Writing Is 10% Actual Writing And 90% Staring At The Screen, Questioning Your Life Choices And Googling

Comment on fanfics

A few days back on AO3 I found an unfinished, two chapter spideypool fanfic that was cute and had lots of potential and was also last updated two years ago. Two whole years! And it had only three comments, all of which on chapter one, none on chapter two. I enjoyed the fanfic, despite it being far, FAR from being finished and the chance of it ever updating again anytime soon was just about zero. So you know what I did?

I wrote a damn comment. On chapter two.

And I made sure that fucker was long and had a small theory of where I think the author would take the fanfic in the future. I let the person behind the fic know that I friggin LOVED the two chapters I got to read! That I would LOVE to see more! That I’d jump out of my skin in happiness and virtually hug them half to death if I saw that they updated it.

Let me remind you this fic wasn’t updated in two YEARS! I was the first to comment on it in a year. And the first to comment on chapter two! And you know what happened today?

I got a reply.

From the author of the fanfic. And the author said how I gave them life for a project they had loved (still did) and that they were now working on a third chapter. After two YEARS of not updating. Of not writing. And it makes me so friggin happy seeing what I did. What I caused.

With a single. Damn. Comment.

All that it took for me was to think a bit about what I wanted to tell the author and the comment it. All it took was one comment. And suddenly this person was inspired to continue a fanfic they had abandoned for TWO YEARS!!

I couldn’t be happier. I couldn’t be more proud.

Comment on people’s fanfics. No matter how few chapters there are. No matter how many years have passed since their last update. Comment. You like a fanfic? Comment on it. It’s that easy.

Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle

Human: Deal.

Fey: Very well. When you return home tonight, your mother will be in pristine health again. It will be like she never fell ill at all. Even the memory of her suffering will fade…

Human: Thank you so much. She means everything to me.

Fey: I know, I know. Let’s hope the price wasn’t too much for you after all… Only time will tell.

Human: So, when do we start?

Fey: …If I may ask you to elaborate?

Human: You said you wanted my firstborn.

Fey: Yes? And you agreed?

Human: Yeah, so, when do we start?

Fey:

Fey, blushing: Ah.

Diario de Escrita (Wrinting Diary) #1

Oii, como vai? Hoje não tem capítulo novo, mas não quer dizer que eu não produzi. Vocês sabem que eu tenhho um projeto sobre ajuda para escritores, certo? Eu decidi recomeça-lo atravez de assinaturas pelo Patreon e alguns posts gratuítos aqui no tumblr também. E foi isso que me fez escrever bastante essa semana. O tema foi Premissa e Tema, conceitos essenciais para se escrever um livro. Enquanto eu preparava o post e organizava as ideias, me peguei analisando qual era a minha motivação para escrever, percebendo que eu tinha deixado isso de lado. O que me fez lembrar porque eu ainda estou aqui depois de mais de dez anos, ainda escrevendo e criando novas histórias.

A verdade é que eu sou muito... bem, é dificil para mim entrar em contato com minhas emoções e tem certas experiencias que eu não estou disposta a ter na vida real, além de querer investigar a mente humana. Como uma pessoa aromantica e assexual, escrita é meu refugio e minha terapia. Eu escrevo sobre coisas que nunca vou viver, sobre coisas que eu vi em outros lugares, coisas que eu sinto e coisas que eu gostaria de viver, mas que por causa da minha dificuldade social sei que nunca vou chegar lá.

Esse é o motivo desse post, para discutir e armanezar esses meus pensamento, principalmente sobre escrita, para divulgar sobre o que eu dedico meu tempo e para contar um pouco mais sobre mim, para também me fazer lembrar porque eu ainda insisto na escrita e porque eu provavelmente nunca vou desistir. E claro, eu gostaria de convidar vocês a participar do meu Patreon, onde nessa proxima semana vou começar a apresentar informações de como escrever livros narrativos. Espero ver vocês por lá (se você sabe ler em português).

Hi, what's going on? Today I don't have a new chapter, but that doesn't mean I didn't write anything. You know that I have a project about helping writers, right? I decided to restart it through Patreon subscriptions and some free posts here on tumblr as well. And that's what got me writing a lot this week. The theme was Premise and Theme, essential concepts for writing a book. While I was preparing the post and organizing my ideas, I found myself analyzing what my motivation for writing was, realizing that I had put it aside. Which reminded me why I'm still here after more than ten years, still writing and creating new stories.

The truth is that I'm very… well, it's hard for me to get in touch with my emotions and there are certain experiences I'm not willing to have in real life, apart from wanting to investigate the human mind. As an aromantic and asexual person, writing is my refuge and my therapy. I write about things I'll never experience, things I've seen elsewhere, things I feel and things I'd like to experience, but because of my social difficulties I know I'll never get there.

That's the reason for this post, to discuss and organize my thoughts, mostly about writing, to share what I dedicate my time to and to tell you a little more about myself, to also remind me why I still insist on writing and why I'll probably never give up. And of course, I'd like to invite you to join my Patreon, where next week I'll start presenting information on how to write narrative books. I hope to see you there (if you can read Portuguese).

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“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

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

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Growing up with your starters

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I find very funny how in the books, they (Rick) tried so hard to sell Annabeth as the perfect match for Percy, and then they tried really hard to make the couple seen as the goal in relationships matter, AND THEN RICK GOES AND GIVES US NICO DI ANGELO. You know, the 13 year old who took Percy to the Styx so he heightened the chances that he wouldn't DIE, the 13 yo who turn on his father, A GOD, the second Hades tried to hurt Percy, the solid reason why they didn't die in the battle of Manhattan in the first place AND HIS SOLID MOTIVATION WAS THAT HE DIDN'T WANT PERCY TO DIE, all this poor kid wants is for Percy to live, and he goes to extremes to garantee this, even if Percy hate him afterwards, at least he's make sure he'll survive. Nico wasn't even with the Olympians, he was on Percy's side, and Percy just so happen to be on the Olympians side, I'm fully convinced that If Percy have had said "Fuck it" in BotL and just told Nico to just turn around and fight along Kronos with him (cofcof), Nico would had done it, he hadn't even meet Hades yet.