#like i haven’t touched my first drafts of my wip

[randomtacoscry]

WIP Wednesday

Okay, so I've never done one of these before, but I wanted to ask for some input on my wip so far. Be aware:

This WIP is far from published!

I just wanted to see how it did on tumblr and maybe try to see if anyone is interested in this kind of story. DISCLAIMER: I am not much of a writer (this is my first official fic- I have written unpublished drabbles and one shots though), so apologies if this sucks. (There is more below the break btw)

“Would it change anything?” Pete asks through a tightened throat and he doesn’t feel Tom’s hand shift, almost like he was expecting Pete to say this. Tom doesn’t answer, at least not verbally, but his eyes tell Pete everything, like they always have. 

It couldn’t. 

Pete and Tom knew the consequences of their relationship. They knew they would never be a regular couple, able to hold hands out in public, or tell friends and their jobs about their relationship. 

But I wish it did. 

Tom didn’t want this either; apparently it was up to higher powers to make both of their decisions for them, no matter what they wanted. Pete didn’t choose to lose Goose. Or Carole. Or to never know his father. And Tom never chose to live in a society like this; where he had to choose between his dream career or a secret that would tear both of their reputations to shreds in a heartbeat. 

Tom closes the distance between them, leaning down to place his forehead against Pete’s. Their breathing matches pace, clicking them together naturally, as if four months haven’t passed since they’ve been together. He feels Tom’s other hand come to the left side of his face, holding onto it like it’s the last thing he’ll ever touch, before the man leans in to press their lips together. 

Pete hates that he kisses back. Hates that his hands grip Tom’s forearms automatically before deepening the kiss. He hates that Tom moves his hands to Pete’s back and presses them even closer together, and that he knows he likes that. Pete lets himself grip the back of Tom’s shirt and he hates that Tom knows what that means. 

Tom pulls the plain gray shirt over his head before continuing to kiss Pete harder. He lifts the hem of Pete’s shirt, placing his cool hands on the warm skin of Pete’s waist, causing him to stiffen at the drastic temperature change. Pete needs Tom closer… he pulls his shirt off, pressing their chest together before finally breaking the kiss off. He rests his head on Tom’s chest, breathing heavily to catch his breath.

This is a bad idea.

Pete feels Tom’s breathing soften and he uses his forehead to push his head off the other man’s chest. He keeps his eyes down before (he already hates himself for this) pressing a kiss to Tom’s collarbone. 

“Are you sure?” His voice is just above a whisper and Pete feels weak for nodding his head ‘yes’. He looks up at Tom and they lock eyes. They both know what each other is thinking-

This is a bad idea…

Tom presses Pete’s chin up and leans down to kiss him and it almost feels like old times. Like they’re in their old, shared assignment and Pete is home on shore leave. Like their relationship is perfectly fine and they’re just enjoying their time together. Back then it felt like nothing was looming over the both of them…

Tom pushes Pete into his bedroom, barely breaking kisses before trailing a line down his neck.

I know this is only about 500 words (don't worry I have more), but I did NOT want to spoil some MAIN plot points. If you have any tips, ideas, or critiques, they are all welcome (whether anonymously, in the tags, or comments)! Thanks for reading! (This is also a first draft, so hopefully it will become more polished in the future.)

18+ below:

Also, any idea how to write M-rated? If anyone has any fics that can help me grasp how to write smut (not really explicit-level), that would be great. I literally have no idea what I am doing, but I would like to make this fic M-rated.

#icemav #top gun #top gun maverick #ao3 #ao3 writer #wip wednesday #current wip #work in progress #my fic #fanfiction #help meeeeee #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky

[tboygareth]

WIP WEEKEND

I was tagged once again by my loves @steves-strapcollection and @starryeyedjanai i rly need to buckle down with my current unfinished wip this weekend so i am ready to play!

THE RULES

In a reblog (or new post w/ rules attached), post up to five (5) filenames of your WIPs; not titles, file names.

Post a snippet from one of them. Snippet must be words you wrote in the last 7 days. We’re posting progress here. If you haven’t made any, go make some and come back to post!

After you’ve posted, people can send you an ask with one of your file names. You must then write 3 sentences in that file. If the filename is one you can’t share from (for example, an event fic), write 3 sentences on it anyway, and then 3 more on another to share.

