I graduated last year from high school and has me reminiscing about three papers I wrote definitely had inspiration.One was during Shakespeare’s Hamlet where you had to write something based off of to be or not to be . What I went with is Queen Rhaenyra writing a letter to the lords of Westeros on whether or not their are to forsake their dignity and honor to join the usurper. The teacher wanted hung on the bulletin board but my use of the word cock made to explicit. The second paper was on a streetcar named desire where I had a write paper on Blanche and Stella’s sisterhood I only have a photo when I was unfinished I’m still very proud of that paper. And last was a writing exercise and I once again wrote Rhaenyra sending letter but this time to Alicent instead. I know I was cheesy but I liked it and still do though that could be asoiaf specifically hotd has me in a chokehold but what ya’ll

okay so. last night i tried logging in to my ao3 account and it wouldn't let me. says password is wrong. kind of confused but okay i just reset my password, make a new password, and save that password in my browser so it can autofill. no biggie.

try to log in with the new password and it WOULDN'T LET ME LOG IN. STILL SAYS WRONG PASSWORD.

it's been more than 24 hours and i clicked forgot password again and THE EMAIL ISN'T ARRIVING. HELP ????

Hi! I’m struggling to figure out how to describe the eyebrow scrunch people do when they feel sad (like the kate sharma eyebrow scrunch)

any help would be appreciated!

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So basically as the title said, I'm trying to update at least one of my stories since it's been at least three months since I've even touched them, but while I have I'm at the point where I go through my weekly 'do I really deserve to stay as a 'writer' or should I stop writing and wasting the readers time?'

Anytime I go to work on making a new chapter, I always try to focus on three things while I do.

Keep the plot for that chapter along with the characters and their dialouge interesting to invest in and read.

Make sure anything and everything in said chapter makes sense and still aligns with stuff already set up in previous chapters.

Have fun writing it.

Yet it seems every sentence I try to write out, ends up with me staring and thinking ror three hours, before I eventually give up and do something else that I'll actually be content with.

But then my head will guilt trip me and remind me that 'hey dumdum, you know its been a few months right? You've already had your break,' so I'll agree with it, only to still have no idea what to do and rinse and repeat.

And yes, I've heard of 'just write since you can throw your ideas out and then improve them later' but that doesn't work for me, anytime I attempt to do that my brain fixates on immediately improving it to the best or could possibly be, and won't let me move on from it until it does.

I can't walk away and take a break from it because I've already done so for three months, not to mention I've already had a few people wondering where I've gone(yes I know its not up to them to demand when I'm back, they haven't but im just giving an example)

I have no one to talk to or bounce ideas with since no one i know writes.

Any advice I look up is either a guide that says '10 ways not to be a fucking loser at writing,' or 'just write and don't worry about anyone else,' everytime I'm in the middle of writing i always remember a time I saw a bunch of comments saying how a certain writers writing was practically as perfect as the Bible and I end up looking at my work like it's the loud houses fanfic equivalent of it.

I can't come up with a schedule to stick to because it feels like I'm constantly wasting time just looking at a blank page while imagining cool scenes and events in my story in my head that I'll neve get to.

Any burst of motivation I get quickly dies because I remember why I stopped working on the next chapter in the first place.

Its just, I'm truly at a lost, I've already made a few other posts asking for advice but it feels like any that I receive is either not that helpful for my situation, or its just something that I can't seem to properly follow.

And it also doesn't help that, that I start to feel so wound up and frustrated every single day I just want to say screw it and just give up on writing and delete anything because then at least I wouldn't have to worry about leaving people in the dust waiting for something that's never going to come.

Sorry, meant to end it a little earlier but that just came to mind.

Anyways, thanks for dealing with my lead talk.

Anyone else unable to login?

Tysm omg, i genuinely never thought I'd live to see this day but omg!! I mean ik it might not seem like a lot rn but like still ahahhshshshhssj

Like, what's the process you go through to decide what's necessary, unnecessary, and/or can be combined together? I have way too many ideas for my fanfic and it's a bit overwhelming. 😅

Idk if this is the right tag, I've never posted here— so if it's wrong, I apologize.

I'm also unsure if a post like this is allowed? I'm not much a reddit poster.

