Writers Problems - Blog Posts

That moment when one of your MCs makes a decision you hadn’t planned on and now you both have to live with the consequences of her actions

Literally the most relatable thing. Only Ao3 writers get it.

As a writer I don't plan anything. If some inspiration hits me, I'll just write it out. All my plot lines and different storylines are a blur and I can't tell which is which.

And yet I don't want to organize anything at all.

i hope that our few remaining readers give up on that unfinished wip from seven years ago

and i hope we come up with a failsafe plot that piss off the dumb few that keep commenting all the ways they'd write it differently

in my life i hope i lie and tell everyone the next chapter will be out on time

and i hope i write (i hope we all write)

i hope you write (i hope we both write)

writing tip: don’t tell us your character’s backstory. don’t tell us what your character is thinking. don’t tell us what your character is doing. don’t tell us anything. the reader should simply look at a blank page and be suddenly overcome with emotion.

sometimes i wish it didn’t take me so long to rediscover my love for writing. it’s something i LOVED as a kid. i loved books and was so mesmerized by the fictional world. then that love got lost as i grew older and i only just started rediscovering it almost two years ago.

can’t help but wonder how much closer i’d be to my writing dreams had i rediscovered my love for it sooner or never lost it to begin with.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

The life and the dream in Chicago.

After all, writing isn’t the whole damn world. Fuck this writer’s block.

I’ll walk around, watch Béla Tarr or Andrei. I’ll call Joyce she never runs out of words.

Or I’ll sleep it off, because I refuse to let a blank page make me consider the unthinkable.

Me: I don't know what to write next. Like it has to be interesting. If it doesn't entretain me what can I expect...?

Mi dirty mind: So add smut.

Me: Yeah, that will do.

I've read a lot of people discussing writers or readers block BUT what happens when you have BOTH? It sucks.

I'm not sure what is more frustrating about AO3 being down all day: not being able to read a fic or not being able to post a new chapter? :(

I was afraid that ending a romantic relationship might take its tool on my ability to write romance.

It did, but not as bad as I expected.

She still inspires me.

Not that she truly knew it before but she still does.

To the girl that brought me chocolate because she thought I might like them despite it being such a romantic gesture (she used to say she wasn’t a romantic person, but very deep inside she was the sweetest).

To the girl that loved me in such a pretty way.

Being loved by a her hit so different —or maybe I just haven’t been loved that right before.

I made up with love these days.

And I hope I still catch pieces of her in myself and my writing.

So I gave up trying to restraint myself and I spent like four hours writing because “I deserve it” and “if you can’t beat them, join them” (and by them I mean my own head)

When did writing become such a reward?

And the main thing providing me dopamine

Now I’m happy and sleepy

Tomorrow I will study, since I got it out of my system for now. It feels nice

That deep desire to write when you can’t it’s killing me

Planning or daydreaming can only scratch that need to a certain point

And I’m not that much inspired to get it out easily

It’s more like “wow how much I wish I could spend all the afternoon cracking my head up until I find the right words”

I don’t know which fic writer needs to hear this but it’s unreasonable to expect of yourself to write all the story ideas that your mind comes up with. That’s not how creativity works! Unless you’re some kind of Productivity Georg that types at a laptop keyboard all day long, your mind just needs to rotate ideas and concepts like a room full of rotisserie chicken production lines. Some of them will end up being fully written, some of them will end up being 4 lines, some of them will be concepts inside a long list of fic ideas that will never get written, some of them will just fade. And that’s okay! You don’t have to beat yourself up for having a lot of ideas you don’t write, or a lot of wips you write a few lines or pages of and never finish. You wouldn’t expect an illustrator to just churn out full-ass paintings all the time, an artist will also just make sketches, line art, warm-up exercises, will just scribble some lines on a piece of paper. Your ideas and wips are just the same thing: warm-up sketches, exercises in creativity. And it’s also okay if you never really produce full fics, as long as your brain enjoys the exercise. Jogging across the neighborhood is not useless unless you win a marathon! It gives you endophins and strengthens your muscles and is healthy for you all around, right? Your fic ideas and pile of wips are the jogging. They give your brain the happy chemicals and exercise your creative muscles. You are not a failure for not turning your ideas into finished products. That’s just how it works.

When you get ready to write a short, nice, simple High School AU but after making a summery it turns out that the story is not gonna take an hour and a half to write but a day and a half...

A Bit of Help Needed

Ignoring that last line in the gif, I do need a deep breath for this post. So I have been dealing with writer's block for a while...like two year really and I'm kind of getting tired of it cause I have a bunch of story idea that I want to write, but i refuse to start anything else until I finish or at least get back to writing a few chapters of the fics I have active.😓

That being said I am kind of stuck on a few as to what direction to go in. I've asked a few people but had no real feedback and no one really leave comments that are helpful on AO3 so I figured that i would put it here too. For context I write anime fics mostly in the Daiya no Ace fandom. I also do some in Haikyuu, Free!, and Kuroshitsuji. I even have a few fics with more than one fandom in it which sounds crazy, but with the characters and their personalities it really works out some how!😁

So anyway, I'm going to leave the links to the five fics that I am working on currently and if anyone reads them and has some feedback or ideas it would be so appreciated!🤗

Locked on Target (This one I am looking for a new title for as well)

The Parent Trap

Neko Shonen to Tanuki Bastard

Alpha For Sire

Sweet Things Come in Threes

There are tags for each one but if anyone has any questions as to what the tags entail or how much they matter in the fic let me know here or a DM! Either way thanks for the feedback in advance!😉

Writer's Rant

One of my anime's today is delayed so I thought I would take a moment and get something off my chest. 🤔

I have been going through my newer older writing meaning when I started writing anime fan fiction and I noticed a lot of stuff that could use improvement that I have learned over the years. I wonder if it would be smart to either re-edit all the new old fics or to repost them with the changes and maybe get a new audience for them.😬

Is that considered cheating in the writing world or have other people done this in the past. I know when i say edit I don't mean a few changes I mean something major changes to whole chapters so technically some of the fics could be considered new?😳

I mean its not like i'm doing this in order to get new readers or anything even though I feel like some of my fics were misunderstood cause they are 90% AUs cause that is how i write and I don't like to put myself into a corner of certain characters only being able to be certain types or always as wholesome and clean as the anime makes them out to be...😵

I'm lying to myself aren't I? I mean what writer does not want a chance to breathe new life into their work and gain a new audience in the process. I guess as long as I am transparent about it to the readers it isn't exactly lying...right?😶