I’m All For Lighting Coffee Scented Candles

first chapter officially inbound (: July 25th

Coffee Scented Candles on ao3

Mutual pining is great, but you know what's even better? Mutual pining where they're both fully aware the feelings are requited, they just can't do anything about it for other reasons. Or maybe they technically could but they've had to choose not to, because of The Circumstances.

Some of you might think im just a sex obsessed freak. Well i am. Youre following a pervert. Have a nice day.

ok computer show me men in pain

Please stop starting your scenes with the weather. Not because it's a rule. Because you are doing it to avoid starting with the actual thing. You know what the scene is about. You know what's at stake. You are describing clouds because you're nervous. I understand. I did it too. But the reader doesn't need the clouds. They need the thing. Start with the thing. You can always add the clouds later if they're actually doing something. They are usually not doing anything.

If you're a new writer and you're asking yourself "is this too personal, is this too much, will people think this is weird" that feeling is the exact location of your actual voice. The stuff that makes you want to close the laptop is the stuff nobody else could write. The safe version is always worse. Always. I have never once read something and thought "this would have been better if it was a little less honest." go further. It's always go further.

I’m not sure if this will be helpful to anyone, but you literally do not have to be a good writer to write and post fan fiction. Yes you will naturally get better at writing and finding your voice the more you do it but you do not have to be or become a professional level writer to enjoy writing and sharing fics. It’s common to hear people praise fic writers by saying their work is better than published books, and while I think this comes from a good place, that’s not the norm or expectation. There is also a sentiment that fic writing is “good practice” for becoming a better writer or doing something else later, but if fic is the only creative writing you ever do that is literally okay. Your technical skill does not mean you cannot have fun and build community with your writing, or that other people cannot love and find meaning in your work.

thats the wrong image

no no, go on