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Chapters: 1/1 Rating: Explicit Relationships: Colin Hughes/Michael Additional Tags: Meet-Cute, of sorts, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, just let Colin be soft and happy please, Gay Disaster Colin Hughes (affectionate), Bad Pick-Up Lines, AFC Richmond Players are Himbos (Ted Lasso) Summary:

There were certain sentences in Colin Hughes’s life that never failed to ruin his day. “Sorry, you’re starting this one from the bench” was one; any sentence from his mam that started with “Colin Alun Hughes” was another. Both indicated some kind of failing on his part, some kind of mistake he’d made that had disappointed those closest to him.

“That chick is totally checking you out,” was in a league of its own.

-a fic in which Colin's intentionally poor game manages to snag him a man

#ted lasso fanfic #colin hughes #lads it has been so many months since ive written smut this was Hard #my fanfic #colin x michael

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allthingswhumpyandangsty

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

mxrderscenes

writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

galadrieljones

Serious advice tho if this happens, it's likely because you already wrote past the end of the scene and wandered too far from the more logical transition point, and you should go back to the last time the writing felt "unforced" and cut everything after.

You can also just skip the transition. Really good writing can span years in a single sentence, like you can just authoritatively state fact and your reader will go with it.

xalphafox

This is GOLD! You just saved me like thousands of therapy costs lmao

headspace-hotel

When I was writing my fic last few months the strategy I used was "just skip all the scenes I don't want to write" and it worked great in my opinion

hollanovhateai

ohhh man. apparently when you copy+paste stuff directly from claude into ao3 it includes code. which anyone can find. people have found it in big, popular fics in multiple fandoms 😬. also heated rivalry; some of which the authors fervently denied using AI. link to thread.

link to their complete findings for those without twitter

starlitkai

writing dialogue? easy.

describing where everyone’s standing during that dialogue and adding action tags? impossible.

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wintersongstress

wilf (wip i’d like to finish)

exhuastedpigeon

The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?

xiaq

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

sparrowsfallingfromthesky

me: yeah I'm pretty close to finishing this fic

the fic:

dean-colette-deactivated2026050

controversial writing tip

open a document and start writing

henderys

unrealistic. blocked,

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rylandgracie

i love getting a good grade in fic commenting something that is normal to want and possible to achieve

fellshish

@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? What’s the bar?

sherl-grey

actually writing the fic down

shakespeareaddict

ao3 tagging isn’t always intuitive and some tags are highly subjective but some are really really not. If I see “mutual baby trapping” I’m expecting two people in a situationship who’d rather engage in absurd manipulations and shenanigans to obtain a baby rather than communicate clearly “hey I want to be serious with you”; if they’re *already talking about marriage and kids* then it’s not babytrapping. If I see Underage I am expecting at least one Mrated scene with a minor, not “two teens kiss but don’t even get to second base”. If I see the big Rape/Noncon tag and then the authors note says “the Rape tag is cause they have sex while A is slightly drunk” then I am backing out of the fic and never trusting your tagging again!

Like! Tagging is for two populations—the people who explicitly want to see X and the people who explicitly don’t want to see X—and neither population is served by overtagging! If there was a fic tagged, idk, “Swedish Politics” because in one throwaway line someone mentions Sweden has political parties, I’d be upset if I was looking for Swedish Politics and this was all that came up. And I’d be just as upset if I was filtering out fics with Swedish Politics and missed the perfect fic that was overtagged!

kazzzistired

Feeling inspired... Might put off writing and think about it the whole time

literallymechanical

Lots of writing advice on tumblr. It's been years since I've written fiction in a serious way, but I did write a couple of (bad) novels in my early 20's, a bunch of short stories, and also a few hundred thousand words of LARP writing, and I do have a bacherlor's of science in creative writing (lol).

From what I can tell, there are only three universally applicable pieces of writing advice:

Read a lot (mandatory)

Show your writing to people (mandatory)

Have something wrong with you in a way that is impossible to articulate except by writing a novel (optional)

mslanna

I think this one is also important:

4. write

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phanerozoicfossilgardener

As a writer I need everyone to know that whenever I write "exchanged glances" my intent is this

oldbutchdanielmolloy

has anybody heard of writing / knows anything about how to do it

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