“is it true ao3 authors appreciate comments” is one of the wildest sentences i’ve ever read. is it true people like receiving feedback on their work? being told they did a good job? experiencing human connection?
this may be a hot take, but calling one of your fics a "flop" is sad. it just turns something you created out of love and enthusiasm and obsession and experimentation into a performance metric. engagement is neither a good nor a pure measure of quality.+
@ortholily i totally understand that but what i struggle with is like Writing those thoughts yk? idk i feel i don't have enough words to write or describe the character's world
sometimes i feel like i don't have enough words to write the inner monologue or descriptions of a character in a fic like i'll be belting out dialogues but nothing about what happens around it...make it make sense
@Peter_7u omg this is so beautiful and i get where you are going at! this takes having a
enough knowledge about the bg of your character so that even if readers don't see 100% of the back story but at least we can showcase some of it through these monologues
@rdhesselbrock i feel it does depend on story a lot! for me personally, descriptions always feel limited like okay what next what should i add more about this world here. i don't understand whether the writers plan it or do they just write whatever comes to them in that moment.
@savemehao like okayy what action will go here I've added everything swallowed, turned the head, walked towards, tsked, muttered, shook his head like now whatttt
sometimes there are crazy things happening in my docs and i wish it was out in the world already like you guys just HAVE to see what i've been cooking up!!!
writing fics as a non native english speaker is so fun. my spelling is british bc of school. my vocabulary is mostly american bc of what i watch/read. my punctuation is some rules i learnt on tumblr that idk what english they fit and others i hate and ignore. confusing EVERYBODY