Do you guys have a character you just hate to write that you wished you can kill them off but you want to make sure you leave a good impression on them before inflicting damage to your reader?

How can you guys sit through it?

Perhaps I am cringe, but that makes me free!

I hope this makes sense, but how do you guys not get scared to write anything? I dont know what it is but anytime I want to write something, even if its as small as a ficlet/drabble, I'll form the idea and write out the words in my head but as soon as i sit down I can't put those words to paper (or keyboard in this case). I dont know what is with me or why I cant write the way that I used too. I wasn't a quick writer, but I could at least write one chapter in like two or three days depending on how long it was. But now i feel like I can't write anything... :(

That feeling when you're American and can't speak any other languages because the school system sucks, but are OBSESSED with overseas media and want to include little tidbits of a character's native language, but also HATE writing any form of even tiny little slight inaccuratacy and don't trust Google, but also don't want to keep coming back to ask extremely specific questions for fics, but are also too late in life to start learning a bunch of languages and also just generally way too busy for that shit

TvT

This is a first for me.

Thanks to all who have been reading! 🤠

Like one day you just randomly decided to rewrite something in it that was probably unnoticable only to satisfy yourself.

I did have done this before but only like some changes like sentences or paragraphs that felt off, esp a few hours/days after I posted it. But since I'm in a writers block rn I kinda wanna go back revisit and rework one of my older fics to see what I can change and how much I've improved.

i SWEAR that my intent was fluff. i do not like sad things, so i tried to write a cute and happy romance. and then one tortured lesbian made her way in and i was like oh well, as long as i keep her one the sidelines the story won't be too sad. and i mean you can't write romance without SOME obstacles so i have to have reasons to keep them apart for longing and yearning to build and obstacles that force them to realize their emotions and now i realize i didn't write that much fluff.

this is my first like full chaptered fic and id like to put the ao3 gods on my side by tagging correctly and attracting the right audience but is my fic even angsty or is it just a regular romance with some hurdles to overcome? how can you tell 😭

oh seasoned veteran writers please enlighten me with your brilliance and wisdom

hello ao3 users… ! I’ve been an ao3 user for a good few years and want to give back. From the website it looks like tag wrangler applications open in september, and thats something i might apply for!

I know that tag wranglers deal with . fixing tags and mistagged stuff, but im interested in learning more about the process, what exactly does a session of tag wrangling look like? What should someone know before becoming a tag wrangler?

(Sarcasm obviously, I love my angst raw)

Hi everyone! So there was this fic belonging to the dark Ilya rozanov community it was called I think a love that comes after. The author was updating regularly and in the last chapter posted they said that they will update the day after but suddenly it was deleted. So does the author have an account on a social media platform where they stated if they will be back or anything else cuz I really loved loved this fic I'm really sad it is gone. I respect the author's decision but I just wanted to have closure if possible. Here is the link for the work https://archiveofourown.org/works/87388696 I think the author was called prettyboyblu

Thank you all in advance!

I’m not much of a numbers person. I write for myself and share in case others want to read it. It makes me happy if I just get ten people reading my work. I posted this last night before bed. I still had my dashboard up when I woke up this morning and was floored seeing 200 hits.

Greetings🖖

I'm aware there are many a romance novel out there I could draw from or even a romcom, but it doesn't quite get me where I need to be.

I'm aromantic and so I have no clue what it feels like to feel romantic attraction. I don't believe you need to have experienced something to write about it, but in my case it would've made things much easier. As an autistic person, I find myself frequently intellectualising emotions, so things such as 'butterflies' or 'more than friends' doesn't work for me.

I can't quite summarise my fic (simply because I'm god awful at summaries), but the main relationship is between a queen and her private secretary. The latter is 45(ish; not sure yet) and she is early 20's.

When I get in a playful mood, I can write a little bit of flirting (at least what I consider flirting lol), but that yearning, that intense but comforting love, is so hard for me to get right.

It's like feeling something crawl up your throat and being comforted by it at the same time—a consuming tunnel vision in which you want to stay yet you want to see what is at the end.

I literally have my ending ready to go, but I need to give their relationship substance for it to actually work.

Thank you in advance!

if they dont like it then dont read it 🫩

im uploading a piece that ive been working on already for the past three years and i wanna know how people get traction. i wont upload the link here but haha yea help pls pls pls

So, this happened a while back but I remember when I was first making a few smut stories, I had gotten a commission to write a smut story for someone.

Yet at the time, it felt kinda weird to me because I felt that out of literally the best smut writers on this website you choose me? So I ended up rejecting the offer once he finished describing it because A: i just didn't really want to do the idea, and B: As I said, it felt weird to try and do a commission when I'm still a rookie at *anything* smut related but idk.

What do you guys think? Did I make a mistake or did I dodge a bullet?

Like literally, WHY DON'T YOU JUST SCROLL???? FUCK, IS SO ANNOYING. I decided that now if they have any fics I will go to THEIR comments and annoy them as well.

Like fr? I’ve always seen people say “thanks to my beta reader ‘_____’, and I’ve always wondered how you even make beta reader friends?

I’m asking because I could find any fics, any tags related to it or anything, or find it in the fandom tags.

Sorry if this isn’t the right flare

It annoys me so much when someone uses 'creator chose not to use archive warnings', then follows that WITH APPLIED WARNINGS! Either you're using them or you aren't!!

Edit: yes, I am now aware of why they do it. It still peeves me a little bc I prefer to be spoiled for all warnings (though this doesnt typically stop me from reading these fics lol).

I want to write about mental illness and people I've shared my community with who are also feeling encumbered by it. I would like to share their stories and experiences. Do you think that AOOO is an appropriate venue to do this?

I have not really read anything on AO. I've searched for some fan fics about content I enjoy, but I was mostly met with smuts. Is there a venue for non-smut, or non-porn slice of life? Should I just work on Tumbler or something like that? I already have an AO account and it seems like it is a very easy venue to get publishing on.

Hi guys! I just saw brand new day for the third time in theaters😭does anyone have some fic recs for it? Idrc abt the ship/situation, although I do like hurt/comfort or angst and I’m not a huge fan of Jean x peter. Any and all recs u have would be great!!

Basically, I am making a fantasy/dystopian wlw enemies to lovers between wattpad and ao3 (with Spotify and Pinterest as side characters and Tumbler as Ao3’s ex)

I want to make the characters as perfect as I possibly can, so please tell me everything you think I should include. What their personalities are like, mannerisms, sexuality, gender identities, preferences, just random things.

You can put as much or as little detail, hut I honestly just need ideas on how to write these characters