#advice!!

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Aww I’m honoured you’re asking me!!

Sorry I answered this so late

Ngl my solution to writers block used to be just abandon the wip lmao but I’m so excited for your fic so don’t follow my bad old advice!!!

So here’s what I do if I get stuck:

One time when I was writing a longer fic I got really stuck halfway through bc I didn’t know what to do next or how to write it so my friend suggested that I outlined it and it really helped!! I wrote like 4k more words and finished it bc of that so if you don’t have an outline already then I suggest trying it out!! It can be as little as just vague ideas of larger plot points that’ll happen or super detailed, just whatever works best for you!

My friend blue (@willies-skateboard) started this thing in our discord server at least called spite writes, where she’ll give us kinda challenges to give us some spiteful motivation like “I bet you can’t write 500 words in 20 minutes” or “I bet you can’t write 1k words consecutively” or smth like that, so if you want one definitely send them an ask (or even just me if you’re more comfortable with that)!

There’s also a discord bot called sprinto bot (tho writer bot does this too) I have on one of my servers, where you basically just set up how long and when for the bot to start a timer and you (and anyone else who joins) kinda race against each other to get the most words written in that amount of time. In our discord server we do it more like a spite write, where one persons says “oh I bet I can write more than you in 15 minutes” or smth and we all set the timer, start writing, and tell each other our word counts at the end! It’s less competitive than the bots and it’s more for “im proving them wrong!!” kinda thing but it’s super fun and I wrote like 1.1k words this way yesterday lol

Usually those work for me, but sometimes I’ll also just talk to one of my friends to develop some plot point, character thing, whatever, and they’ll help me get some details ironed out, give me some encouragement, and get me excited to write again

holy shit bro you're so much more prepared than me! i literally had no idea what i was gonna do with the au when i started my blog! i'd just been so fascinated with zombie apocalypse games and books (resident evil as an example for the games) so i just thought fuck it and made an au.

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1. But yeah, if you're looking for tips on how to gain a following and people that enjoy your content, i would say just build up a strong group of friends/mutuals that can give you tips, help you phrase stuff and hype you up. Join groupchats, create groupchats, rb people's content with your own input and follow cc that you enjoy!

(Obviously i had a headstart because i've got a fanfiction blog that i've been writing on for six months so i already had a platform to promote the blog. But not only did that blog allow me to promote the new content on here, it also allowed me to find a group of friends that i talk to pretty much everyday! When i wrote fanfiction i would always go to them for help & extra tips because a lot of them were a lot more experienced than me and would always be cool with helping! shoutout to the homies btw i love y'all <3 except hera, you stink)

2. Remember to tag your posts appropriately! Tagging posts with unrelated tags can sometimes get annoying for other people so try to only include people that're mentioned in the post/story

3. Create some character profiles to refer back to! no matter if they're vague or unorganised, just make notes that you can depend on!

5. Finally, don't stress yourself out! If you're not getting any followers, just think "what can i do better?" or "how can i get better?" rather than thinking "oh no... i need to do better, but i can't" And also remember to take breaks if you ever feel the need to! Throughout the six months that i've been writing fanfiction, i've only took like 3-4 breaks from writing at most? and i used to write every single day. i wish i had taken more breaks because now im super burnt out when it comes to fanfiction and i just can't bring myself to do it because even opening a blank document on my other blog makes me stressed

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GA: Secondly, I Don’t know How You Would Tell For Sure If You Were A Regressor Besides Thinking  ‘do I Feel Like Im Younger?’ And Trying To Answer Yourself Honestly.