a lot of authors are nicer and/or more offline than i am bc if you screenshot my fic for a dumbass reason and put it on this platform i promise you i’m going to create a ratio that WILL hurt your feelings
I love reading my own work. It is the thing I am probably most shameless about and it's not even that I think they're the best stories ever. But I have always written the way that tickles my brain and my heart in the best ways, why wouldn't I keep going back to read them?
back with bonus thoughts about different motivations ppl have for writing
this is gonna be an oversimplification, but some ppl are artists, some are entertainers, and some are fanatics (in that they're compelled to get the words out by any means necessary)
i cannot stress how incredible it is that times square has been all cleaned up by 8 am. those mfs lit a fucking bus on fire on42nd street. the knicks work hard but nyc sanitation works harder.
I genuinely don’t look at kudos when I’m reading fics. I consistently stay in the most recently posted filter so half the stuff I read only have 4 kudos anyway because it was posted yesterday 🤷♀️
I feel like a lot of people are replying with "write for yourself!" where my solution to this would be relentlessly write and post while engaging with community and making friends till people read your stuff 😭 idk I just shove myself in front of people's eyes again and again
The best advice I can give is to find that 1 person that's just as unhinged as you about what pairing/character you like and farm dopamine by writing with the intent to show them your genius. Then share it with the world too I guess- as a treat.