This and can I add when I hit a wall in my fics which is OFTEN instead of going to a robot, I go to a discord server which is also full of writers who are also full of despair because writing is often πππ.
We fucking "talk about it" in a "community" of fellow "people" and that is beautiful. And we say "Can someone look at this fucking doc I can't tell if it's complete garbage that needs launched into the sun and my keyboard privileges should be taken away or if maybe I just looked at it for too long."
And I didn't magically fall into that community, I found it slowly, because I wanted to write and it's hard and lonely to write. And so I joined a fandom event and started a Tumblr and replied to comments and asked in my author's notes if anyone wanted to help beta because I am a lonely, messy disaster who can't grammar. And people did help me because my bad grammar was giving them hives and also they enjoy community and talking about things they love with people who love the same thing.
Does this make sense? Like it's really sad to me because, yeah, I can't imagine writing my super-long fics all alone with no support. You don't have to write with no support. But because I sought human support, I get writing and editing help from beautiful, interesting weirdos who live all over the world and have all kinds of wonderful things and skills to share.
turnnoffyourmind
stormborns
gummygunk
izzy806
kaledo-art
tangentwithtanner
andulkaphoto
theartofmadeline
jbbartram-illu