That’s it! You can invite others to join in, or just post. If you tag me in your post, I will send you an ask request!

THE WIPS

Batter up! (steddiebang)

greatest hits (we need to focus on this one this weekend besties - i am trying to write the gratuitous smut for the last chapter but it's hard)

for the bit (fake dating au that will be taking center stage after bu! first draft is complete)

THE SNIPPET (NSFW under the cut)

Eddie is going to tremble right out of his skin. He lowers his body onto Steve’s, the wet tips of their cocks gliding smoothly over one another with each forward press. It’s building like a forest fire, this feverish heat, from the tips of Eddie’s toes to the root of his hair, and he’s going to go mad with it. 

Eddie can’t speak, can’t find his voice. For once in his fucking life he's speechless. Steve Harrington is underneath him, bare skin for miles, and all Eddie wants is to say something sexy but all he can do is look, because it’s the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen.

Steve gasps beneath him, “Don’t stop.”

Eddie thrusts against him hard, catching Steve’s hand with his own and lacing their fingers together on Steve’s pillow beside his head. Steve makes this noise when he does it, like he's being ripped apart and put back together all at once. Eddie is dizzy.

“Kiss me,” Steve says, and Eddie does. He kisses him deeply, draws Steve’s tongue into his mouth and he could kiss Steve like this forever. Doesn’t even have to breathe anymore. Fuck breathing. This is so much fucking better than breathing. 

Eddie doesn’t stop the rocking of his hips, and Steve is matching him thrust for thrust, bucking up against Eddie and crying out into his mouth. They’re leaking all over each other, there’s fire building in Eddie’s gut. His skin is tacky with sweat. 

Steve’s head tilts forward, like he’s trying to watch. “Let me see.”

Eddie pushes up, his arms burning from the exertion, and Steve watches as his cockhead catches against Eddie’s and pulls a moan straight from Eddie’s toes. 

He glances down at where their bodies are pressed together, their cocks lined up root to tip, slits shiny and slick. 

“Keep watching,” Eddie instructs, and he drags his cock against Steve’s. Steve gasps and moans, watching as Eddie instructed. “Look at that. Look how we slide together. Look how big you are, Stevie.”

“Fuckin’ Jesus,” Steve gasps, throwing his head back and spreading his legs further. Eddie opens his mouth, retort right there on his tongue, but Steve chuckles, “Don’t fuckin’ say it, Munson.”

Eddie wants to touch him. He wants to take them both in hand and stroke them together. It might be enough to get them there, just this, but he wants to know the weight of Steve in his hand, wants to know what he feels like, the kinds of sounds he’ll make when Eddie jacks him off.

not tagging anyone this time around bc my writer friends have all been thoroughly tagged i think, but if you haven't been tagged in a wip weekend post and you want to do it, this is blanket permission to say i've tagged you

#wip weekend #tag games

[bvannn]

Weekly Update March 29, 2024

I’m pretty volatile in terms of mood, but I did get a good amount of actual work done on projects. I’m exhausted, I haven’t fixed my sleep schedule yet because I’m addicted to working. Like I’ve genuinely tried to stop and go to be early or sleep in and I just always ‘just one more drawing, just one more verse, just one more thumbnail, it’s let me find this one perfect instrument, just let me finish these four bars, just let me-‘ and before you know it it’s two hours past bedtime and you haven’t even brushed your teeth yet. Or eaten dinner. On the bright side all the stuff I’ve done has gone pretty well!

First big exciting point, that little pitch comic I’ve been working on? Thumbnailing/writing is done. Done enough anyway. I might still go back to edit some pages but I can get going on others now, which is great because even though I’ll only post the full thing once I have the whole comic complete, I might post individual panels, so there will be stuff to see! I’m also going to try to keep writing at night, so I can let other episodes and stories play out a bit, but Art priority will be shifting more to the comic. It will be 30 pages so it will likely take a while, but I’m hoping I’ll be able to do 3 or so panels a week while I’m finishing up this semester and switch to a page a day once I have more time.

