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peach4pazzi: i outline longer fics but not oneshots

pbaz7: i have a pretty extensive outline process before i start a series. it usually starts with the au theme and before i start the plot i plan out the characters and their personalities/traits (both positive and negative). once each character has a semi extensive background i then connect how those traits will interact with one another and that’s how the main plot points are established. the only thing i write as i go are smaller filler moments because truthfully if i tried to plan those i’d never get anything out lol

azzibueckers5: I outline too much! If I actually commit to writing a fic (and even if I don't), I always have an idea of how long it will be and what will happen in each chapter. And then before I start fully writing a chapter I find it helpful to have a rough outline of what will happen scene by scene so I can string stuff together more easily. 

soloey: both and both stink

eclipscee: once i start writing all my creativity flies out the window bc im funnelling my energy into sentence making. so i try to make outline before writing, but i always end up feeling stranded and betrayed by my past self for not being specific enough

wecrytogether: i make outlines :)

twostepcherry: outline the general plot and try and outline each chapter, but ultimately figure it out as i go and not restrict myself, so i can add whatever i want if i think of something new and fun :-). 

hcneymooners: write as i go.

teamfueckers: Both. Explained more this in question 14.

33lol: For most of my fics I just write as I go. In doing that I usually will get more ideas of where I want it to go and so sometimes I’ll switch up which parts I write and then connect them.

peach4pazzi: i would never do this

pbaz7: i’ve never deviated from a major plot line because i’d probably have to rework an entire outline which at that point is basically writing a new story. however, i’ve made small adjustments to minor characters or subplots if a majority of readers seem to want something to happen

azzibueckers5: sort of? I’ve definitely never changed up a significant plot line but I have added things that people have brought up, and I've changed scenes based on what might be better received. I also have extended a series (iwkpa) because people wanted more beyond what I had initially planned, but I didn’t change anything. I think it would be extremely unlikely for me to do this simply because I typically have fics planned out fully before I write them, and I’m arrogant and think I know better than the readers because I can see the full vision </3 

soloey: nooo but i have added details that readers have wanted before :) 

eclipscee: people have really only ever requested certain smut scenes/dynamics and tbh i don’t even control / have any clue on what those parts are going to be like until my fingers type them bc I don’t plan them whatsoever. tldr no lol im not that good

wecrytogether: i wouldnt say that i deviate from a plot for my readers, but i do try to add little requests or moments (maybe conversations, or touches) that my readers ask for/predict.

twostepcherry: no never! i only write for myself tbh so i’ll write stuff that literally no one asked for because i wanted it ❤️, and i always have the general idea of the beginning and the end for each story/fic so i don’t deviate from that. 

hcneymooners: very rarely, but i deviate quite a bit to see what i want to see, lol. i'm a mess, which is why i always write with a visual outline/moodboard not a written one.

teamfueckers: I may add subplots here and there, but I don’t ever deviate far from the plot line I have in my head.

33lol: I’m probably an outlier in this group, because I know I can’t commit to a long-form series (for now at least). I just get so distracted and unmotivated. I’ve put out one chapter of an actual series plan I had in my community and then discontinued it because I’m not in the space for something so in depth. But yes, in my lighter mini series I have maybe changed initially what I was thinking or something I was going to add due to requests/comments.

peach4pazzi: i usually force myself to write something. hiding my phone from myself and setting myself up with a fun drink and a blanket helps. of course family fc is the most important thing to happen to me through tumblr, but i have been so lucky to make connections with many more people who are so lovely and impressive in their own right. some of whom would even indulge me in a silly little author’s q&a

pbaz7: sometimes you just need to walk away and give yourself a break for a few days to find that creative spark again. personally i tend to do other hobbies i enjoy and eventually i’ll find myself randomly thinking about a new idea or concept in the middle of doing something else and that lets me know i can go back to writing

azzibueckers5: This is a really funny question to ask me because I haven’t mastered the art of regaining motivation at all. But some small things that help me are typically rereading my outlines and the snippets and scenes I have already written and trying to get excited about the storyline again. I also am very particular about where I can write (I need to be in public so I feel like others are watching me and judging me unless I'm typing in a doc, but not too public for. obvious reasons) so putting myself in a coffee shop or library for a couple hours and forcing myself to just write usually does the trick at least temporarily. And I’ve made a bunch!! At least five or six people I’ve met through writing/tumblr are people I talk to quite frequently.