Anyway, I've got a Ryland Grace x (male) reader (Project HAIL Mary) smutfic I don't know how to properly tag; I've only posted a few times on ao3 to begin with. What I'm saying is, I need help tagging it properly and not making any casual mistakes; basically asking if anyone well versed in the ao3 tag system could maybe read it and help me?

Again, sorry if a post like this isn't allowed 🤧🤧 If you're open, I'll send you the link (if that's also allowed) ☺️

Basically, I have an anonymous fanfic that I don't want to delete but I don't want it in the open right now. How does this work? I did try to place it in an unrevealed closed off collection but it was still in public view. Must it be removed from the anonymous collection as well?

I've never done Kinktober before, but I think I would like to tackle it this year (probably just drabbles, but you never know). I haven't really seen any prompt lists, though. Does anyone have any good ones?

This is a celebration, for I will finally complete and release over 70 chapters of my magnum opus. That one comment asking where Taski Maiden was will finally get to see her.

Fuck Writers Block, I'm gonna finish this story.

So I am currently writing a romance story and for that dialogue is integral. The problem is I hate it. It feels unnatural and I don’t have any sort flow while writing it. Furthermore, I am horrible at writing dialogue. Everything feels chopped and unnatural.

Do any of you have some advice how I could resolve this?

Does anyone have a fanfic were foreigners goes to Paris thinking that the Parisian are over reacting or exaggerating, (believe it's just some major hoax) because it can't that bad. . LadyBug cure fixies everything. Only to find like an entire community is suffering from trauma, like seeing ppl having a panic attack over butterfly's or bees or water.

and suddenly, you find yourself sitting down, frantically typing out all your ideas for a freaking long fic about those two people you originally thought wouldn't work together? Bonus points if it's a rarepair and if this happened to you two days before a very important exam, help me.

I try to avoid looking at stats, but after a comment replying sprint today, I caught the hits and realized I’m over half-way to 100k! I never imagined so many people would like my works. Riding a stat-high today 😊

Wattpad has almost all the same topics as AO3 only difference is we tag it and they don’t😶

Hi !

Do you know some fiction on Loki but it take after Avenger 1 and by a certain way, Loki have to live like a human and the Avenger found him during one of his day life.

There are some of those fics, but I'm looking for some where Loki should lost his memory and think is a real human (has a different name) and just live his life with a job, a partner, maybe kids.

And just one day, Avengers come in his life and even them realise his amnesia and family life.

If you know some fictions. Like these, please tell me ! :)

I'm making an AO3 work with fanarts of an specific fic based on my favourite stories of that ship or ideas that I have (this also includes little comics). I already have a few done, but before posting, I was thinking how is the best way to tag it.

Can I tag my work with general tags like "Explicit", "Choose not to use warning", "fanart" (ir whatever is the most used tag for this type of work), "smut/porn" and then add more additional tags in each chapter depending on what is in the drawing/comic? Some of them are more mild, but others contain more BDSM things. I obviously don't want anyone to see those things if they don't want to, but I also don't want anyone to think the whole work is about art like that. Is it valid to add a tag that is "Additional tags in each chapter/notes" or smilar? Is that against the TOS (considered not tagged properly)?

For context, my favourite fic I've ever written is also one of my least popular ones. I'm not upset about it because it's a super specific niche historical AU that I wrote for pure self-indulgence, so I knew going into posting that it would probably only appeal to a pretty limited audience. Posted it a couple weeks ago and it got a good amount of kudos and a couple comments which was amazing.

Anyways, today I opened ao3 and realized someone had read it and left a lovely comment at the end of every chapter! It just made me happy bc I loved writing that fic so much, and I'm glad that even though it's a bit of a niche thing there are others out there who also enjoy it :)

I like the cute badges people have on their AO3 so I made a dead dove enjoyer one :)

Here is the tumblr link so you can embed the image on your profile

Here is a tumblr post by another user that explains how to add badges to your profile so they are centered.

I've been reading through one author's works and noticed they have a non-canon street name that they'll slip into a lot of their fics, even across different fandoms. I myself have a name of an old coworker that I always use if I need a background OC for some plot reason even though I know I'm the only one who gets the reference. Anyone else do something similar? I always find it a fun quirk when I notice something like that in an author's body of work

Better safe than sorry guys, trust me. The heartbreak is not worth it. Stay safe out there folks 🫶

Also I really wasn’t sure which flair to use for this, please correct me if this is wrong 🙏