Music is also going very well. I’m putting the final mixing touches on a vocaloid cover song (unless I decide to go back and redo the guitar, which I might), which I’ll try to start putting visuals to soon, although that’ll likely be pretty slow since I finally got past the thing that was bottlenecking me on the comic project. I’ll also have to get licensing settled, although that currently looks to be affordable. The whole project has given me a taste for blood and now I want to do a bunch of other cover stuff, but good news: I also found a nearly finished cover of another song that I had put aside in favor of the Green Day one. That’ll probably take a while before I can call it ‘done’, though, whereas I could probably release the first cover song today if I really wanted. I have some time tonight where I’ll try to throw some music together, maybe I’ll work on that.

There’s a few smaller nearly-finished songs I dug up from the depths of my WIPs too, one I need to redo a melody line, one I was bottlenecked on finding a specific instrument for, which I did the other day in lab, and a few others that also either need structure or Melodies. Plus there’s those two that are waiting on lyrics still but I’m still chugging at that, just slowly. I might also try that one tonight too, if I finish or can’t do the vocal cover for whatever reason. There’s also a couple character themes that haven’t really been priorities but I did re-outline one that I’ve been working on, so once I have recording time I can go try that one. That one is on its third draft so I really hope this one will stick.

Other miscellaneous projects haven’t seen much progress this week. I’m still thinking things through for that epithet TTRPG campaign, but I’m having a bit of trouble outlining the third chapter. I just need more brain power for that though, so earlier bedtimes would do it. A couple other art things keep coming to mind but I’ve been focusing more on big projects, so that’ll probably continue if I can. This next week I want to focus on keeping my body as healthy as I can, and then comic, second cover song, and visuals for first cover song, in that order of priority. Passive projects I can work on while doing other activities will be epithet TTRPG planning, song lyrics, and outlining future comic stuff, in that order of priority. If I come up with any song Melodies or ideas for visuals for the song I’m finishing up those priorities might shift, but right now I want to stick to more of a plan, since it worked out well this week.

#weekly update

[ssahotstuff]

Hey, hope you're doing good today 😊. 🥸🛌💥 for your writers ask?

Ooooh yes gladly! Thank you for asking 🥰🥰🥰

🥸 Does anyone in IRL know you write fanfic or original fiction? If not, do you plan on telling anyone this year?

I haven’t outright told anyone but there are people on this app that know my identity outside of tumblr despite my account being faceless, if that makes sense! I try not to collide my writing/real life because I feel like most of the people I know would judge me heavily.

💥Is there a chapter, scene, or WIP you're most excited to write? Share a snippet or tell us about it!

Eeeek, okay I started this draft like 4 months ago and it’s Hotch x Heavily tattooed reader and he takes her to get tattoos because he loves watching and reader is really hesitant because she knows she isn’t his usual type but there’s so much chemistry regardless 🫠🫠😍 let me see what I can find to tease it with!!

"It really doesn't hurt?" Luckily the shop you found took walk ins, and he had time for a small freehand tattoo when Aaron suggested you get one; he wanted to watch you get a tattoo for some odd reason, and you weren't going to say no. You always had time for a new tattoo, no matter what day or time.

"It's uncomfortable, but it's not as bad as you think. You should get one too," you looked up at him and he was frowning, shaking his head back at you.

"They look much better on you. Your butterfly is cute," that's what you'd gotten, a smaller one, in the blank space of your arm. There wasn't a lot of detail, but he only had an hour to spare for your slot. He covered it with second skin; it was a type of protective seal for your tattoo. Aaron wouldn't let you pay or tip, he insisted, as part of your date. You walked out with a new memory, something to keep on your skin forever that would always make you think of him.

"Were all of your tattoos planned or have you ever gotten one at the spur of the moment like that?" Once you'd climbed in the car, he was taking your hand to examine it more closely.

"Nope, this is a first. I made appointments for the rest."

He liked that a lot.

✨✨✨

🛏 Is there a new trope you'd like to write this year?