soloey: i either brute force push myself through or find something i am actually excited to write about. i feel like everyone knows that i generally will just not write if i don’t want to !! forcing myself through is often the most effective strategy, but sometimes i need a step back to like . really plan what i’m doing, especially in a series. writing is supposed to be fun so if i’m not enjoying it i won’t do it. i’ve made a handful of good friends over time :’) not like, meet in real life friends. yet. stay tuned for nyc pride. but people i met on preath ao3 took me to my first ever soccer game, and wattpad was how i got into the fandom that inspired me to make a fandom twitter which led to literally dozens of my closest friends that i’ve met irl :’) internet safety paragon over here

eclipscee: i have very little motivation. writing for me comes down to sheer will and locking myself up against my freedom until i get the thing i set out to do finished. and i’m lowkey stranger danger so i try to keep my dms to a strict minimum.

wecrytogether: i maintain motivation by giving myself deadlines (that i stick to anyway) i also will ask my friends for requests so that they can keep bugging me and also, i recognized im more likely to follow thorough on a fic if its someone in my personal life that wants it

twostepcherry: tbh my motivation only comes when i’ve already posted a chapter for a story because i don’t want to leave it unfinished, but sometimes i do take giant breaks in between chapters because i didn’t like what i’d written before. then i try to read things like other fanfics or books that have a writing style that i do like so i can learn how to improve my own writing! or i’ll try writing something completely different to get out of a slump 

hcneymooners: i don't. throughout years of writing i've learned i work better when i allow a stop and flow. i worry about losing motivation constantly—when it gets really bad however i sort of "exorcise" myself. i reblog and reblog and reblog to my visual diary tumblr. i mass pin. i listened to my enormous playlist, composed of either the few artists who ever fully understood me or the one titled 'songs that are what's wrong with me'. i try to read something that makes my throat hurt, that guts me so much that i can't stand it. i read something that reminds me of several things and then slowly it begins to remind me of myself again and the engine stops stalling. the best advice i have is that i do try to remain a writer during dry spells. even if its just a notes app entry of me losing my mind i still write it out. it ensures i never lose the thread. as for friends, i've made so many. i met several of the loves of my life through writing and made several close friendships through tumblr. oddly enough i think that friendship through these spaces has helped me give grace to myself and put less pressure on perfect connection. its helped me accept change and loss. one of my favorite people on here deactived one day and i came back to a goodbye message and couldn't contact her again. its a bit of a brutal feeling but its helped me weather the course, to allow in the idea that we can't always hold on to what we want. every person brought into my life through writing has been incredible; i've never suffered for a lack of love.

teamfueckers: I’m a bookworm and love to read, so I’ll just take a break, focus on whatever book I’m currently reading, and trust that the motivation/inspiration will come back. Sometimes writing or brainstorming something new has this domino effect that’ll motivate me to go back to other fics that are in progress. I’d say I’m friendly with a lot of mutuals, but haven’t made many friends (not that I don’t want to, just hasn’t happened ig).

33lol: Usually when I start feeling unmotivated or burnt out, I take a break and go to make graphics or read other fics for inspiration in hopes of sparking my creativity! There’s several mutuals I talk to regularly and few I’ve connected with outside of Tumblr and I’ve really appreciated getting to know them.

azzibueckers5: I really really enjoy their playful dynamic, and I think what they’ve chosen to show us is a very authentic, loving relationship. Often I find myself drawn to couples that try to hide their relationship and can’t because it’s so clear on their faces and in their behavior (ex. preath), and they are like the perfect example. I also think they remind me sometimes of the way that I act in relationships and the dynamic that I aspire to have, and that makes it super fun to engage with. 

soloey: they’re really goofy and not afraid to banter. i love banter. i like to preserve that through any angle i write from. 

eclipscee: their natural banter is so visible i feel and BUZZYYY and I like those dynamics of couples who rag on eachother a little bit but yk it’s all love and i think it’s really cute Ya

wecrytogether: i think theyre a beautiful couple, and i love the way theyre so expressive with they way they love each other, even while in a mostly private relationship.

twostepcherry: i like their dynamic and their personalities a lot! i also think they’re both very funny people which makes them fun to write! 

hcneymooners: i don't know if fun is the first feeling to come to mind to be completely honest, but not in a bad way. i think they are just deeply romantic to me and i rarely find myelf invested in "celebrity" relationships. they and duacallum are just so evocative; a think a true display of a soulmate in a chosen way. writing allows me to celebrate that romance, to exalt it. i live a lot through love in every form, i think it saves and strengthens us. pazzi is a sure sign of it.

teamfueckers: Their love story is inspiring. I love sports. I love writing. So yeah…

