, again and again, he memorized the cheek bones, the angular jaw, the rough mark of her scar.

His hand tingles. His mind hopes.

i think this might be one of the paragraphs i've written in rotten judgement that i like the most :____

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[onwriting-hrarby]

hi hera, im rewriting this ask because my internet was slow and i dont know if it was sent thru 😭😭

im so in my feels i’ve been rereading a bit of IDNLUT, and its really so heartbreaking that mikasas dad had the shitty conscious to completely leave his family for another. it aches my heart to read whenever in mikasas pov the pain and insecurities she carried everytime she mentions or is reminded that her dad abandoned their little family for a white woman and their white child.

i feel really bad for mama sakura, the strength in the women under these situations is just insane. her husband didnt just leave her, he abandoned a whole ass child, his own daughter!!

in the fic mikasa is gradually reconciling with her father, and good for her and her peace but i dont know how she does it!! its so hard to wrap my head around characters like john, like hes playing God and just like nothing switching which woman and which child gets to be in the presence of his loving tender father/husband role. like its horrible, personally its unforgivable to me because the children in mikasa role are just left with so much trauma and thats so so unfair because why did their dad choose to hurt them and not the other.

(its so heartbreaking, i really want to hold IDNLUT baby mika)

i was wondering but only if you’re up for it 👉👈 would you be interested in writing a drabble or perhaps explaining a little more in detail:

1. john ackermans pov in the rawest honest form on why he had left his family for another. his desires, his selfishness and his regrets. (im trying to sympathise with him but its so hard 😅)

2. and if, whether he denies it or not, racism or racial preference had a role in his actions. (im asian, so i get it, theres an unfortunate beauty standard engraved in our minds and white women have that privilege)

(also when i think about it, IDNLUT john ackermans and RJ grisha somewhat plays the same role right?)

3. as a white man, does john ackerman acccctuallly understand mikasas insecurities and pain. especially racially, can he see mikasas perspective, does he get that mikasa sees her dad having a racial preference by leaving her asian mom and her for a white woman and her white child. (im just wondering if john actually evaluates the consequences of his actions, and that hes just not feeling bad and thats it lol (maybe i also just want to see the man in pain for the pain he caused his (our) favourite girl 🥺)

4. in this au, would mikasa ever fully lash out at her dad, like a full blownout confrontation or a full conversation where she lays eeeeverything, her hurt her pain her childhood trauma he caused her and her mother, i wonder if she demands answers and if hes able to give her them. (hehe would you ever write this as a drabble? but i would respect it if you dont want to!!)

i loooove this fic, thank you for sharing it with us. and sorry my ask is so long!!

Alright, dear anon, finally I have some time to delve into this. So, what can I say? I saw this ask first on Monday and it completely made my day. Not only to receive such a nice comment, but also from a reread and also from i did not live until today! I always worry my stories are not enough to make people want to reread (which is what I do with things i like a lot) so this anon made my heart flutter.

i'm so glad you pointed out to this flaw in mikasa's character. i got a lot of people who read the fic who didn't like how mikasa treated her dad and how her insecurities affected her life in general, and didn't like mikasa's character very much. i understand this happens because she's not an agreeable character, and we sometimes hate that she's so self-centered, especially towards sakura, because she only wants what's best for her. but people who grief are normally self-centered, so i wanted to delve into that and not make the protagonist be like a heroin. i'm so glad you feel for her and share her pov, really, justifice for mikasa!

you're right that grisha in RJ and john might be alike, but i think the difference in john is that he really fell in love with his new wife, and left the family because of love, and not so much because of prejudice. as you say, prejudice is very much there, although i don't think john is really aware of it—like an unconscious pull—and it's much more of something that mikasa projects. because i always tell everything from mikasa's pov, i play a lot with an unreliable narrator (not that "evident" though).

i don't think parents choose to hurt us purposefully. of course, it would be better for mikasa's health if the parents had stayed together under good circumstances, but when the circumstances are bad, or the love doesn't sweep through, believe me, it's better to divorce (both my boyfriend and me come from divorce parents, and our experience is very different, so i know both outcomes). in the end, growing up makes us realize that parents are their own people—they do not live to serve our wishes. they live to protect us, to make us grow, but we cannot submit them, i believe. when we are parents, we don't transform int just parents. we do not become different from what we were, we don't lose our personality or wishes. some wishes are not compatible with being parents, of course—but love is. and if someone doesn't find love in the parent they have around, we're people, and it's better to be a family if there is love and respect. at least that's what i thought and what i wanted to express!

okay, so onto your questions! i am going to drabble point 1, so let me go straight to the others (i don't know WHEN i'm going to write it, so please, bear with me, i'll upload it!)