Ugh it’s not new because I’ve written it once before but I’m obsessed with Hotch having a lactation kink 🥴🥴 I want to write a whole fic where Hotch has a pregnancy kink/is just absolutely obsessed with pregnant reader and she’s afraid once she has the baby he isn’t going to find her attractive anymore but in reality he’s going crazy over all of the changes her body has made, especially all of her curves 😍

I alsooooo like the idea of writing something that takes place like a year after 5 x 9/100 where Hotch and Jack move to the country to start a new life after Foyet and Hotch falls for a single mom/reader that has a suuuuper simple life, like she has a giant garden/farm and sells her stuff at the farmers market and Hotch is just absolutely wild over her overalls 😂

I also wanna write Hotch having kind of like a threesome but he’s just watching reader and another girl—I had a dream about this scenario like three nights ago and it hasn’t left my brain since. Idk if I’ll write it though because it’s oddly specific—I’m attracted to EVERYONE, regardless of gender identity so it’s super normal for me to be with another woman—I’m not sure if my readers would feel the same though!!

That being said I started a Marty Byrde x Hotch x Reader fic where they were in witsec together and Hotch and Marty agreed to share the reader bc they were both in love with her 🥴 super self indulgent, they didn’t fuck reader at the same time but they were like, taking turns touching her together and it sent my brain haywire so I may finish that— haven’t decided. I haven’t touched it in months but this inspired me to go back and read it 😂😂

#aaron hotchner #criminal minds #hotch #ssa aaron hotchner #ssa hotchner #aaron hotchner smut #hotchner #aaron hotchner x you #thomas gibson #aaron hotchner x reader

[oonajaeadira]

State of the WIP Address

Not much change this week. Still feeling avoidant, behind in just about everything, including a show I'm supposed to be making and things I'm supposed to be writing. I would say it doesn't help that Gordy came home this week, but I spent so much of it at home while he was sleeping that I really should have gotten something done. What really doesn't help is the SO not having enough to keep him busy so he makes me watch TV with him. Then I stay up too late trying to finish things, and then I'm tired the next day and the cycle renews.

I've put borders up around this weekend, and turned down some minor get togethers because I have to get shit done. Priority list right now is:

Scheduling for my winter festival

Prepping for a producer meeting on Monday

Finishing my show research

Secret Santa fic

Finishing a custom scrying mirror commission

Cleaning out my car. And my closet. And the basement.

I expect to get about half of this done this weekend. Which half will be determined by how distracting the dog and SO wanna be.

Really what I've been enjoying lately is just reading, just catching up on fic. I am so lucky to be a part of a fandom that has so many fascinating characters and so many good writers and just a constant feast of noms. Thank you.

State of the Wips is under the cut. There are no updates since last time. I am always trying. <3

STATE OF THE WIPS

I have one million projects happening, but these are the pieces I’m actively thinking about and working on at the moment.

SECRET SANTA Where it’s at: I’m writing for someone I think is a wonderful person and want to do right by them, so the pressure’s on. But at the same time, it’s not. Because I know how accepting and lovely the person is and they gave me a lot of prompts and options and like a lot of the things I do and seem to like a lot of the types of things I like to write. I also know that this doesn’t have to be over-complicated, that I can write my heart and it will please both of us. While I haven’t actually opened up a doc to start, I know that it’s the type of thing that if I have a little uninterrupted block of time, I can just sit down and it will flow. I won’t say much about it here, but I will say that while it can 100% be read as standalone, it hits on a character/series I’m currently writing and acts as a kind of prequel, a reason for loving the reader as he does. It’s something that is kind of missing in the planned series and I think this would be a nice opportunity to explore it before moving forward (and maybe helping propel that series a little) while also touching on one of the characters my giftee likes, a genre they are interested in that I hadn’t considered with this character, and it will have a tone I think they’ll appreciate. So while it’s for them and being written with their likes in mind, I thank them, because it’s also a little gift for me and my yearnings. What’s stopping me: Time constraints and general anxiety.

TROPE FIC: MODERN DOM!PERO Where it’s at: This one got a little sloppy and I’m working on it. I’ve been following @max–phillips’ entries about what defines certain types of kinks and while my thoughts on dom!Pero started as true dom, they swung wrong when I started working on this, and now I’m just thinking myself back to the definition of dominant. And while I may still be missing the mark, it’s helping me to think more about how I want to explore and frame this dynamic. It’s also giving me a little trouble in that it’s not coming out chronologically which causes me to waste time jumping around and retrofitting things. What’s stopping me: I put this one on hold to start prioritizing the Secret Santa piece.

