#but like. how much detail is necessary

[autisticlancemcclain]

Could you explain your position on Shallura? Since Allura was established as a teenager when she started dating Lance and Shiro was very clearly an adult. I can understand the bi shiro headcannon but the shallura thing worries me

i am going to remind yall that i have been in this fandom since 2016. and in the early seasons, allura was not established as a teenager. in fact she was coded as older, as closer to shiro's age -- there was a specific divide between her and the younger paladins that she did not have with shiro. they made her younger (both explicitly and in mannerisms) as the show went on. and i do not give a fuck about voltron like...post s4 and i didn't even watch s7-8. so like. especially with older fics, im going to enjoy shallura.

#also this is less relevant and i was going to put it in the main post but i cant find the words for it #but i found your last sentence kind of condescending. “the shallura thing worries me” as if i am your little project and things arent going #to plan. as if you are the Knower Of All Things and i am straying from my path lol. twas odd #and this is a controversial thing to say i know it but like #we take fandom way too seriously. if someone decides in fic to make two characters the same age to ship them or whatever. do we really need #to get the torches and pitchforks. like i can understand discomfort when people ship like shiro and pidge or something but. also. i feel #like you can just block and move on?? like i dont ship sheith bc they are brothers. to me. but also i dont think sheithers should be #harassed or any dumb shit like that. i think its so so whatever like theyre Lines man theyre moving lines #at the same time i understand that peoples headcanons can be reflective of their worldviews (like when racism/transphobia/sexism shine #through someone's headcanons/characterization) but how much scrutiny is too much? when do we get to remember that fandom is a place to #work with the FICTIONAL? where you can change details without consequence? i saw a fic where keith was the older sibling and shiro was the #younger once. it was a good fic. how come we can play with ages but only when the Fandom Council approves? #i guess this is a really long and clumsy way to say like. you do not own the fandom nor do you get to dictate my work. and while there #is always room for necessary criticism please also think critically before you post your criticism #anyways #rant #ask

[spotsupstuff]

Are ancients actually anemones? Are they a group of anemones that became bilaterally symmetrical separate from other bilateral organisms?

oh you ask such things of a non-native english speaker who isn't even that deep of a biology nerd...

i understand what bilaterally symmetrical means, i googled it n i get it now, but how does the. sentence of them becoming separate from other bilateral organisms comes into place. do you mean evolved into the leading dominant species on the planet and therefore being separete from the others?

oh-! or is it more on the subject of Everything Else in this world is some kind of insect/arachnid yet They are Anthozoa?

i actually got That figured out n was one of the main things i was lookin into while trynna figure them out- here's me ponderings from my n Shkiki's dms on the subject:

on the question of: if the rest of the fauna has adapted to this new oxygen rich environment, why haven't the ancients?

i'm thinkin that this world got "this is so fucking weird, it might as well happen"-d in the form of evolution through the Respawn Mechanic. the animals didn't exactly have a choice but repeatedly die until they learnt to somehow deal with it (and if physically then so be it), while the Ancients adapted by creating the rebreather masks

#Spot says stuff #rw #dont try to make Too much sense out of this at some points i just look at the stuff that dont entirely make sense and go 'oh fuck it' #i was readin the sea anemone wiki page while finalizing the ancient designs so i couldve added Some details if necessary n i kept seein- #-Some stuff while also tryin to feckin figure out how the shit did some goddamn polyps grew legs n evolved complex brains n just went- #'ooouuuKAY! ALRIGHT! fuck it. this is NOT supposed to be speculative evolution irl class we are BALLIN in here. this is meant to be FUN- #-and everytime i dive TOO deep into logistics like this the fun for me evaporates. lets just move on' not everythin of mine is gon make- #-100% scientific sense cuz i simply aint about that n dont Want to be about that. srry if this comes off as unreasonably self-defensive- #-but i really dont want anybody comin in here expectin n then demanding that kind of stuff from me when this whole thing is Specifically- #-for My serotonin production. just gon state that.

[archorcist]

thinking about adam's heaven takeover verse ...