2) whether he denies it or not, racism or racial preference had a role in his actions > as i said, i didn't plan john to be aware of it like grisha is. grisha does have inherent racism in it, and some of the decisions are very evident steeping from there. but john is not aware, even, that race might exist. i don't know if that makes sense. grisha would see sakura and see the race, while john doesn't really see it, but he still has a preference for the other because the other is "better". does it make sense? in that sense, john would be equivalent to Eren in RJ when he was a teenager (but without the violence that accompanies Eren). It's as if John had to pick between salad or soup, and he's been always told that salad is better. he doesn't really care about the difference between salad and soup, but he feels slightly pulled towards salad because of the discourse about salad and how good salad is. he also likes soup, but he can't say why he would prefer salad. i think a lot of racism nowadays is like this: people know racism is wrong, and they wouldn't care to be with someone from another race but they are still attracted to white people every time.

3) as a white man, does john ackerman actually understand mikasas insecurities and pain > he doesn't, no! also because a lot of issues from mikasa don't directly come from race, and the ones that do i feel like he might not really understand them because again he doesn't recognize his preference. but he knows that a lot of the issues that mikasa has are because of him leaving, and i remember that at some point they even talk it out! so he does feel guilty towards it.

4. in this au, would mikasa ever fully lash out at her dad, like a full blownout confrontation or a full conversation where she lays everything> oh, i will definitely drive it as a drabble! i will try to mix it with the 1st one. she definitely would. as i said, i think they touch the subject but i don't believe there's a full lash out! i picture mikasa after some years (before she goes to mitras with eren) talking it out with her dad, but calmly. i believe eren allows mikasa to open like a dam, so she knows how to express her feelings. mikasa's growth in IDNLUT i believe is about accepting the feelings and growing communication!

AGAIN i am so so so happy about your ask, and please do NOT hesitate to send me another one with your thoughts on this (if you have any) or if you were reading my work another way! i don't want to influence on your reading as an author, so do not fret if something wasn't as you were thinking: i love that everyone makes my work theirs!

#i did not live until today #eremika #eremika fic #fanfiction #attack on titan #hrarby answers

[onwriting-hrarby]

Any spoiler of RJ 👀👀👀?

hehehe i just spoiled an eremika moment in the other anon, but let me introduce you to JEAN KIRSTEIN'S REALIZATION

And maybe that’s the problem—he would want to tell Marco. That he always thought he could be better than what he is. If not selfish, a better man. So that the ashes wouldn’t regret his choices. But he’s powerless against something so big. What can the difference of one man make?

There is also another thought crawling inside of him.

Jean tries not to dwell on it and stands from the couch. It is night, but he hasn’t eaten. Connie is still at the café and Eren had dinner with his mum. Jean’s tempted to either go down to Connie or go across the hallway—Mikasa and Historia might be home, and they might cook something, and he can feel whole for some minutes, forget said thought. But, in the end, Jean thinks it’s better to think on it—he likes to go around it, as if the thought was a sticky hard candy, and his tongue would lap at it and make it roll in his mouth and savour the suspicion.

In the stove, Jean puts some chicken broth in a pot, lets it boil and simmer before adding some noodles. The suspicion it’s clear, yes: it’s the kind of realization that only comes when one goes back in time, and relives every moment spent with a person. Jean focuses on the Jean of the past, sees himself as if through a camera lens and tries to explain to the viewer how this old Jean is acting—how his eyes melt around a person, how his smile focuses on them, how much he blushes.

But to accept the suspicion would mean to break everything he’s known he is.

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[onwriting-hrarby]

hey! im usually a silent reader who doesn't interact much but def read your works, i've always been such a huge fan since "i did not live until today" and i love RJ just as much if not even more!! you've always been one of my favourite authors, you literally never disappoint, if anything your work only gets better and better.. feeling unmotivated sometimes is totally normal, i believe that a lot of readers including me can't wait for the next chapter, but please take your time and don't overwork yourself!! i love you<3

...dear anon, thank you very much for this and the encouragement! I understand silent readers a lot, so don't worry about not commenting. I am most worried about how some not-silent commenters are not engaging as much! But I know I'm just projecting, and everyone has a busy life (me included).

I won't upload today, finally, because I have a lot of work and I couldn't finish the chapter, so I hope you can wait another week.

It made me so happy to know that one can see some development in my writing. I thank you a lot, truly.

(Maybe I'll post a snippet soon, though!)

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[onwriting-hrarby]

Hi ,hope you’re doing well

U have no idea how much I’ve been waiting for this chapter , I haven’t been able to read it yet because of work , but I just know I’m gonna love it.