TROPE FIC: SEX POLLEN!OBERYN Where it’s at: This piece is flowing chronologically. It’s going to be longer than I anticipated and the first draft is about 1/3 done. I already know that after the first draft I’ll have to do some shaping and I think maybe I got overwhelmed with the task I set for myself and that triggered my avoidance. I know where it’s going, I’m excited for it, it will flow easily if I let it, I just have to do it! What’s stopping me: I put this one on hold because I got distracted by tasty Pero thoughts. I blame @perotovar for the thots, but not the stopping. That’s all on me.

TROPE FIC: ALPHA!JAVI Where it’s at: I’m about ½ done with the first draft. Again, this one will be longer (and also more angsty) than I anticipated. I love love love where it’s going though and reader and Javi’s history is beautiful and sad and complex; I really love that half. I’m just now switching into the modern day section of it and have to make a few decisions about how I actually want it to go. My mind is over-complicating the story and I’m trying to wrestle it down a softer path. What’s stopping me: I got distracted by the Oberyn story which is why this one’s on hold and now this is all Inceptioning on itself.

GOOD. THINGS. TAKE. TIME. Where it’s at: The asks are all sorted, there are only a few more sessions left before chapter 4. I just have to write it. What’s stopping me: Here’s the thing about PATS. If I was out for notes, I’d be pounding on this series, because it’s my most popular one. But… really, I’m just here to dream up stories I like to tell. I put PATS down not consciously and not because I don’t love him, but I got excited by other ideas. I want to finish it because I don’t like having a bunch of unfinished projects lying around, but I also don’t want that to be my #1 motivator for writing him. I want to enjoy it. I did enjoy putting the latest installment out, but I also don’t feel like I’m letting anyone down if I don’t hurry it, just because engagement is low. Again, I’m not here for the notes, I truly love the connection and the squeeing and sharing a yearn. We’re all so busy now that it’s tough to get to everything and the mutual timing is a bit off. That’s okay. It’s planned out, it’ll get done, I just have to do it when I’m feeling it.

LEAVE OFF YOUR WANDERING: WINTER Where it’s at: Finished plan. Yet to begin writing. What’s stopping me: I was wrestling with this one for a bit because I had two directions it could go–soft and fluffy without much meat, or weaving all the details together and serving a story that gets rather dark, a little sad, and serves as a fix it. On one hand, I felt like I would be betraying readers by not keeping the euphoric escape. But I would also feel like I built this whole backstory that needed to manifest itself in a test for Joel and Meadowlark, as well as the fact that–other than backstories–there hasn’t been any canon hardship or violence displayed. It’s like I’m missing a huge chunk of who Joel and Meadowlark are. In the end, that’s where the story wants to go, so I’m going there. And I have to not think about what anyone else wants, just me. Not just for selfish reasons, but I know that’s when I do my best. It doesn’t mean there won’t still be fluff and a happy ending. It just means I have to write darkness and perhaps it will serve me better to do it in the season in which it takes place.

#state of the wip address

[plethomacademia]

🤔 🤡

🤔What’s a story you’d love to write but haven’t even started yet?

(It's not the dragon fic) For short, I have always wanted to write my orc dirty talked with Karlach pre-heart upgrade when they can't touch each other. The idea is they find a nice space in the underdark where the risk of Karlach setting anything on fire is low. Then they mutual masturbate while just saying filthy shit (and also I think something still catches on fire)

For long, my super self indulgent bummer fic about Maeve and using music to heal from her trauma! I know it has three parts and I have maybe six lines of dialogue and it's gonna make me cry probably.

🤡How many Wips are you actively working on?

Save me use of work "actively." I am actively working on five?

secret santa

Ballroom first draft is waiting for a second pass

Long fic chapter is coming in fits and starts

Next threesome with the elves is fairly active!

The worst thing I have ever written about how Bhaal demands Maeve sacrifice her body for the cult but also there's a hot dragon in it and IUD horror and why am I like this

Backburner but still in my brain/getting random work in fits:

Astarion kinkmeme where he claims Tav as is first spawn, non con and fucking sad

Night before they go to Bhaal, Maeve and Astarion have a lot of feelings and the saddest sex ever, fighting POV on this because I wanted it to be alternating but I like writing Astarion's POV more than my own fucking character

#asks #thank you #i hope i never post the fifth one! #it's called the list! #it fucking SUCKS #red dragonborn as bhaal proxy also weird shit about gortash!