33lol: I think it’s just the fact that I connect with their personalities (and attractiveness tbh) idk💀 I love them as people and think it’s fun to show that through writing:)

azzibueckers5: This is a really hard one because I truly live for every comment, and picking feels wrong. I think any comment where I can tell the reader to put in effort and time into reading my fic and understanding it, and then taking even more time and effort to comment their thoughts is always an honor. I still remember the high of my first ever ao3 comment and waking up after posting chapter 1 with 3 comments and wanting to cry </3. 

soloey: probably “this literally changed the trajectory of my life” like wow my head is just so massive now thank u. no but seriously like i’ve read so many fics that have made me feel insane so to know i’ve had the same effect on other people is the best feeling in the world. i definitely don’t express how much it means to me enough. but i love it

eclipscee: anons that pick out specific parts they liked and what they thought about it i love and there’s never any comment that’s Too Long i like them all. I also like when people have different takes on my work I think it’s interesting.

wecrytogether: recently, someone told me they love how perverted i make ldayluam pazzi, and i really loved that. i also really appreciate comments or inboxes that speak to the tension in my fics because i work hard on the buildup :)

twostepcherry: someone asked (and i still haven’t answered it but i will) for head cannons for a fic and i thought that was such a fun/cute question! also someone commented something (im paraphrasing) about me being a comedy fic writer and i thought that was very sweet because it’s mostly just stuff i find funny and humor is subjective so i’m glad it translated!

hcneymooners: very hard to choose but:

"this is so so random, but something i’ve noticed is how everyone meets you with the same softness and love that you give and it’s just so lovely to witness. it’s like your energy is so infectious that people can’t help but mirror it"

and: "this fic is the epitome of romance!! i have the sense that your writing, even if not about a romance, is always so romantic. i love it !!!"

and: "Hey; Took me a little while -not much- to get into the story, to infuse whatever attention span I can gather on days without Ritaline through the dense descriptive writing style at first. But once I got there, I really got there and I am having a hard time leaving. This reads like an original story way more than it does a random HR AU making me smile and click on it just because of its tag about being serious about the French parts (un coucou depuis le Sud !). Didn’t take long to realise that I wasn’t reading For, nor really About Ilya and Shane. I think the whole purpose of most fanfics is pretty much to be a pretext to write about something else without feeling too vulnerable, or to serve as a condenser: the one (1) established impurity spec needed in a cloud for a raindrop to materialise around it and fall. But this one feels barely even cloaked with the linen of familiar Ship. I don’t regret it; I always loved see-through fabrics and light glazes. I can feel the yearning in this through my bones. I grew up learning how to paint and draw and sculpt and Look, Notice from my grandmother, and I carry this with me everywhere I go; in anything I look at. I feel like this is such a big part of this story (or maybe the way you write), The noticing? Smells, Colors, lights and glimpses. Contemplatif, lento paced, Trop intimiste pour qu’il puisse rester any corner to hide from each other, and the acceptance that comes with it. The way that they just…don’t retreat? They are perceived and they don’t retreat. I think this is the part that really hooked me and crammed itself in my throat. I know a little about grief; not as much as I should with all the dead people scattered in my life, but a little; yet Nothing that ever felt like this. Mine has always been tiny, muffled and folded in a forgotten drawer. This makes me regret it almost. But I do know about feeling things way too intensely, that I can relate to. The looking and noticing is something i remind myself to do when I get buried in it. It helps regularly; or dunks me deeper in it sometimes. So this fic is hitting quite close to home for me. I almost wish I took some notes, some sentences in there felt like they should be written down in a goddamn journal for the images they gave birth to in my head. So I can visit them like un album photo when I’ll need to feel something. This whole text feels quiet and Bare. A soft buzzing of electric appliances through the wall, harmonising with the tightness in your chest you don’t feel anywhere but in between midnight and 3 am. I will miss it once I scroll away."

teamfueckers: I love getting reactions about specific parts I’ve written or even when people make suggestions.

33lol: Hmm idk about a question, but I really appreciated something Em (teamfueckers) just told me which was how I’ve grown in my pacing and how I describe things:)

no one else in this room knew. knew paige and azzi, sixteen and in bed facing each other in the gray light of dawn. azzi drawing her fingertip down the bridge of paige’s nose.

