Boats Your Notes

I often wonder what happened to authors of unfinished fanfictions.

I hope they’re having a nice life

we absolutely are not and that unfinished fic haunts us to this day

Reblog if that unfinished fic haunts you to this day

This guy knows what he’s talking about. He’s one of the lead writers for Leverage and if you ever watch the series on DVD, do yourself a favor and listen to him talk about how the scripts got written. Some of the advice he has is stuff I use all the time: 1. Don’t introduce an important plot person or thing after the first half of the story. 2. Always tie up loose ends. 3. Introduce important things in the middle of unimportant things. 4. If you have to infodump, find an emotion to tie it to and it will seem less like infodump and more like a motive rant. Seriously this guy knows how to write.

I know a ton of people have said this before but for the love everything PLEASE stop treating AO3 like instagram. It is NOT cringe to comment on an old story. It’s an archive old stories are still meant to be found and read. Please think about interacting with the fic you read: at least kudos if you read it, a comment would be ideal. The authors will be over the moon. I guarantee you not a single author is going to ask why someone is commenting on an older fic.

I LIVE for my morning "You've got kudos" email. I have to fan myself if there's a comment.

ITS NEVER TOO LATE TO FINISH THAT FIC!!!

This is so inspiring and uplifting.

three days ago I got an ao3 subscription update email and the author’s note on the chapter said they’d come back and written chapter ten SIXTEEN YEARS after chapter nine was published, so, never fear to hit that subscribe button folks

It took Stephen King 26 YEARS to write the next chapter of one of his Dark Tower books

LEAVE THAT COMMENT. Even if the fic is old. You never know who’s listening, or if your words are exactly the little push that author needs to take a trip down memory lane and remember all the wonderful things that inspired them to write the fic in the first place. Think about it, Reader. YOU could be the person that RESURRECTS THAT FIC!

have not seen anything more relatable today >.<

gonna just put this on all my blogs for anyone who needs to see it as NaNo approaches

unstoppable force (sudden fic ideas) vs. immovable object (adult responsibilities)

me, being beaten in the town square for content: wait i can use this as whump research

terrible news. the exact fanfiction i want has not magically appeared and i may have to write it myself. more at 11

imagine leaving academia to live in the woods but being so stuck mentally in academic resentments that you send bombs to professors and grad students and spend your time working on a publication

weirdest type of guy in existence is "really smart with a fundamentally warped worldview"

i love it when you read multiple works from a writer and you start being able to pick out the things that stick with them. like the themes they keep thinking about, that can’t be satisfied with just one poem or novel or story. or the motifs they like to reuse and recycle throughout their works like an extradiagetic thread. it’s like drawing a map through a writer’s collection of all the things that keep them up at night

#also #to writers: you're ALLOWED TO DO THIS #you're allowed to use motifs and themes as much as you want #you can use them again to say something new #you can twist them from how you've used them before #you can do WHATEVER YOU WANT #I can't tell you how many authors (of fic and not!fic) #that I keep coming back to because I'm like: oh this writer is going to be soft about x #or this writer is going to lean heavy into found family #or this writer is going to gut punch me with the emotional intimacy #love your brand kids #love your motifs #love your themes (via @itwaswhileyouweresleeping)

YOU. YOU GET IT.