[wayoftheghost]

sending my pleas for a Lady Liberty and the Captain update here as well in hopes that you see it and feed the people 🧎🏾‍♀️

; v ; first of all, thank you for finding me here! I saw your comment on ao3 and it honestly brightened my day immensely bc I unfortunately haven’t touched that account in a while

…during the pandemic I also unfortunately stopped writing for marvel w everything going on. BUT!! Please know that I really, really appreciate your message and reaching out T_T as a writer, nuggets of appreciation like this are so important and cherished 💕

that said, I can’t say for sure if I’ll post the pt 2 bc im also focusing on my original wip 2nd draft, but all the ideas are written down, I just have to finish it lol. Your ask HAS inspired me tho….no concrete promises but know that you are seen 💕💕

#thank you again!! #I miss my marvel days a lot and w fall coming up I’m feeling inspired to revisit it tbh…. #sara answers!

[kananjarus]

Find the word

Rules: share snippets of your work containing each of the words the previous poster selected for you. Optional addition: if you can't find the word in your WIPs, or you simply don't have any WIPs, you can just write a sentence around the word.

Tagged by @mysteriouslyyounggalaxy ❤️ Thank you! I haven’t posted anything in a while because of school but this looked really fun

My words are: tugs, sleep, tender, whisper, fall

I don’t have any interesting wips outside of my apocalypse au so every snippet is pulled from those drafts 🙂

Tug: (I don’t have tugs plural 🙃)

Buck felt a familiar reactionary tug behind his navel. “Like what? Is it just dizziness, or are there other symptoms? Any bleeding?”

Sleep:

His first week on the job had him scaling the inside of a partially collapsed skyrise and digging out a parking garage in a search for a missing firefighter from another house. That sense of camaraderie and purpose, it reminded him of his army days, but lacking of course the looming fear of being bombed in his sleep.

Tender:

At this, Christopher pulled his bottom lip in and bit down on it, suddenly looking unsure. Hand to shoulder, Buck made a clumsy attempt at tender reassurance.

Whisper:

He was whisper-shouting at the trees, losing sight of his own personal ghost. Chimney seemed to blend in with the dark, and Buck felt a wave of dizziness that bordered on desperation.

Fall:

The cadences of voices in the crowd rose and fell. As Eddie stood nearby, helping some of the paramedics from other crews organize supplies to be ready for triage when they offloaded the train, he heard a silence begin to fall that made him feel momentarily weightless, as if he were on a ride that was dropping in slow motion.

I’ve no idea who has done this so feel free to ignore me: @rogerzsteven @shortsighted-owl @evcndiaz @mellaithwen @eddiesbleps

Words for tagged: alone, close, touch, safe, breath, another

#tagged #my writing #station eleven au

[bourbon-ontherocks]

🎁😎🎨 please! 😘

Thank you !! 😘😘

😎 What fics do you prefer on a scale of canon compliant to wildly original?

I’d tend to lean on the canon side, although I can be sold on pretty much anything if the characterization and writing is there ❤️

🎨 If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see? 

Well, first of all I want to shoutout @ama-ssiempre and @anastaswt for having already made incredible fanarts of my works (here and here), I love you guys so so much 😘😘 Now if I had to pick something else to make art from, I guess I’d like something from Scream for GG, perhaps the moment Beth and Rio compare their bruises/scars in the hotel room, and/or the ensuing Touch™ shenanigans... For HPI, well there’s a scene from a chapter that’s not posted yet that I would LOVE to see art about, but I can’t talk about it haha, so I’d say perhaps Morgane and Adam holding hands in Six Minutes because I’m weak and sappy 😭

🎁 Have a piece of a WIP you want to share?

Gah, at this rate, you’ll end up drying up soon all the drafts I still have for Brio fics since I haven’t written anything new in months  🥵 But here, have this snippet of idiots who can’t count from the final chapter of It’s all coming back to me:

He dropped the poorly forged ten dollars bill eventually, gave her a little nod before negligently uttering a "Sixteen," under his breath.

And just –

"What?" she froze in her tracks.

He could not add numbers.

He lazily turned his head to her, already standing in front of the Porcupine's backdoor.

"What, what?" he asked, confident, and anger boiled hot in her chest.