#-ˏˋ ━━━ ( out of character. ) #This is what I call it rn but ... NOT EXACTLY HOW IT SOUNDS. #This is so messy cuz it was a random idea ... but hey. #I wanna scream about it #It's heavily canon div and a survival verse. It's like an Overlord verse but the Heaven equivalent. #At some point after Ep 8 Adam turning the exorcists onto Heaven / the Seraphim in a lil coup moment #Takes up that position of power so no one can set rules on him and his extermination plans #Maybe a diff position in Heaven's hierarchy but until its explored more in canon... Powers/authorities is most likely where I place him now #As they have dominion over evil forces. He abused that anyway but now to a higher degree. W the power he #gets a bigger and more angelic form w the 6 wings n crown esque Halo and it's just so cool in my sketches. I'll have to do a digital versio #when I write about it in more detail but Like. GIMME HIS DOUCHERY but AMPLIFY IT. #Maybe it has smth to do with Lilith and their deal idk yet I don't wanna do too much in case canon later disproves it to an extreme degree #Dunno how God factors into it yet. Until we know if he's like Lucifer. Just letting stuff happen and not really getting #Involved until its necessary #But yeeeeeeeeeeah haha

[age-of-moonknight]

“The King of Killers - Book Two, Chapter Five: A Day in The Park,” Punisher (Vol. 13/2022), #11.

Writer: Jason Aaron; Pencilers and Inkers: Jesús Saiz and Paul Azaceta; Colorist: Matt Hollingsworth; Letterer: Cory Petit

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #latest release #Punisher 2022 #Punisher vol. 13 #Moon Knight comics #Moon Knight #Marc Spector #The Punisher #Frank Castle #I really appreciate the detail of Marc’s brass knuckles shattering on Frank’s chin #but also….yeah the dialogue #Makes me wonder how much of Marc being invited onto this ‘Get Castle’ task force was because of his propensity for *ahem* #extensive violence the like of which would probably be necessary to bring Frank in #or because of this dynamic right here #that if anyone would know about being used by cosmic entities it would be the guy in Avengers-mandated therapy for the whole #Age of Khonshu debacle #but frankly yeah it may be just one panel but it takes me back to waxing long-winded on Marc’s struggle with that fine line #between being useful and being used #between being fated as in destiny and fated as in manipulated #good times

[samglyph]

More Arthurs in between work. Top right wasn’t even the sketch originally but then episode 18 came and hurt me physically so I had to adjust accordingly.

#malevolent #apologies for my handwriting #but i guess it hurt Arthur even more huh #I’ll be here all week #arthur malevolent #john malevolent #malevolent fanart #malevolent podcast #my art #fan art #hey do you ever notice how much John just says Arthur’s name #like so much. so much more than necessary #what does it mean. what does it all mean #edited for close ups so the details and text is a bit easier to see

[fandom-fae]

honestly. on one hand. i really really really like the version of peter pan from once upon a time, in the way that the actor does a phenomenal job, the character has great dialogue and is just overall really really enjoyable to watch imo. but then i remember how he kept wendy in a cage for like 300 years and like

i stan him but that is so. AGSJDHJDHDJ. like i feel SO BAD for wendy there. this poor girl honestlyyy. like. that’s so disturbing honestly. like i can’t imagine much things that would mess with someone’s psyche more than that. like if he had just kept her on the island then fine, but constantly in that tiny hanging cage??? big OOF.

like i’m sure she’d need like permanent therapy afterwards and even then how would you even begin to unpack that in therapy???? like??????

#like pan ily but was that necessary????? #the worst part abt liking villains is when they do stuff like that ahdkndkfnfkf #(that part is a joke. just to be clear) #like idk he’s so cool but that makes me side eye him anyway. also cuz like? what was that like?? like was she just kinda there or did he/the #lost boys actually interact with her? on a regular basis i mean. other than giving her like food and whatever. and like if yes. then how did #they interact? was it taunting her? more civil? maybe with some of the lost boys even friendly? or just plain threatening?? #like there are things that are way more outright and obviously cruel but this is like probably the worst thing he’s done bc its so prolonged #like abandoning rumple was bad already. but he couldn’t have known that that pain would last for hundreds of years instead of a few decades #and the thing with killian’s brother liam was also not great (i don’t remember the details of that scene so idk rn if he told them about how #the water works exactly or not so idk if he was being a total bitch or if they just didn’t listen) but either way liam’s pain was also not #that long yk? like he died and that was that. sure- killian’s grief was v v long but idk if i’m counting that bc he’s not the one that was #directly hurt yk? anyway yeah. AND THEN THE THING W WENDY. like taking her as a hostage is one thing but doing that for iirc THREE fucking #centuries in such a tiny ass uncomfortable looking cage???????? that’s ridiculous #like i can’t even fathom how much her psyche would be messed up by that irl #moi #fandoms #ouat peter pan #ouat wendy darling #peter pan ouat #wendy darling ouat #once upon a time #ouat #hajshdifjjdjd #sorry for the rant but it was fun and will happen again <3

