#*tips

ahhh this is a phase, i can attest to this hahaha. i can provide you with some tips and reassurance!

writing tips for the cringe phase:

while in this phase, nothing sounds natural and everything feels cringey and forced

but to overcome that, ask yourself: why do you feel this way?

if your answer is "it just feels weird," then switch to another idea and start writing for it - maybe you just aren't ready for the current subject matter

if your answer is "the writing just feels bad," then this is when you head back to the research/learning phase. check out books, other fanfics, other sources of writing or video tips. what did you like about other writing? what types of phrasing or flow made you feel good while reading? try to go off those thoughts and try again on a new doc.

expanding on the above: do you prefer long sentences versus short? do you like long paragraphs or quicker line breaks? do you tell more than show ("Her saying that really hurt." or "Her words cut right through my lungs.") if you start to express yourself in a wider range of ways, that can help instead of literally writing every single emotion.

if your answer is "i hate it and it sucks," DO NOT DELETE. please please please just step away and then come back to it the next day. whenever i work on something and think "this is... not good." i still keep it, take a day, work on something else, and come back later. reading it over with fresh eyes makes you either realize "oh this actually wasn't bad and i was in my head" or "yeah we will move this to the scrap pile." either way, don't delete entire sections out of frustration. they could help later on, or even fit into another story.

you're writing from your heart. none of it should truly be cringe because it's how you feel, and you are the one creating it! not someone else, not a machine, but your brain and your two hands. that's saying something.

try to give yourself grace. write what makes you happy and write because you want to. and if it's cringe?

EMBRACE THE CRINGE! write that ridiculous idea, laugh at yourself for even thinking of it and writing it down, shake your head at how you even do these things. but remember that it's all art, and it's yours.

hey! after getting this ask i searched for tutorials and found really good ones, but none of them are the exact way i do mine.

by yeoshi

by winterhelps

by bcnoist

by rollinpeaces ( this one is rlly good )

if you want a tutorial on how i do mine, i can, but i think these ones above will help you out!

these are the two that I use!:

they haven’t given me many problems , and they get the job done! both download videos in high quality and they’re free, as fat as I know!

I did I did I did!

Anyways, I was wondering if you have any advice for aspiring writers?? I just can’t seem to get over the fear to post smt and keep nitpicking my works, so any advice would be appreciated!!💜💜

wait that’s so sweet!! i’m happy you’re enjoying the stories🥺 more to come for both 3tan and minted! omg you read all of 3tan in two days?? holy heck that’s the product of 3+ years hope you fully immersed yourself🤣🙏

as far as advice, i have answered asks about this before under the *advice or *tips tags, but i can add some here, too:

start posting small: i started writing just tiny spice scenes, some even like 2-3 sentences haha. and i did post them! they’re floating around somewhere if you look hard enough. the point is warm yourself up and get used to posting, getting used to using the Create Post menu. atp, who cares who sees it. the point is to get used to the feeling of sharing things and letting them be

practice with prompts: find a prompt list post and pick which ones you wanna try. it can be based off one-liners, tropes, reverse tropes, or just single words. go wherever your brain takes you and don’t think too hard at first.

editing is your best friend: your first draft? is gonna be a mess lmfao. but that’s normal, and the whole point is get all the ideas in your head on the page. when you’re done, you can then go in and clean up shop and make things flow with the editing process.

learn on the go and write down things you wanna try or random things you think of: if you aren’t sure how to write smut, read it haha. or watch it if you’re into that. you’re gonna find things that are like “oh that’s fun” or “hmm wait this could be cool to try” and then try your own spin on it.

write to your spice level: there’s many ways to write spice, and you don’t even need to go into super graphic detail. i’ve seen plenty of stories that are just as hot without going into too much detail when it comes to the smut scenes. whatever your comfort level, you’re gonna attract a similar audience, so you don’t have to force more than what you’re comfy writing.

you’re not gonna please everyone: and that’s okay! you write for yourself, and then you write for your audience. and everyone’s audience is different from the next. tbh that’s super freeing to know because you don’t stress about trying to appeal to every single person on the planet haha

share your creative process: be yourself, post writing updates, post fun lore, post whatever gets you excited so that people can see that as much as your stories. offer teasers, a tag list, etc. the more involved you are, the more people will come across those posts and turn into being invested with you. then on the drop days, you’ll already have an awaiting group of readers!

I'm planning to go to South Korea for the festa next year and I was curious to know if you'd ever been there and if you had any good recommendations of places for me to see when I'm there ? ily <3

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omg mustache?? that’s so exciting! see you there maybe?🤔 I’m planning on doing the same hehehe

i’ve been before during festa and first things first, trust me when i say this.. it’s gonna be HOT💀 so that’s an extra tip: account for the high temperatures

bring light clothes unless you’re ok with baggy

bring handheld fans, hats, umbrella, etc

drink water and hydrate often and always

sunscreen!!! and aloe/face masks

as far as places to visit:

cafe hyuga (used to be their dorm and is now a coffee shop)

yoojung sikdang (the restaurant where they ate a lot during debut days! there’s bts stuff alllll over the walls)

all the cafes are so cute, so my suggestion would be to look up coffeeshops in the areas you’re gonna be and pick one🤣

@/angoo_korea on IG has a whole list of bts themed places they take tourists, so check out their blog to see if you find good places! i’m saying this bc i’m seriously blanking on other places rn💀