"I... You... I mean, that's not how this works," she stammered, feeling her cheeks becoming annoyingly pink under the scrutiny of his gaze.

"And how does this work, then?" he mocked, a smug grin adorning his face.

"You're supposed to remove numbers. Why aren't you removing them?"

"Cuz you didn't earn it."

"You can't just say that!" she protested with indignation. "I worked hard for this."

"Work harder then," he advised her.

He didn't wait for her answer to step outside, leaving her breathless with fury. It wasn't even about the money. It was hard, getting fake bills right, and he had to know it. But she'd lost a point, ant that, well. That was unforgivable.

She stopped replying to his texts after that.

Emoji asks  

#ask #sothischickshe #writing #fanfic #my fic #I've had a unusual amount of comments asking for the final chapter of coming back so #might have pushed it up the list

[zadien]

✏️ The first fanfiction you ever wrote? (doesn’t have to be a posted fic)

💻 The first fanfiction you posted?

👽 Strangest fic you ever written?

👀 What’s an idea you had for a fic that you never did anything with?

🏚 A fic you more or less abandoned?

💩 The scene you hated to write the most in -insert fic-?

🪜 Tell us a random fact about any fic!

🎨 Show us a sneak peek from a WIP!

✏️

Okay! So first fanfic I actually wrote was a secret seven type fic (I didn’t know what fanfiction was but this story was heavily influenced by The Secret Seven, back when I limited access to books) and I used all my classmates to be part of this secret club that solved mysteries in rural donegal. Soon my classmate found out - being that I was like 8 or so, and they then tried to hijack the story. Which was when I realised that no, I did not want to insert real people into my stories and I wanted to write something else instead. Ever since I’ve never included people I actually know or named characters after people I knew. It was a very traumatic moment in my childhood XD

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That would have to be a card captor Sakura one I think and I can’t even remember it anymore. I know Love/Hate: Just how thin is the Line came a few weeks later. I’m genuinely not sure if SLTS under the name Ice Queen came before L/H or not. I think it might have, got dropped after one chapter and then I came back much later to write more once I understood my version of the characters better.

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Probably the Mariam meets a Mary Sue fic. It was very tongue in cheek and just… not great. I’ll probably end up deleting it at some point. There’s possibly worse. I haven’t looked. I’m too scared. I’ve been writing fanfic for too long and finishing none of it.

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I’ve answered this one previously. I honestly can’t remember now. Oh, there was a werewolf fic at one point, and possibly Kai as a demon when all those twilight/pnr novels were the thing. Oh! And some Zerith plot lines that I just don’t have the bandwidth for. Maybe after CCR. Maybe.

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LMAO! Oh dear. All of them? Dubh Croi. That’s been abandoned with the hopes that I’ll come back to it with a better brain, a more structured plot and original characters. I love the idea of it, but I wrote myself into a wall with it and I just could not fix it. And there’s so many problems with it now, I just think it would work better as an original novel rather than a fanfic. But I keep it up because people liked it, and I can understand why. I enjoyed it a lot.

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Hmm, there is a scene in SLTS where Kai’s dad and Amber’s dad, who are friends but very different dad’s, meet up and Kai’s dad has to give Amber’s dad some dadvice. It took me forever to write it. I have about six different drafts. I hated it, so much but it was so important and I needed to get it right. I’m proud of it now, but dear god the agony of pulling that scene together still sticks with me. Icky. I imagine it will be destroyed by the TyHIl ghost fic because I have to include one of my greatest fears in it. I’m not sure how I’ll cope with that.

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Despite loving Cloti so much and writing Fall Ball Fling for them, Zack and Aerith are the ones I have tons of plot bunnies for but which I cannot find the time to write. And they also have a much more interesting backstory that Cloti in Fall Ball Fling BUT that’s also because I don’t want to give Cloud and Tifa more drama because they had enough in the games. I just want them to dress pretty and dance.

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From Fall Ball Fling: Some big bro Zack vibes.

“You don’t need to wear a dress,” Zack said, rising to his feet and approaching Cloud cautiously. “We’re just going to clear some space and I’ll teach you how to slow dance, with Jessie’s help.”

Jessie smirked. “Make sure you keep your hands above the waist when you’re dancing with Tifa, but you can touch me wherever you—“

“Not happening.”