[dandyshucks]

piplups are typically proud pkmn that are difficult to bond with, so I've been thinking again about what it was like when Junebug first met Henry, their starter 'mon... (cw for vague-ish abuse mentions)

Junebug is incredibly patient and often gives people more grace than should ever be extended to a person (will put up with a lot of incredibly cruel behaviour from others and make excuses for them), so being patient with an initially stand-offish Henry would be not a problem at all. they are also big on researching so they'd have known what they were getting into, even as a young child, when they chose piplup to be their starter.

anyways Junebug quickly realized he didnt like being in a pokeball, so they stopped doing that and put the pokeball up on a high shelf where neither of them could reach it to show they weren't going to use it with him. and he slowly started to trust them more and open up to them more after that - it was a key moment that marked the beginning of Henry considering them to be a potential friend.

when they first received Henry from Rowan (who I imagine travels around the region with a bunch of starters to educate kids about how being a trainer works and get them started on their trainer path), they took him home in the pokeball as one does, and when they let him out once they got up into their room, he refused to even look at them for a good long while. oh the humiliation of being in a pokeball!

but the real bonding finally began once Henry had spent more time around Junebug's parents - they had tried to keep him away from their parents as much as possible to protect him, but ... hard to do when you are a young child living with them sbdjskl. it was a less than ideal way to grow close, but the two of them soon grew inseparable, supporting each other through the rougher times and cheering the other on as they both grew and learned, and covering for the other when someone slipped up. hiding or shredding journals, bandaging scrapes from forbidden ventures off the allowed paths, tucking away ill-gotten bits of food into hiding places, comforting each other after nightmares or after being reprimanded/punished, nudging the other if they're "misbehaving", standing look-out when the other needs to do something against the rules, etc etc etc.

making an intolerable situation somewhat bearable! bonding while stuck in an unsafe environment! growing up together while trapped under an abuser's thumb! the whole works !

#abuse tw #I've been avoiding bringing up any angst stuff but ... there is so much and it is stifling to avoid it entirely fjdkdl #i could say smth abt how my real life would be considered angst yadda yadda processing and talking abt it in a safe way yadda yadda #but fjdksl idk i dont think that whole speech is necessary #I'll give the proper CWs as needed and ppl can ask for more if they want #i probably will never go into like. actual detail bc honestly my brain goes staticky if i try to do that even in my own personal writing LOL #so it'll mostly all be pretty vague with some specific nods to things here and there #anyways yay henry :] he's such a sweet lil guy and i want to do more writing and art featuring him fjfkdl #I have so many thoughts abt all of my team but Henry and Greer are the ones who have the most Lore™ #junebug 🪲 #dandy.cmd

[mkstrigidae]

Apparently, the solution to my APWH writer's block was just opening up a new word document and rewriting the whole damn next chapter.

#I've been going back and doing some minor edits to older chapters recently- it's also been a necessary reread #because there are a lot of fucking details in this story #and it feels like i'm doing that thing where you spin plates on a stick but i'm spinning like 200 plates #just apwh things #this isn't just me being like 'i'm making progress again!!1!' for the thirty-fifth time either #like I have a full complete draft of chapter 16 that I'm about to start revising #shit's getting chaotic #there's not so much a chekov's gun as there is a chekov's whoopie cushion #i.e. a previously mentioned aspect of life at winterfell causes an objectively silly situation #but because this is me we're talking about- that silly situation quickly brings a lot of simmering things to the surface #there are a couple of fun mya conversations though which is good #sansa and mya's conversations are some of my favorites to write #because they're the only scenes where sansa isn't constantly second-guessing herself and kind of just is herself #the outside world is beginning to encroach on the Winterfell Bubble™ and ho boy is it a doozy #seriously i rewrote this entire fucking chapter and i'm so mad that THAT's what it took #anyways am definitely in the market for some beta-ing soon #and kind of need someone to bounce ideas off of because i am desperately trying to figure out #how to commit a hypothetical crime #and how to solve a cold case #send help lmao #I am prob going to make everyone extremely angry in a few chapters so enjoy the Winterfell Bubble™ while it lasts

