I Cant Risk It, I Love Writing And Drawing Too Much

#55, 56 and 71 for the fic writer's asks, please!

alrighty!

55 - Of all the characters you wrote for, who's your favorite/has that been swayed by readers reactions?

that would probably be my BLU Medic tf2 oc, Kasper! back when i was writing the first version of my first fic, i kinda made him a crybaby? i guess? i don't like how my writing was back then, and ive improved and i can't wait to write him again! but better.

56 - What's something about your writing that you pride yourself on?

probably my detail and ability to elaborate on things! i really like going into detail and worldbuilding.

71 - How do you keep track of story elements in complicated narratives?

i just create a separate google doc (cause i don't like the writing format on ao3) with important bullet points about characters, events, etc. also, i wing literally everything. all that i have "planned out" before i write a fic is just the plot and some vague ideas. i actually write in my head. like, i think of different story beats that could possibly happen next and then i write them down, and i edit them in my head too. it's a very funky puzzle to me.

thank you for your ask!!! =]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

Spread the word🖤🖤🖤🖤

i have no idea what that is but my interest has been piqued, and if you like, could you maybe tell me more?

hello would you like to yap with me

Yes I would love to!!

Witchcraft, Wisdom, Death...

wahoo

inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.

real

“oh yes, i am very reasonable and normal about this subject!!”

*proceeds to mass reblog any related content*

btw this was supposed to be a finale piece for a 5 day series (leading up to christmas) where i would draw things associated with the lords in black, but i completely lost motivation on day one and now that motivation has hit me now, so i’ll probably do the rest of the lib leading up to new years =p

currently drawing the worst(s) ever

all hail HAPPY BIRTHDAY WIGGLY!!!!

crazy how two of my favorite fictional characters birthdays fall on christmas (those two characters are melvin sneed sneedley and wiggog y’wrath)

likes to charge, reblogs to cast