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writing is 10% storytelling and 90% rearranging three sentences for an hour like you're trying to solve an ancient curse

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Robby deserves to be written as a submissive bottom to a soft pleasure dom whitaker. They yearn for this
*mic drop*
Things that give writers anxiety
- When they write
- When they don't write
- Being asked what their book is about
- not saving before closing a word doc
- Life in general
“I want to write a fic about this but I don’t think anybody will be interested in it” ummm hello excuse me ma’am what do you mean you don’t think anybody will be interested in it??? YOU. YOU ARE INTERESTED IN IT???? write it because YOU are interested in it and YOU want to write about it. fanfic writing should always be first and foremost about YOUR enjoyment, not other people’s.
I'M JUST SAYING that it would not be completely unheard of for Benjamin Franklin Hawkeye Pierce to have been a guest lecturer at a medical conference in the same timeline of Michael "Robby" Robinavitch's career (Hawkeye would be 104 in 2026, we don't have an exact timeline for Robby's career but chief senior attending at 55 using the actor's birthday...),
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY,
for Jack Abbott to have seen/read interviews and studies and papers by Hawkeye, by BJ, by Charles, but mostly by Trapper John McIntyre, in his career as a field medic and his desire to learn about the history of medicine in the army. The doctors, surgeons, who kept their skills up in the worst of all conditions, who thought and invented on the fly, who had to act fast but with care, who may not have wanted to serve and who in many cases were blatantly anti military, but always, always, did what they could for every patient.
(I contemplated Dana Evan' bseing compared to Margaret Houlihan, but I feel like they'd be drinking buddies more than anything)

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is there such a thing as a beta but instead of reading for line edits or plot notes, they just read my work and recommend what tags to put on ao3 outside of like. warnings.
Lulu's Totally Unofficial Guide to the Top 10 Freeform Tags to Add to Your Fanfic
Genre - Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Slice of Life, Case Fic, etc.
AU - If it's an AU, what kind? What role do each of the characters play? How is it different to their canon role?
Parts of canon - If it's not an AU, what part of canon is it about? Is it set before, during or after a particular episode?
Themes - Are there any topics or ideas which you are trying to explore, or which come up repeatedly?
Minor Warnings - Is there anything you think you should warn for that isn't included in the archive warnings?
Format & Length - Is your work art, video, podfic, etc? Does it use a particular format like a Drabble or 5+1?
Characters - What is going on with each of your major characters? If you had to describe them with one or two adjectives, what would you pick? (Format as [Adjective] [Character Name].)
Relationships - What is going on with each of your major relationships? Are there any relationship tropes like Slow Burn or Enemies to Lovers in your story?
Tropes - Are there any tropes or common story elements in your story that haven't been tagged yet? If your work was on TV tropes, what are the first things you would add?
Sex - If your work includes sex, what kink(s) and specific act(s) does it involve?
Remember: you can always look at the drop-down menu for suggestions. But! If you want to tag something that doesn't appear on the drop-down menu, you can & should write in a new tag!
This is a good guide!
This is one of the things r/ao3 is actually pretty helpful for, in fact I think centrumlumina's guide is almost word-for-word match for advice that i see posted regularly on there. Its also great for "here's a thing that happens in my story/i want to warn readers about, is there a tag for that?" (Or even "this tag i already know about doesn't suit my purposes for xyz reasons. What can i do instead?")
I can do it. I can write a chapter. I am capable of putting sentences together. I know what a comma is. I am Aware of the Character.
Write that one-shot. Those 3 chapters will be the best 10 chapters you ever wrote
i made a guide to help with ao3 tagging :)
That fic you wrote?
The one about the ship no one else cares about, or the deeply unpopular character, or the extremely unusual AU?
The fic that got no comments or kudos when you posted it?
Months or years from now, that fic might be exactly what someone is looking for in the sea of fics about all the popular characters, ships, and AUs.
Your fic might be the only fic out there that has what someone is looking for. The only fic that scratches the itch that it turns out you and that reader share.
And that's awesome.

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I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there — things that will get taken down on any other platforms — and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.
and no, this isn’t me saying “write that messed up, disgusting thing” because while, yes, write it if it’s what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered “vile” to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.
everybody say thank you ao3
honestly sometimes there's no better feeling than rereading a fic you've written and coming out of it going, "yeah that actually this DOES slap. exactly what i wanted to read. fucking nailed it."
The thing is we do see the evidence that Van knows his diplomatic responsibilities, he knows what is expected of him as a king, we see how people think so little of him, of his kingdom, his people.
But. He's 15 years young, recently lost his brother (again)(forever), has the trauma of war (a blood lust. A craving for vengence. A little boy forced into a warrior, terrified of the rage inside, so goddamn angry and lonely), has NOBODY but a younger sister and scattered friends in adjoining nations...
In fanfiction he has advisors, but in canon his generals were killed, his people were scattered, everything fell onto his shoulders to build again...
And on top of all that, he's got to be mature and loving enough to let the girl he's in love with, who he's already followed across the universe to reunite with, go back to the world she comes from, losing her support as he rebuilds his nation from the ground up?
...
...
Someone hold me i'm crying over child soldiers again
Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction
Reblog to give prev the TIME to write their fanfiction
Reblog to give prev the hocus focus to write their fanfiction.
Reblog to give prev the energy to write their fanfiction
Reblog to give prev the executive function to write their fanfiction
Can I cast this on myself?
Look, I get it, Older More Experienced Bear Daddy Robby with his Twinky Little Rat Pup Brat Whitaker is going to be more common because Dennis' Yearning Gaze, Robby's Need To Touch, the taller older yadda yadda
But I cannot believe this fandom has seen Robby at his absolute lowest, suicidal, ptsd breaking down, covered in blood and ears ringing sobbing, pushing his way through the day and zeroing in on Dennis, Visibly Struggling with the idea Dennis might be in a relationship with a girl and "he's Our Huckleberry", whispering to a baby about how he was abandoned as a kid and wants desperately to be loved just after seeing Dennis playing with a baby and...
...
This fandom has mostly decided Robby is a daddy top???????
Nooooo, my darlings, my babies, Dennis routinely has that old man biting into a pillow sobbing in relief and ecstacy as he gets taken care of "for once" becoming his new reality, Dennis is Daddy here and Robby is his baby

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ai can never ever write half as good as an average tired writer who pulls an all-nighter writing a slow burn gay fanfiction for their favorite fictional characters out of hyperfixation, love, passion and spite they have for the way canon treated their little gay ship
This is why I read the reddit comments
I love how the notes for this are just chock full of examples of the most batshit specific things people research for their fanfics. Truly a treasure trove.
Some of my favorites
And my absolute fav
I once spent hours doing research and math to figure out, first of all, what general type of ship the Dragon Hunter ships are based off of, and how much said type of ship weighs. For a single line. In a 470k word fanfic. With lots of anal.