[buckthefutcher]

out of nowhere thinking about how my fave lil detail in the magicians is Quentin having a hair tie around his wrist whenever his hair is down and long (deffo s3 and maybe s2?). i dont know why i find it so endearing from a character perspective but it’s just a nice signifier of a scruffy little guy who doesn’t quite care what he looks like who is just throwing his hair up and down out of practicality 

#like its not a necessary costuming detail? people could just assume he decides how to wear his hair in the morn in his room #but it brings just that little bit more life to a character and shows how much thought goes into it

[eats-the-stars]

Consider Machines Over Customers

don’t know how useful this is, but for people who hate the customer interaction part of their jobs, like, if you think that is the worst part of your job, consider looking for a job that does not involve you interacting with customers. the hard part is that all the “basic job that you don’t need a college education to get” kind of jobs that I could think of to look for on job sites were like call center work and waitress and hotel staff and front desk work and retail and, you know, customer service positions. so I was searching job sites with those key words and did not know about a lot of other options. namely...machines. yes, that’s right. turns out there are so many machines out there and they all need people to operate them. there’s also warehouse stocking jobs but i haven’t tried one of those so I can’t endorse or diss them. BUT...I am working a machine operating job right now and I actually love machines. they are great. they also have yet to yell at me about an expired coupon. i mean, sometimes they do complain about thread breakage or refuse to read a positioning mark that is RIGHT THERE, but still...I love machines. I also do not have to see customers at all. like, I know the orders go to customers eventually, but I do not need to help them place the orders or receive the calls when their package does not arrive on time. I just need to fill the order and I’m done. whatever happens next is out of my hands. actually...the delivery workers might be another “customers are not my problem” option. they pick up orders from us and I think they just need to whip those at the front doors of customers, but they don’t actually need to talk to them.

just...the main point is that I spent a long time stuck thinking that all the “non-career” jobs I could get required customer interaction. unless you were, like, a cook in the back or stocking jobs, and i can’t cook or lift that much. so my advice is...just try getting creative with the keywords you plug into job sites. I hit on my current job by pure chance, no idea why it showed up when I was typing in stuff like “front desk” and “call center representative.” If you want machine stuff, try typing in “manufacturing” or “assembly” or “operator” or “production.” I am mostly just throwing this out there into the void in case it helps anyone. I spent way too long doing customer service and hating how draining it was and how much I would dread going to work. but now I am shocked that I actually do not mind going to work. it is tiring, but only physically, and otherwise actually enjoyable. so...consider machines over customers.

#job stuff #i don't think most ppl are generally aware of these kinds of jobs #especially since whenever i mention that i'm an industrial embroidery machine operator #people tend to have no idea what that means or what i do #i literally needed no experience or education either. i think these type of jobs have a lot of entry level positions #and they did train me to do it and there's nothing that would require college education #i am not saying this is true for all jobs like this but i did spot some similar jobs on Indeed #usually it looks like they just require high school education #some look like they're more high end than others and give benefits but might require prior experience #if you wanted one of the nicer higher paying jobs that say 'prefer 3 years of manufacturing experience' #i feel like you could easily do a few years of a lower-paying 'no prior experience necessary' jobs like the one i have #and then upgrade once you've got the experience #also this may or may not be a factor in how much i am enjoying my new job but i am very autistic #so a job that focuses on attention to detail and sorting and matching and also colors and lots of repetition... #yeah it's like they made this job just for me as a treat #and i'm not saying your jam is definitely machines. just that i really love them but i never thought they were an option #for like your average person who did not get some kind of welding certification or engineering degree or something #because i did not do any of that. they just let me touch the machines right away #i'm not even good at math this feels like a sin #but i love these machines way more than i've ever enjoyed a customer interaction #so i highly recommend trying to look for more 'obscure' jobs that you didn't hear about during school job fairs #also some other jobs i did know about w/no customer interaction but have not personally tried #are data entry clerk and transcriptionist #also i love animals so i looked for jobs where i work with animals but no dice for me #i don't really want to work at a doggy daycare that's too high energy and lots of cleaning but i did consider it #my friend was a dog groomer for a while but that is also not my jam #oh and a lot of teaching assistant/teaching positions don't actually require an education #they seem to be always hurting for staff #my sister is an aide at an elementary school and she didn't go to school for that #hmm...janitorial jobs. landscaping. delivery

[unicornofgt]

re my most recent gtms post: y’all do not get to decide if it was uncalled for for me to acknowledge the last year’s worth of events. it is not up to you. you do not have to like how or that i did it: it is not up to you, i do not care how you feel about it. as i said in my post, i did not make it as a call out, i made it as an acknowledgement to move forward. and to the people whose reaction was “why didn’t you just say no/that you were uncomfortable”: re-evaluate that take. i am not interested in dragging this out further than it needs to be and will not be addressing it again.

