#honestly writing a fic this short is the hardest thing i've ever done

[formosusiniquis]

caught flour handed

For the @steddiemicrofic challenge Prompt: cake | WC: 311 | G | no CW A Dustin POV steddie discovery, everyone's fave

Steve has been up to something for weeks. Dustin knows the only way to find out what he’s been up to: sneak in and go through his shit. He’s calling it sneaking too, because if he knows where the key is he doesn’t think it can be called breaking and entering.

He twists the front knob slowly so it doesn’t click in the latch, even mostly deaf Steve always knows when someone’s at the door. Eddie would say crouching before he’s even through the doorway is a dead giveaway that something’s up. But what does he know?

“There are more helpful places your hands could be.” Dustin freezes in place; his hand still on the front door.

“There are less helpful places my hands could be.” That’s Eddie’s voice responding, but his van hadn’t been in the driveway.

“You’re the one that said you wanted cake.” He’s too far from the kitchen to tell, but Dustin would bet Steve has his hands on his hips.

“What if I said I actually wanted beefcake.” 

Steve can be a bit of a ditz sometimes, but Dustin can’t imagine him getting cake and that confused. What would beefcake even be, meatloaf?

“I would say you should have said something before we got up.”

“I would’ve but y’know how you get when your mind’s made up, Sweetheart.”

“No, I don’t actually. Want to share, Edmund?”

“Only that delicious cake you’re making.” Dustin can hear Eddie’s feet moving on Steve’s tile flooring. He’s creeping up on the doorway now, but has to assume based on the giggling that Eddie was moving out of smacking range.

Moving even closer, Dustin can see Steve facing the oven. Two perfect, white handprints on the ass of his jeans. “Your child is lurking,” Steve says, “do you wanna tell him what you’ve been doing to his babysitter, or should I?”

#steddie #steddiemicroficaugust #steddie microfic #honestly writing a fic this short is the hardest thing i've ever done #the geography of steve's house is a mystery known only by the duffers but steve can see the street from his kitchen window in this canon #and he watched dustin bike down the street to try to spy on him #steve said i'm not gonna come out it will be much funnier to watch the curiosity kill this cat #anyway dustin gets a piece of warm cake a pat on the head and sent off to never think about what his two favorite almost adults get up to- #-when they aren't babysitting a bunch of 15yos

[pigeonwit]

hullo pidge!

ive got three for you: ✄ , ✦, ♡. i already forgot what each of them means, but i trust that you can check the list and know. (for the one thats about comments u can choose what fic its for xx)

also notre dame by paris paloma as vice vermin virtue is so accurate literally everytime i hear that song i think of triple v

sneep you really feed my need to just talk about things all the time and i love it thank you so much for feeding my inane ramblings.

✄ what’s your editing process?

,,, yknow i dont think i really have one? like for oneshots and stuff i just sort of write it all down and try to see if it all Works for the character's POV and the story i want to tell. i try to break it up into segments so i can look over it piece by piece instead of slogging through the whole thing afterwards (cause i hate that and hating it makes me rush through it and that's how i make mistakes) but that's kind of it - for oneshots at least. for stories that i intend to keep adding to i want to make sure everything's followable, like character motivations and mental states and etc etc, so i go scene by scene and REALLY scrape over it. i have a bit in rbr4 that i've revisited at least eight times now because it's just not QUITE getting davey's motivations down the way i want. and then once i'm done analysing all those sections and fitting them together, i normally go to @rebuke-me for beta-ing just to make sure everything's flowing in an understandable way. i don't really do first and second drafts because i've already been drafting every scene bit by bit, so when i'm all done i just proofread as best i can and send it off to jupes if she's not too busy. unfortunately i do occasionally make some little mistakes (repeating a word or phrase too much, mixing up my metaphors, some small grammar stuff, etc) and i have a PROBLEM of getting too bogged down in little details that don't matter, but fanfictions a hobby, not a profession, and treating it like a profession is always what ruins it for me, so i prefer my casual editing process. it's not perfect, but i wouldn't be enjoying myself if it was.

✦ what was your easiest fic to write & your hardest?

ayyy this is. hm. probably 'matches' since it was so short, and i had the idea just kind of pop into my head fully formed. it's literally just one snippet of jack and davey's lives so it was pretty easy to get down. and the hardest is absolutely 'run boy run'. it's every single davey thought i've ever had written into a loveletter to my own autistic experience, which is... taxing, and on top of that it's a bit of a struggle to keep davey's motivations and character clear without projecting too much of myself onto him. but it's my baby and i love it dearly, and even if i don't get it all out perfectly it's still going to be my most treasured fic.

♡ pick a fic and I’ll pick a comment that made me really happy

without a doubt this goes to the comment left by ao3 user 'tablesaltiv' on 'say you came on first (i think you came on fine)' - it's too long for me to feel comfortable putting it in this post, and honestly i'd feel a little vain even if i did, but it's probably the most reassuring comment i've ever gotten. i stopped writing fanfiction when i was around sixteen/seventeen due to a very VERY big personal spiral and didn't post any again until i was twenty. i was REALLY scared of posting 'say you came on first' because it was probably the most character-studyish thing i'd ever done before, and i was. very stupidly paranoid that i had completely misunderstood the characters and should just call it quits again - and then tablesaltiv left their very lovely comment saying that having seen the show live themselves, my fic felt entirely accurate. it was incredibly reassuring for me and filled me with a lot of confidence, and even though i know i'm never going to understand these characters FLAWLESSLY, i at least feel confident enough to think that i understand them well - and now i'm still here and writing a very ambitious fic that i'm worrying about a LOT, but i'm determined to finish anyways :) thank you tablesaltiv

(also - i know i can't REALLY count this since it's not on a fic like the ask game said but i have to say thank you to YOU, sneep, for saying that you think about one of my own silly little fanfics every time you listen to a song?? that's crazy to me. i can't believe that. that's so kind and meaningful in ways i can't put into words. like. holy shit my fic exists in your brain. i can't believe that. so yeah that made me extra happy too fshhs)

#sneep you are an incredibly encouraging person and hearing from you is wonderful :)) #newsies #ask #sneepsnoopboopideeboop #long post #fic thoughts

[seeingteacupsindragons]

For the ''drop me an ask about writing opinions'' thing— what do you find easier to write: long-length stories (such as a series), medium-length (novel), short (novella-length), or extra-short (short stories)?