I conjure the boy I knew. Achilles, outlined against the sky, hanging from a branch over the river. The thick warmth of his sleepy breath against my ear. If you have to go, I will go with you.

pbaz7: i can’t pinpoint a specific author or book honestly. i’m low key a nerd and i tend to lean toward a lot of classics when it comes to reading so that may subconsciously be portrayed in my writing but i’m not 100% on that 

azzibueckers5: lowkey no! I don't really know where I got my writing style from, but I think it is very unique to me and my own inner monologue, for better or for worse. Just consuming as much fan fiction as i have probably is the most influential factor for my writing. 

soloey: i write pretty differently based on what i’m writing to be honest! with fic particularly, i grew up reading a lot of rick riordan tbh so i feel like his love for jokes inspires me to try to get that balance of lightheartedness and moving scenes. but i’ve genuinely just read a fuck ton of fic in my life. like so much. i’ve seen it all. i’ve been in so many fandoms and read so many works. being a writer is a lot of finding out what u love from different places and scrapbooking it all together to create your own voice. it’s not super streamlined for me! 

wecrytogether: its not pazzi, but to the bone by hcneymooners (ally) truly altered my brain chemistry and forced me to stop writing lazily, because of all the attention to detail and thought she put into that. i wasnt even her friend yet when i started reading that and i just... yeah. also thaatdigitaldiary (kennedy) inspired me to start writing more ethnically. like she showed me thats its okay to use aave, or have "urban" plots, basically showed me that not everything needs to be clean girl aesthetic or white washed.

twostepcherry: hmm i think probably every single pazzi writer that i’ve read has in some way influenced my writing because there are so many talented writers with so many different styles of writing that i find interesting! for books, i read this book ages and ages ago now, called “sexing the cherry” (by jeannette winterson) and it was so weird and strange that i found it inspiring to just start writing whatever i wanted. 

hcneymooners: catherynne m. valente, specifically her novels deathless and radiance. courtney summers who wrote the novel the project. others include julia armfield, yael van der wouden, and arkady martine.

teamfueckers: Idk if there is a specific author or book that has directly influenced me, but I’m sure what I’ve read over the years has influenced my writing style.

33lol: No published authors or books, but definitely many of the authors on this panel and their work have influenced my style!

peach4pazzi: angst is hard because it requires a lot of build up. enemies to lovers for the same reason. anything that takes a long time to develop is hard for me because i’m results-oriented and impatient. i think everyone agrees my area of expertise is something short, fluffy, and maybe a little funny, but those are the least satisfying to produce because i feel less proud of them.

pbaz7: i think my current series btl has been one of the more challenging series i’ve written. i had a lot of people request a ‘slow burn’ and to make it worthwhile for readers i feel like the characters are more complex than usual and i had to grow them outside of the relationship for a few chapters which was a little difficult. despite how challenging it’s been i’ve enjoyed every second of it

azzibueckers5: idk what to say for this one everything is hard to write <3 lol

soloey: yeah i find it really hard to write things that aren’t super happy or straightforward. not from a standpoint where i can’t write the characters or plot, but because i think too much about if people will care about it. i know most people kinda just want to see the romance, so i’ll sometimes cut corners on things that are a little deeper so that i can make sure everyone will still enjoy it. 

eclipscee: i enjoy what is easy. i find hard things challenging. that’s why As You Wish has no third part. because it’s too hard.

wecrytogether: i love to write from paiges mind, just because i tend to relate more to the version of her that i'm writing. its easier for me to write from the mind of a masc presenting woman than a fem presenting one, because i tend to take a more masculine position in my relationships (even as a fem). its sometimes hard for me to write azzi canonically but for the most part they both come to me easily. as far as plots go, surprisingly i reallllllyyy struggle with writing dates? for some reason dates or public settings in general are hard because i sometimes cant properly balance writing the couple AND the setting without it seeming... unnatural. like sometimes i feel like me describe locations or situations reads as awkward.

twostepcherry: i think for plot the hardest stuff for me to write is romantic tension/romantic angst (so basically everything 😭) because i always want it to be perfect and not stupid if that makes sense? sometimes it’s hard to convey tension when it’s earlier on in a story/plot but it’s still supposed to be there, and angst is specifically hard for me to write because sometimes i just think “this is stupid, they can just talk about it,” but at the same time that doesn’t always happen irl + sometimes you just need it for the plot! i also find it hard to write anyone outside of pazzi because i sometimes find myself turning all the side characters into the same person, which is boring to read. not really plot, but i enjoy writing dialogue and i enjoy incorporating texts into my fics! 

hcneymooners: i can't write enemies-to-lovers to save my life. i love second-chance if done well, friends to lovers is my all time favorite, and i love writing high gothic/darker works that allow me to be visceral in description.

teamfueckers: I have a tendency to write pretty one-dimensional characters imo. I want my characters to have more complexity so that’s something that I’ve been experimenting and challenging myself with. If you’ve read my work, you know I love a fun random plot with smut…

33lol: I am one that HATES writing angst (and even reading it sometimes). I just get so anxious but I do appreciate how it adds to a story and enhances the plot. I’m a sucker for a good fluffy story🙂‍↕️