"Grandma’s Pissed We Missed Dessert"

here’s an article from brown university on the subject i’ll discuss further. there are 3 parts of practicing metacognition identified in this article: planning, monitoring, and evaluation. how might this look like for a fanfic writer? 

planning: asking oneself ‘what is my goal?’ ‘what strategies should i use to meet that goal?’ ‘how much time/length do i need to meet my goal?’. so maybe my goal is to write a meet cute where two characters kiss. i’ll need to use a perspective, an upbeat tone, and forward characterization to do this. it’ll probably take 5000 words and two days to write. 

monitoring: asking oneself: is my story making sense? am i reaching my goal, or do i need to summarize more succinctly to keep it to 5k? maybe you started with a lot of exposition and now you’re 6k in and the characters haven’t met yet. what went wrong/changed? is it ok that it changed or did you not realize it got away from you? what now? 

evaluation: asking oneself: did i reach my goal? was it effective? what would i change next time? 

this is where comments come in

it is incredibly difficult to evaluate yourself. comments like “i love this!” actually do begin to touch on the evaluation step of metacognition. it means, in general, the writer is on the right track. comments like “i loved the dialogue between x and y” or “the emotions of this section really hit me” begin to answer the questions of was it effective, did i reach my goal and conversely answer what would i change next time (by adding more of whatever was specified as working well). HYPER SPECIFIC comments, like analyzing the story between the lines or pasting in a line that you really liked and explaining why, is like jet fuel for the metacognition process and i’m not exaggerating. specifically pointing out what was effective and why is incredibly useful 

Summary: Beth and Rio’s text chain based on season 4, with a few other people sprinkled in too.

Beth: Your drop is ready

It sounds like every other drop with Rio, but Beth’s fingers are tight around her phone. Even an extra glass of wine didn’t relax her. Everyone is always telling her to make a choice, pick a side. As if it’s so easy. As if desperation, remorse and guilt were so easy to brush away. Choose Rio over her family? Over Annie and Ruby? Not even a choice.

Just a lil scribbley commission for the lovely @missmaxime

What happens when grad student Beth Marks is asked to share an office with new student Christopher Ramirez? Will sparks fly or will tempers flare? Only time will tell.

For @mamey2422 for the Good Girls Gift Exchange 2021

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It gave me the general idea of them having a no-kissing rule, and specifically inspired this part:

I like when you do that. Rio never said it out loud, but he thought it a hundred times, felt the words every time she nibbled that spot just under his ear. He splayed a hand in her hair, a little firm, holding her there, wanting her to stay longer and longer. He welcomed the way his body buzzed when her lips flitted over the scars on his chest. The thick, dark skin had faded but the small constellation of what she’d done to him would be there forever.

The author reveal is upon us! Please check out the Ao3 collection to finally see who wrote what!

Below are the results of the author match up quiz. We had a four way tie at the top, so the three winners of the art prizes have been chosen by random draw.

10/10 (WOW how DID y’all DO THAT???) Corresponding list numbers indicate prize winning order as chosen by the randomizer at random.org.

sothischickshe

lemoncupcake

bourbon-ontherocks

mego42

Winners will be contacted regarding their art prizes in sequence over the next few days depending on response times

See the spreadsheet of who picked who here

Thanks to everyone who participated in this event, whether it was as an author, a reader, sharing the content posted, or taking the quiz!

This event marks the end of goodgirlsficrecs. It will remain as an archive. A heartfelt thank you to anyone who has supported the blog and its events over the last few years. It’s been a ride!

Below the cut are the rest of the final quiz results