taking the Stares (TM) but ignoring the forced hetero romance subplot :)

hii so i never like ever post anything else than tags but lately i've been wondering about this question. i never credit fics on my ao3 tags posts because tbh i just screenshot a tag and can sometimes keep it for months in my dedicated folder + i also don't want to bring potentially unwanted attention to fics.

but one could argue the authors are doing the hard work here, so it would be only fair to credit them. i wouldn't mind trying to do the extra work of sourcing everything.

i would like mainly fanfic authors who post on ao3 to answer this, but the rest of yall, feel free to give your opinion too ig lol

thankssss okay bye

Idea overwhelm can be a huge stumbling block for writers and their discovery drafts. Either you become paralyzed because you don’t know where to start or your story gets bogged down with so many unrelated ideas that make facing revisions feel unbearable. We get you!

The Build Your Romance exercise helps you practice focusing on the ideas that really matter to you with a given romance story. You will pick:

- 2 subgenres

- 1 genre style

- 1 setting

- 2 big tropes

- 3 micro tropes

- 1 misbelief for each character in the couple