#also a clear example of why i do not feel safe talking to her personally is how she reacted to this: #she still views this as something i did to her and not that i felt pressured and unsafe #and it is quite simply not my responsibility to reopen wounds to spell out for the person who caused them why they hurt #not to mention that post was never meant for her—she is blocked for a reason #it was not meant for her to find and read it was not meant to send hate her way it was just to acknowledge the elephant in the room #that is it. #and yeah i knew somebody was always gonna send it to her but i can’t control what other people do #it doesn’t change that it was never meant for her #but all of this is irrelevant bc even if i did talk to her privately that post would still be necessary bc the Point is acknowledgement #i could not continue about the Point Of My Blog (gt and my ocs) with this unacknowledged #and do not brush off what i have to say just bc she makes nice art and is nice to You #that does not make my experience illegitimate i cannot believe i have to say this #also people are saying i hate neurodivergent people bc she’s ND like ?? i am also ND it excuses nothing #not to mention she knows the personal details of my traumas that make boundaries difficult to set #but however much i struggled i DID set them and they were blatantly ignored #sometimes less than 24 hours after being reinforced #anyway as i said i will not be addressing this again but this post had to be made bc some of y’all desperately missed the point

[marioyuri]

Bisexual is transphobic vs pansexual is transphobic argument FIGHT

#yall r so annoying #personally im on that bisexual includes all grind idc about anything else #like i personally default to bisexual #i understand when pansexual was like. the same as bisexual but the difference was that like. bi means theres a difference in how u feel #depending on gender but pan means it feels the same everywhere. that was the one definition i didnt mind? but yk its kind of unnecessary #like i just dont think its really necessary to be hung up on so many details #and then when yall start being transphobic by involving trans ppl in these arguments its too much for me.. #overall i just findd this unnecessary. i kinda hate this trend of making a label for every single little thing #fun fact but its tied to the fact yall beed to fit everything into strict boxes with rules #its nothing i hate more #sexuality labels arent rulebooks .. their aids of expression #i try so hard to be understanding and nice but like its terminally online behaviour

[heartyearning]

i love you old bedsheets i love you calico cotton i love you scrap fabric i love you trying something out before you do it proper i love you adjusting patterns i love you having a process

#^ man who is lying #i mean i do love all of it but i dont have a process i do this like hardly ever #but im doing it now ! im doing it now . #got this fugly but delightful tan-gold curtain at the thrift store for 5 euros (theres so much of it it was such a steal) n now im going #all out on the creation of a little costume for my dnd character #im HOPING to have enough fabric for: an entrance coat. kickpads. basketball shorts OR the little inset on basketball shorts. details on a #mask. its a luchador btw my dnd character. his name's valentine bc ofc it is. #i think i can for sure get enough out of this fabric (cant stress enough how much of it there is) if i dont make the basketball shorts gold #and just use the gold as part of the sides but . i kinda do want the gold shorts just in general so we'll see #we'll see how the kickpads work out in general tho we might forego that entirely if necessary #i just hope not

[sadlazzle]

y r neurotypical ppl so rude and mean. they’ll say something unbelievably insensitive and mean spirited and then b like ‘oh i didn’t mean it like that tho :) it’s fine :)’ as if they didn’t just let u know exactly what they really think of u as a neurodivergent person