I understand how much time it took you to write that chapter and no one can deny how much work u put into it , I can’t imagine working 10 h straight on anything tbh , your dedication is on another level . So it’s totally normal to feel drained and unmotivated sometimes and as much as I would feel sad if the story is left unfinished , at the end of the day it’s your choice so if u feel like u wanna abandon it for a while or even definitively just do it , to me as long as you’re happy and thriving in life it doesn’t matter , ur literally so nice u deserve the world . So please do whatever u feel like doing , take a break from time to time , it’s literally summer break rn u gotta enjoy it spend some time with friends and family , don’t make this story a priority and feel like you’re obliged to finish it or even Upload it every week or so , please take your time with it , u gotta write because u want to write not because u have to and take as many breaks as you want , doing something u like shouldn’t feel like a chore .

Ur such a talented writer , u delivered so many amazing chapters and stories so far and I can’t thank you enough for sharing this with us , again take care of yourself and have an amazing day , see u soon hopefully 💜

Dear anon, thank you very much for these amazing words. As always, it' just that I am struggling with priorities and ambition. If I only had to write fanfiction, it would be alrifht, but I still have to dedicate myself to the novel, because I want to do something with that.

Writing has always felt like a chore to me! I have never done it just leisurely: i have wanted to be a writer since I was 10. So even when I'm writing fanfiction, although I know it won't make me famous, I treat like a chore or a habit because it's my way to behave with writing. However, I'm trying not to be so pressed with myself, and let it flow more. I get very motivated when I get comments, too, because it feels like my writing is going "somewhere", since I know my "literary" writing probably won't, and that motivates me to do better in fanfiction too (despite the self-pressure).

I thank you very very very much for the encouragement, and think that it truly makea me happy and it pushes me to keep on releasing chapters, however the struggle. You're all so nice to me, and I feel so grateful! 💞

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[onwriting-hrarby]

omgg yes pls!! can't wait for you to upload ch13!!

Thank you! I've decided to upload it today! I am doing it as we speak! You'll find the link in a very short while <3

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[onwriting-hrarby]

dear anon with the ask about IDNLUT: I will wait to have just a tad of time to ask because you totally made my day (and here it' 7 am!) with your amazing comment and questions/proposals! I want to write a drabble for you too :') So thank you for this incredible inbox, and let me get back to you with good material!

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[onwriting-hrarby]

Hi ! Hope you’re doing well

I’ve read your last on writing and literally anxiety does make your life harder .

You’re totally right about how stats and comments do not define your worth as a writer , sure there will be many stories who get more coms and kudos , but definitely only one story like RJ , from the unique concept of it to the rich dialogue, the amazing characterization , the structure of the story, the topics discussed, the plot…, and all of that is all your doing and only possible because of your dedication to writing 83k words , spending hours on each chapter, discussing sensitive topics in a mindful and clever way , giving all of the characters justice , and also the fact that you make a bunch of strangers all around the world happy every time you upload , without forgetting all your past and future writings and projects , and the whole novel that you’re writing (which I would love to hear more about , it’s fascinating) and juggling with life at the same time ,while it’s also definitely worth mentioning that all of those writings when English is not even your second but third language is just impressive, so yeah stats can never do you justice .

sure coms and kudos are important and always nice but I’ve read so many amazing stories and was baffled at the small amount of interactions it got , but does that change the fact that the story was still amazing and that the author is talented , No . So keeping that mindset would definitely help , wether people decide to read your story or not , or leave comments should not be keeping you up at night and it surely doesn’t define you as a writer . and you can always upload during the day if u want so that way you can busy yourself with stuff in order to avoid checking the stats instead of losing sleep over it , ur mental and physical health is top priority.

Also have fun and enjoy your holidays, sending you lots of love , and thank you for the latest chapter it’s always a blessing when you upload , take care of yourself and have an amazing day 💜

oh my god, i almost teared up. nvm, i did, i did. i am quite speechless, i don't know what to say. first, i want to thank you very much for your continued support (i think i can tell who you are, or the same anon, with your writing!). you're too nice, and too supporting, and you leave me gasping for air everytime you write to me. thank you very much for your sweet words and the encouragement.

I have this terrible luck where I get many commenters, and all of them are sweet, and incredible. I have yet to receive hate in my commenting, although granted I have received some comments here and there, but mostly, I think without your comments and encouragement I wouldn't feel so confident and motivated to keep around. Kudos and hits are a number, in my mind. It's only natural that I want to achieve that many numbers, but in the end, what truly motivates me are the comments, because I see that the story is arriving somewhere. I would upload during the day, but I normally edit in the afternoon, so I get a little bit stressed if I should do it during the morning (that I want to solely dedicate to writing).

So, in the end: Thank you. Always, for leaving your supporting comments. It's so nice, and at the same time, I have to be honest and say that it adds just a little bit of pressure! I want to make it good, I want to make it honest. I want you all to arrive at the ending and say: "This whole year was worth it". I am getting sappy and emotional, now. But I don't want to disappoint you all, and that's the greatest fear.

#hrarby answers #the sweetest anon #i am tearing up