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@haelstromx
What’s up to any of my followers still here! Since I see less and less posts in Naruto fandom everyday now, I’m just letting everyone know that most of my activity will be on @narutosbabymama. I’m not erasing this blog, and I’ve never been suuuper active, but just in case anyone is interested in keeping up :)
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Murphy’s law, applied to fanfics.
- The fic starts out great, nice style, language, captivating summary. It’s unfinished and has been abandoned since 2013.
- The fic is complete, nice style, language, tons of kudos speak for themselves. It’s about your NOTP.
- The fic is about your OTP, it’s complete, it’s kinky as hell. The plot is absolutely dumbass.
- The plot sounds great, it’s about your OTP, it’s complete. The characters are horribly OOC.
- Everything is perfect in this fic, starting from the first letter and ending with the last full stop. It’s exactly 800 words long.
- The fic’s word count is a six-figure number, it’s about your OTP, characters are compliant with your head-canon. It’s dull and boring as seven hells.
- The beginning is enthralling, everything’s great, the plot, the style, it’s long and it’s even about your OTP. It features something that makes you close the tab as soon as you open it, like father/daughter incest or mpreg or some other squicky thing.
- Everything is perfect in this fic, the length, the characters, the language, the style, you forget you’re reading fanfic, thinking it’s a masterpiece of true literature, you cry tears of joy and write a huge review full of gushing love and then rush to the author’s profile to read every other thing they’ve written. It’s their only work.
being a writer is being satisfied with the story you’re telling and being frustrated with the way you’re writing it
where’s that one “pakige” post bc like
AO3, Basic Logic, God, Everyone: You posted a chapter five minutes ago, and should get comments gradually over the next few hours! Me, .5 seconds after posting, sitting with my face pressed up against my AO3 inbox: commente
Bóòkmärkê?
Stop calling me out like this
Do other writers ever get this like, hyper-specific dialogue exchange drop into their brains and you know exactly where these character are standing and what they’re doing and how they’re saying these words but that’s all you get. You don’t have much other context and this specific moment that exists only at this time in your headspace??
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I feel so dumb while commenting, because 90% of the time it’s just me quoting the fic and going “oh wow??” or “YESSS” or “NOOO” or “PAIN” because i’m an inarticulate mess but. Writers genuinely EAT THAT UP and are super thrilled and delighted about it.
SO: Don’t trust your socially awkward, anxious guts, trust me. That clumsy, weird comment you felt awkward leaving? Will make a writer’s day. Seriously, it’s the truth.
A single ‘wow’ is enough!! Believe me :-)
Listen, as a writer, even “ASDFGHJKL THE FEELS” will absolutely make my entire day. Someone quoting my own writing back at me? I LIVE for that stuff!
So please, go wild. Yell incoherently, write an essay or five words, type “I want to give kudos again”, tell me which parts you liked best, don’t bother with punctuation and write in all caps. I will love every word.
GO FREAKING FERAL IN MY COMMENTS IF YOU WANT IT’S OKAY I LIVE FOR THIS SHIT
This year my New Year’s Resolution was to write more comments on fanfic. I have gotten several comments back that the writer loved watching me react to each chapter of the fic. Also it helps people who publish slowly realize that the reader loves their fic even if it’s only three chapters so far.
So true, English is my second language (although I have never lived in an english speaking country, I’m studying English) and it’s sometimes hard to make myself understood (sometimes it’s even difficult to make whatever I’m trying to say make sense in my first language like ugh) but I still try to comment on stuff.
When I used to write and post some things online it was such an amazing feeling when I got feedback, it could literally make my day.
Whoop whoop!
As a writer, let me tell people that I love comments, all types (apart from negative and hurtful ones, obviously), and feel SO happy whenever I see one in my inbox! Please, don’t be shy! Any show of appreciation for my fics is AMAZING, and I know a lot of other authors feel the same!
I think another problem with the mindset of kudos/comments on AO3 is part of the “stalking” culture on instagram. If you like a picture that is months old on instagram, its “insta-stalking” because you had to scroll through that person’s profile in order to find those months-old pictures. That is NOT how AO3 works. It’s not cringe or embarrassing to find a fic that was posted in 2012 and like it. It is there to read.
Same for works on AO3. Sure, maybe some of us have some old works that aren’t up to our current standards of writing. But I, personally, am never going to look at a kudos email and think “ew omg I can’t believe someone found this fic from 2016 why are they liking it”. In fact, I am entirely going to go “nice! people are still reading some of my older works too, I’m glad they enjoyed it”. It’s an archive, it is meant to be a collection of transformative works, old and new, and you are meant to find them.
In fact, if you find a work that is from five years ago and you really liked it? I bet the author would love a comment even then.
Stories are written to be read.
Show some appreciation.
Writers write to be read!
Older stories need love just as new ones. Please don’t let stories and chapters die of neglect after one fucking week!
Someone once apologized to me for commenting on a 6-month-old fic, but they thought it was so good they just HAD to comment. It took me aback for a moment, because I had never considered fandom spaces even remotely comparable to social media before. I didn’t actually think people thought that way. PLEASE interact with fanfictions from 2015, 2005, or 1995.