#im filling out some forms for some stuff at the minute n my mother decided to fill it in first without me #she asked me to read thru it today n add where i felt necessary #so i did. first issue she used PEN on the actual form to write a first draft which pissed me off #but then i notice she’s added some details of her own volition that i would not have approved of #n these little additions just get worse and worse and it’s rlly upsetting #like oh. okay. so that’s what u really think of me. that’s how u rlly see me #and now. bc she wrote it in pen. i can’t do anything abt it #i can’t change anything she’s written #n it jst makes me wanna cry bc i didn’t think she of all people would see me that way #i guess i was wrong. i guess i was wrong #i jst don’t rlly know what to do now. if she hated how i was this much why hasn’t she thrown me in a hospital somewhere yet? #bc after the shit she wrote it feels like that’s the next step #and that hurts even more bc she knows one of my biggest fears is being put away in some hospital #it’s rlly dragged my mood way down. i don’t rlly wanna speak to her #i tried to explain what was wrong w the forms but she started to get a bit defensive #and when she gets defensive she can be nasty n i don’t rlly wanna deal w that rn #plum.txt

[callmephighter]

idk what to warn this with?? gore I think

why does every dream I have with fictional characters end with them dying horrifically/getting otherwise severely injured I had a dream last night where I was writing my wip and sword grabbed (infected) rockets hands and when he pulled away the skin on rockets non prosthetic hand peeled off with it.. and then sword stared at his skin in his hand for a second and then screamed bloody murder and then I woke up LIKE WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ABOUT???? HUHHH

#I MEAN THE SONG THAT WIP IS BASED ON #MENTIONS SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENING #BUT I WASN'T GONNA WRITE THAT IN. NOT IN THAT MUCH DETAIL. I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS NECESSARY #rocket goes through enough in that wip he can keep his skin #gore #tw gore #ask to tag #this is kind of gross but idk how to tag this.. #body horror #??? #i tried not to describe it too detailed #because you get the idea #but tbh. that would be a cool scene if i toned it down about 500 notches and removed the whole skin peeling thing. #like sword looks at rocket while holding his hands and realizes that somethin aint right. that could work #im gonna cook. when i get the motivation to. hopefully #thats why im being so vauge because i genuinely want to write this wip. not in the way i was in my dream though

[ao3commentoftheday]

Do you have any advice and how to write a long fic?

I'll encourage long fic writers to add on in the notes, but as someone who tends to prefer short and medium-length fic, I'll tell you how I go about it.

Get a premise that you just absolutely love. You're going to be writing this thing for months, if not longer, so you want it to be something you're willing to spend a lot of time thinking about.

Embrace subplots. You'll have your main plotline that you want to see through from beginning to end, but you can also weave in some subplots here or there. The way I do this so that I don't get lost down a rabbit hole is that I always make sure that every chapter has at least 1 thing that moves the main plot forward and then if I want to spend 1-2K with some side characters doing something fun I can do that as well. Subplots can extend for the length of the full narrative, but they can also just last a chapter or three. If you're used to writing short fic, these might give you that familiar feeling of "completion"

A chapter is only as long as it needs to be. Don't get hung up on having a consistent chapter length. Don't get hung up on hitting some arbitrary number every time. Instead, figure out what the next part of your story needs to include and write however many words it takes to get that chunk across. Varying your chapter lengths is a normal thing to do and not something to stress about.

The next thing that I find important personally may or may not be relevant to you, but I find that I can't plot anything in much detail. If I get too into the nitty gritty with my plotting, it just feels like I've already written it. I need to keep it at the level of "And then A and B meet C and hijinks ensue." I can figure out the particular hijinks later. It's the characters meeting up that's the next important thing for me to figure out. Getting too far ahead of myself is a death knell for me in writing long fics, but there are other writers who swear by it. Test out different ways of approaching it and see what works for you.

As someone who tends to write more briefly, another feature that's common to longer fics is more extensive descriptions. People spend time painting visual pictures of the setting or the characters or the actions that are happening. Write the more bare-bones style that focuses more on dialogue (if you're like me) and then go back and read through what you've just written and see if there are opportunities to add in more detail. This can lead to some really interesting characterization choices and also help you out with worldbuilding.

When it comes to worldbuilding, you don't have to get it all on the page. You just need to share what's relevant for the reader in that moment and what is useful to lay out now so that it's already there in a future chapter. You can have an encyclopedic knowledge of how your world works in your head, but it's not actually necessary. No one is going to be quizzing you later - and if they do, you can always figure it out at that point.

Most important for me when I'm trying to get myself to the end of a longer fic, have a friend or a group of friends who are also into what you're writing - or at least willing to hear you get excited about it. Being able to get excited about your work is so important. It's like a bottle of water being handed to you on mile 10 of a marathon.

#asks and answers #long fic writers go! #and short fic writers who have successfully written long #how did you go about it? #long post