Easiest: Short stories or flash fic. They just take less time and they don't need to have multiple subplots going, they have limited characters to juggle, etc. A lot of people have trouble condensing their ideas down into short form, but I've always been good and being concise and succinct.

Hardest: Novellas. It's just a weird length that I don't naturally hit very easily. I have...a couple. But most of the are on the edge of long short stories, novellettes, or short-ish novels. Long enough that you need subplots, short enough that they can't be important ones. Too short to break into Arcs, but long enough that it can't just be about one thing. It's just weird and hard and I don't like it.

Most Fun: Series. I have written very few "Multiple books on the same saga," for a variety of a reasons, but I do have a few Second Books out there, and I've often thought up ideas for trilogies or duologies or sagas that I wanted to write and never got around to for any of a number of reasons. It's a lot of fun to play with long form and all the different Arcs you can bring in when each book is an arc of its own. And I do write series of short stories, or novels with a whole bridge of short stories or novellas attached.

Least Fun: Novellas are hard, okay???

Most Common: Short stories, because they were what we had to write in all my writing classes ever because they had no interest in teaching you how to write a novel. Honestly, I don't think any of those teachers had an idea how to do that, anyway, and several were convinced if you learned how to be concise in a short story you could totally write a good novel, and that is one of the most absurd concepts...But I have double-digit novels in some draft or another lying around. And most of my early writing was always done with the intention of being a novel.

Least Common: Series, for the reasons I outlined above. There's a lot that goes into dedicating yourself to a long series, and when you're aiming for trad pub, actually drafting multiple novels in advance is actually rarely a good thing: you will have to make changes that cascade through the rest of the series, and you've put a lot of time and energy into One Thing when the first book might not even sell. Sure, the other new ideas might not, either, but you can't sell book two without book one, so there's a whole novel you can't even try with.

#writing

[panchatea]

announcement?

Idk if this is worth announcing honestly... but yeah I just wanna say that I will be taking a hiatus break. Yeah yeah i know I don't publish much ahaha more like i do publish a fic once a month but yeah hahah. What's the reason? Maybe its dumb but if you do care bout this blog then continue reading i guess.

I will be taking a break in writing like literally(hopefully). I mean I might not post consistently but I do write everyday ever since I started to learn how to do it for like half of the duration of my entire life, may it be fiction, poetry, journalism or any other stuff, I have not stopped and it feels like I never took a break so I got to the point of that I can't even finish a piece without struggling. I currently have like 6 drafts, if you think that is just a little then for someone who overthinks writing so much that I spend 1 hour on a paragraph then maybe that's a lot of time considering each of them averages 3 thousand words each. It feels exhausting, it feels like its an addiction that I can't let go of, it's like an unhealthy relationship with a game you've been playing for so long, you know it's bad for you but you still play it.

That's just not it, my life is taking a huge turn of events lately. It's something you don't wanna concern yourself but it's something that I would maybe just vent here. I need to do so much and I'm doing so much but it still feels lacking to what is needed for me to take care of what I must. My life never been easy but I guess this time it's taking a turn where it will decide what will happen to the next decades of my life and if maybe I can see the rest of my days or like engggkkk game over XD so I gotta work on that.

I love all of these, it might sound pretentious cause Im always saying that I don't care about notes, bout followers, and numbers but that's just me. Writing is something I do for myself whether you believe it or not. Writing is my second nature and it's my coping mechanism. I write when I'm sad, I write when I'm happy, I write when I'm stressed, I write when I'm going through the hardest stuff, and I write even when I don't need to. It's something that I've been doing for so long that I just cannot stop to the point that even though I'm feeling that I need to do take a break, I didn't and continued. I continued and continued until I couldn't even type words in my draft.

So that's why I'm taking this break to like give my head a cleanse of this drug. To maybe release myself to this huge responsibility that I put upon myself. And hopefully comeback and finish all the stories I want to share with you all. Maybe when I comeback, I will learn to enjoy writing because that's something I never really do, I don't enjoy it as much as the others.

Lately, I just get blue, I just get easily annoyed, I bitch around, I get negative, I get easily exhausted. In short, I'm so done with things hahaha. I've been here for a year now hahahaha so yey! So if we have been interacting all those times, you might know me as that guy who loves killing characters, who loves romantic butterfly fluffs, who loves tragedy, who jokes around and always have a laugh right after his chats. But I just can't keep that forever, I can't be lying to myself that I'm positive and fine while I encourage the others not so self-loathe. That's just ridiculous on my part and it makes me a clown hahaha.

HAHAHAHA so maybe Im ending this message cause I'm taking it too long. I won't disappear and deactivate, I will stay here and still answer asks and if you like to dm me then I will reply but Im suspending all the stuffs that I do here, mainly writing and making covers.

THAT'S IT! IF YOU ENDED UP HERE, I'M THANKFUL AND HOPING YOU A GREAT DAY!