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Nonnie, I hate to say this. This isn't probably ignorant. It is ignorant. And I'm going to assume you aren't a writer because you wouldn't ask this if you were.

Your question. Why don't they write?

Time and energy. You need both to create. Some days, people don't have enough to devote to it. There are people behind the blogs that have families, jobs and other things to worry about.

Lack of engagement. Some writers are pulling back because they have worked their asses off to produce and get nothing to show for it, typically after so many have demanded more behind the anon button.

Similarities. Writers have tossed fics completely because they're too similar to what someone else has recently posted. That can drive creativity down. Especially if the original writer noted or told others what they planned to write.

And some days...people just don't want to write.

Playing games, reblogging and simply engaging with others is a nice break from the mold. Not sure how many times it needs to be said that blogs are not fic machines.

If this was directed specifically at me and you're only following me for my writing, I suggest following my sideblog instead. If this is a general ask for other writers, please be kind to them. You don't know what's going on in RL. If anything, be more supportive and celebrate when they DO post.

This is spot on. All of it.

Engagement has been really fucking low these past couple months.

It's one thing to not read a fic because it contains a character you don't know or don't read. You're not obligated to read everything we do.

But across-the-board, engagement has been so low. It's so incredibly soul crushing to spend literal hours writing something only for no one to interact with it. I've lost motivation to write in the past because a fic wasn't engaged with as much as I'd hoped.

"writers should write for themselves." yeah, we do. But knowing people like our work is so incredibly motivating. It's like "holy shit all these people like this! I wanna see how they react to the next chapter/fic."

We love feedback.

I have spent the past two years planning, researching, writing and editing Crescent; it’s currently almost 112k words. The average adult reads between 200 and 250 wpm. It takes a reader with an average reading speed of 200 wpm ONLY 9 hours to read my entire fic.

The fic currently sits at 65 comments. 31 of those are my replies to lovely comments I’ve received. I’ve been posting Crescent for almost a year now…

#engenerevival — week three

a/n: omg long a/n but first of all, this is waaaay overdue. i know i’ve already probably lost more than half of my readers but this is for the remaining few (and me) who would like to know how the story ends!! i’m going tbh, i procrastinated writing this for way too long (i’ve been enjoying my break too much), and the worst also happened, i was working on this but the whole thing got deleted so this is my second time writing the whole thing rip :[

anyway i decided this last minute but as it turns out, there will be a part 10, more like a second part to part 9 / epilogue, bc the rest was supposed to be included in here buuuut i’m going to be away for the rest of the week and won’t be able to continue writing the rest of the scenes so the only time to post is now, since i know ppl have been waiting too long for an update and i didn’t want to keep that any longer (i know id only be stressing over it the whole week if i did jsdkf). so this one and the next part are going to be super duper short but i promise to work on the last as soon as i get back ok!! it won’t take another month!!! lol.

part one | part eight