Tag: writing

josephjtoye:

you could be sad about your otp but consider:

  • one making awful breakfast for the other and the other eating it because they appreciate it that much
  • one putting their ridiculous music on in the car and singing along while the other sits in the passenger seat with their head in their hands
  • the two of them going down to the beach and one getting sunburned really badly so the other slathers them with aloe gel when they get home
  • one getting home from work later than the other and stretching out on top of them like a big lazy cat while they sit on the couch in front of the tv
  • one inexplicably bringing home an animal and refusing to drop it at the shelter so they and the other have to take care of it
  • the both of them going out to a park and getting ice cream to sit with and eat on a bench
  • one sending memes to the other while they’re at work so much they turn their phone off in exasperation
  • one giving the other their jacket and not getting it back from the other until it stops smelling like them

purge-that-urge-rhackathon:

tassosss:

howlnatural:

the most fun thing about being a fic author is when you know what’s supposed to happen but when you go to write it you realise that, for the event to be plausible, you need to add another 2k of development and establish like six extra things before you can even get to the scene you need to write, and by ‘most fun’ I mean fuck everything someone take this fucking story away from me I’m on strike

truth

THIS!! This is why it’s so goddamn hard and time-consuming and drives me nuts and I lose sleep and spend HOURS writing the precursor to The Fun Thing to make plausibility and god forbid I want a damn sentence in return for my mental effort once the story is uploaded and fuck writing is HARD and FRUSTRATING. It can be so damn easy sometimes but writing fictional plausibility without breaking someone’s suspension of disbelief (which I suggest anyone unfamiliar with the phrase to google) while they read can make you want to burn the whole damn thing down and god I’m so so tired.

It took me 20k+ words to get to the smut in Shamefully Yours. The smut originally started 5 pages in. I HAD TO ADD PLOT AND BACKSTORY TO MAKE THE SMUT WORK *dies*

Updated Library For Kinksters

dominantlife:

I completed some major changes to the Library For Kinksters. Here is the update…

Aftercare

Consent

Doms, Daddies & Masters

Littles, Subs & Slaves

Long Distance Relationships

Mental Health

Relationships

Safety

Self Improvement

Sex

Toys

Training

Resources For Writing Sketchy Topics

get-the-cheese-to-sickbay:

wordsnstuff:

Medicine

Writing Specific Characters

Illegal Activity

Black Market Prices & Profits

Forensics

On how many watch lists did you end up after compiling all of this information, op? 😂

rainbowrowell:

rainbowrowell:

doubledecks:

“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down

YES. THANK YOU! This is why it bothers me so much when people call fic “porn.”

I’ve seen replies like – “yeah, but PWP still exists” – and I’m gonna disagree. PWP can’t exist in fanfiction!* Because the Plot and the character development are already baked in, from canon and from our shared understanding of the characters. Even a fic that’s 100 percent sex is told within existing context of the characters and the canonical story (and often within the context of other fic). Which is the point of writing a sex scene about specific characters. And not just writing about context-free bodies.

*very generally speaking and for the sake of this conversation; I’m sure there are rare exceptions

myhoniahaka:

Quick tips for writing romance

  • Consider what your characters like about each other
  • Compliment their personalities. How can character A help with character B’s weaknesses?
  • Create boundaries
  • Make the characters notice each other’s quirks
  • Have your characters get annoyed by some of their quirks
  • Go slow on getting them together
  • Build trust between characters
  • Give them a life outside of their relationship
  • Let your characters be vulnerable in front of each other
  • Have scenes where they’re helping each other
  • What makes your characters want to stay together?
  • If your romance is a sub-plot, how much attention to they give the other character?
  • What does character A notice about character B?

I didn’t used to understand why authors would be offended over concrit, but then I was telling someone, excitedly, about an AU of mine, and then they suddenly said, “Yeah, but X character wouldn’t act like this, they’d be more like this” following it up by tacking on a passive aggressive, “But this is YOUR AU so you do you”. That completely ruined my good mood. Idk if that was concrit or just rude, though, but I think the point is the same.

ao3commentoftheday:

Constructive criticism (concrit) is given in a way that helps you to improve your story. I don’t see any “improvements” suggested there beyond “don’t write that person like that.” To me, that sounds more like destructive criticism – which isn’t a “thing” but is definitely a feeling. When someone criticises you in a way that just makes you feel utterly destroyed. 

In order for criticism to be constructive, it has to build in some way. It has to help you grow. If all it’s doing is stamping you down, then that person isn’t helping at all. They’re just being a dick.

-Mod Pi

Destructive criticism is most deffintly a thing. Some people are purposely destructive in order to make themselves feel better or feel better about their own work. Some people are just assholes who like hurting others. Others just like tearing down authors because they have no way of being able to write like the author they are criticising so they just attack.