Most authors really enjoy being reminded of the fun they had writing a fic. They love knowing they’re still helping new fans enjoy an old fandom, even if they themselves don’t participate in that fandom anymore. And you never know when your comment is going to convince an older author to come back to visit an old fandom and make more content!
*stifles a sob* oh my god. This spoke to me in a way nothing else has.
@appears I fucking love your writing. ♥️
Utterly accurate.
When you're writing and you suddenly realize you don't know what happens next
When you’re writing and you suddenly realise you DO know what happens next
When you’re writing and you realise you have to write what happens next
foreshadowing done well makes me go feral like there’s NOTHING better than getting to the end a book or an important storyline moment and realising that the author laced information so intricately into their writing that weren’t noticeable upon first read but when you read back sections they’re light giant red flags like wow writing is amazing
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Me, explaining my writing to a friend: well, I think Character A did XYZ to Character B, and I just realized that Character B is—
Friend: you think? Isn’t this your story?
Me, exhausted: Look I don’t make any of the decisions around here. I just write them down.
Me writing fanfic:
Too, many, commas,,,
Is this ooc??
I used that word already
Do people even blush this much??
*squints* Is that canon?
Tropes
*cries while writing death scene*
Wait what happened last chapter?
I wrote like a thousan- 354 words!?
*googles the lifespan of a tropical fish*
have I spelt his name wrong all this time?
Would they say that tho?
Changes plot 539932 times
Loses inspiration, goes back to tumblr
how you think fic writers look when we read comments:
versus how we really look when we read comments:
TRUEEEEEEEEEE
Facts of all facts
i don’t think people really get how little feedback fanfic authors actually get? like the effort to reaction ratio is so abysmally skewed here that a fic nearly 50,000 words long takes an entire year to amass like. 16 comments. someone reblogged a fic i wrote at 4 am and tagged it with a 5-word compliment and i can’t stop thinking about it, not because it was so nice but because half the time you post a fic you’re going to hear nothing and anything feels like so much
fandom culture is so, so good about giving artists the credit they’re due, but we gotta start doing that for writers too. you’ve got no idea how much people put into their stories and get maybe a handful of reblogs and a dozen-odd kudos. that’s not enough. writing is an endurance sport and y’all need to start giving fic writers a reason to endure it and improve their craft. encourage writers like you encourage artists. reblog fics, leave tags, leave comments, acknowledge that these stories do not just spring into being for your entertainment.
every single damn writer i know feels like half of their readers see them as a machine. that’s gotta change.
Consider also: Writers do not even have the opportunity for feedback until we are finished.
Artists have the ability to show off preview sketches, host art streams, and get feedback during almost every step of their creative process, and we do not. We can’t really share outlines and half-finished sentences, choppy first-drafts, and have anyone get excited about that. When we say it’s an endurance sport, we really mean it.
That’s why it becomes that much more important to give us that feedback once we actually finish what we’ve been working on.
“When we say it’s an endurance sport, we really mean it"
THIS.
And of course we write because we love it. We have ideas–BIG HUGE IDEAS–that we want to get out there, just how we see it in our heads, and be able to go back over and over it again, even if no one else cares. Of course we write because we love it.
But we’re human and crave validation. We create these things because We Just Think They’re Neat and want others to agree that the concept or execution or both is also neat and fan about it with us!
It doesn’t even necessarily have to be about WHAT WE HAVE ACTUALLY WRITTEN. Tell us how much you love the concept or the plot device, start going off on tangents in your comments or tags or replies, because HECK YEAH WE’RE IN THE SAME BOAT. WE’LL JOIN IN WITH YOU.
Fic is MEANT to generate discussion. So don’t think of comments as just saying ‘thank you’. We’re happy for that of course, but that’s not why we wrote it. We wrote it because it’s a thing we’re really interested in, so if you’re interested in it too? SHARE SIS, WE ARE ALL EARS.
You know what I think is really cool?
You created something original, unique, and wonderful from nothing.
It doesn’t matter if you’re good at writing or bad at writing, if it’s a character, a drabble, an unfinished novel or a completed short story.
Every single time you write something — anything — you creating something out of nothing, and the world is a better place for it.
Even if you think it’s good, even if you think it’s bad… It doesn’t take away from the fact that you made something — it exists now, when it previously didn’t.
I think that’s beautiful, and deserves more recognition.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Complete
Rating: explicit
Relationship: naruto/sasuke
Summary: Sasuke wakes up in the hospital beside Naruto and starts his rocky journey to recovery after losing his arm. He considers himself lucky to always have Naruto by his side, who always says that's what best friends are for, but is that all they are?
friendly reminder to write stories for you. you explain your idea to a friend and they're not over the moon about it?? you'd really like to write it just because it'll be fun and someone tells you not to?? you wanna use a concept you know is important to you right now and could really help you cope and they tell you that this "trope" has been overdone??? FUCK IT. write that stuff. do what's best for you. do what you want to. your personal insecurities are more than tropes. what you need to read will never be overdone. if someone doesn't like your idea, it doesn't matter, you like it. you might be the creator but that doesn't mean you can't be the audience and it certainly doesn't mean you can be kept from creating if that's gonna help you heal
