“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

nothing more humiliating than misusing a word because i was remembering its etymological origin and not its contemporary meaning. like damn i guess this would've been really useful 700 years ago.

reblog with a spoiler for your wip with zero context. no context allowed.

a main character tries to murder their dad

Trying to write fanfiction for the first time is so humbling, it feels like I've never written anything ever.

writing tip #3781:

"i use ai to proofread!" shut the fuck up how about you use A EYE to look at it YOURSELF

Full offense but your writing style is for you and nobody else. Use the words you want to use; play with language, experiment, use said, use adverbs, use “unrealistic” writing patterns, slap words you don’t even know are words on the page. Language is a sandbox and you, as the author, are at liberty to shape it however you wish. Build castles. Build a hovel. Build a mountain on a mountain or make a tiny cottage on a hill. Whatever it is you want to do. Write.

Your voice is what makes your writing kickass. Do not do not do not strive to make it sound like everyone else’s.

This! So so so much this!

But especially this:

I don’t know who is out there telling y'all not to do these things but they should be taken out behind the woodshed and shot. I heard the same dumb advice when I was young and it pains me to see it still going around.

Only you can write like you. There’s no shame in copying or parodying while trying to find your style; we all do it. It’s like trying on a new outfit. But you don’t wear the same outfit as the mannequin at the store, you assemble your own outfit. If you’re really gung-ho, you tailor your clothes to be flattering to specifically you. Apply the same principle to your writing.

If you read the fic, leave the kudos. Leave a comment too, if possible. Just do it. It takes a few seconds of your time and it means the world to the writer.

Sincerely, me who just got told that my writing feels like watching a blockbuster movie. I don't care if they were sincere or not, I'll be thinking about that comment for the rest of my life and every time I feel bad about my art, I'll remember that someone once liked it.

No matter how much you dislike your own writing, I promise you it’s better than AI

first time writing fanfiction of a character : uughh i hope this is all canon accurate... it cant be canon innacurate at all or the enitire fandom will throw rocks at me...

10057th time writing the character: heres them working at a mcdonalds

specific tropes in romance that always heal something in me that it never broke

hey if you're the type of writer that's like me where you tend to write specific scenes first that vaguely weave together into a plot, you might like using obsidian as a writing app.

my frustration with other writing applications is that i will write my scenes out of order and it's hard to move things around and rearrange them on a regular document.

but with obsidian there's this canvas feature where you can just write all your scenes and plot moments on these little cards that you can freely rearrange. you can color code them and connect them too.

here's the canvas i've created for my current multi-chapter fic: (if you zoom in you can see all the text in each card this what it looks like zoomed out)

as you can see, i color code them based off chapters and will group them next to a document card with the working title of the chapter. anything not color-coded are scenes that don't have a proper place quite yet or it's just world building references. this app can also be good for note-taking and collecting research!

best of all, it's FREE!!! the only downside is that if you want your stuff to sync across devices, you do have to pay for that. i constantly hop between my laptop and desktop so i pay for the syncing. but if you write on only one device it's completely free! EDIT: some reblogs have mentioned that you can apparently link your own personal cloud storage (dropbox, gdrive, icloud, etc.) to obsidian for free! that way you can access your obsidian vaults across multiple devices without the extra fee. i don't mind supporting the devs but just something to look into if costs is a concern.

i typically use it for organizing my thoughts for a first draft. once i get all the scenes arranged and mostly written out, i will copy and paste them into ellipsus (also free & highly recommended as a google doc alternative) so that they're all in one document that i can edit.