“Jessie,” Zack warned. Waving her away, he stepped in front of Cloud, blocking his view of the girl/demon incarnate. He placed his hands on Cloud’s shoulders, a comforting weight. “Look, this is everything you wanted, right? And you want the dance to be special? So come on, do it for Tifa. She’s worth it, right?”

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Thank you for the ask!!

#fanfic asks #professorchameleon #zadien replies #beyblade #cloti #zerith

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💥 What is one canon thing that you wish you could change?

👻 What is your wildest headcanon?

🚀 Do you like to outline your fic first or create as you go?

🎁 Have a piece of a WIP you want to share?

🏷 Is there a tag you like to search for when looking for fanfics to read?

🦈 Which character is the toughest to write?

😎 What fics do you prefer on a scale of canon compliant to wildly original?

💛 What is the most impactful lesson you’ve learned about writing?

💥 What is one canon thing that you wish you could change?

How many times can I mention that I’m disappointed over how season 6 handled Daphne’s being corporeal again without sounding annoying as hell? 😭

👻 What is your wildest headcanon?

I’m throwing so many headcanons in my fics that it’s hard to say what’s the wildest xD I think it’s either the way Griffin joins the Company or the way Daphne passed the Dragon Flame to Bloom, both of which I prefer not to tell because I’d like them to surprise readers—at least I hope so!

🚀 Do you like to outline your fic first or create as you go?

I cannot think of working on a long-fic without an outline!

🎁 Have a piece of a WIP you want to share?

I haven’t written much recently because real life is Killing Me™️, so have something a lil’ bit old (and by that I mean… two months?): 

Griffin raised an eyebrow. “You think you can do better?”

“I can.”

Daphne had to bite her tongue to keep herself from saying, I believe that I can. 

She knew in her heart that she could.

Control was what she excelled at; every aspect of her life revolved around it. Smile, but not too much. Walk as though you were balancing on a wire overlooking the void. Educate yourself, but never speak as though you know more than the person standing beside you. A queen should be smart but not outspoken.

Perhaps that was what she found fascinating about witches. They believed it was better to ask for forgiveness rather than permission, but more often than not, they wouldn’t ask for either of those.

They were free.

🏷 Is there a tag you like to search for when looking for fanfics to read?

I often search for either Character or Relationship Study, even better if paired up with Angst and Hurt-Comfort.

🦈 Which character is the toughest to write?

I’m having a hard time figuring Oritel out to the point where I kinda gave up on writing from his POV, but even writing about him from either Daphne or Marion’s POV is hard. I remember having written somewhere in my WIP that Bloom doesn’t really know what to think about him at first, and honestly, I’m not sure that wasn’t just me projecting onto her, haha.

😎 What fics do you prefer on a scale of canon compliant to wildly original?

A good mixture of those is the perfect fic for me. I enjoy screwing canon as much as the next person, but then again, more often than not it’s more about how terribly the canon concept was executed than the concept per se. Originality is a very welcomed touch, of course, but as long as it’s well-written, I would read anything, really.

💛 What is the most impactful lesson you’ve learned about writing?

It’s ok to write horribly. You can’t edit something that isn’t there, so take that mess of a first draft and cherish it until it becomes something that you’d make someone read without dying of embarrassment because of how terrible it is.

#ask #writing ask #my fics #darkpoisonouslove #writing

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2, 16, + 77 for the fic writer asks! (for 77, choose any of your fics!)

thank you! questions are here

2. Do you plan each chapter ahead or write as you go?

definitely write as i go! i have vague ideas for what i want to have happen at some point but i don't really plan much out. if i do it's just a really bare outline that i don't necessarily even stick to

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

there's like three i'm actively working on right now? there's hey, where did we go? which i'm working on the most and posting, then there's a darker monster!eddie one that i've been working on here and there. i may start posting that at some point when i have more of it done but i'm a little uncertain on it since it'll be pretty dark compared to anything else i've written. then i also have a pure smut fic that i'm working on that may very well never see the light of day bc i'm still embarrassed about posting smut O.O oh and i guess my big bang fic should also be counted on there? the first draft is pretty much done so i probably won't touch it again until after artist claims. then i also have several wips that i haven't touched in months so i doubt they'll ever get finished.

77. Do you have a favorite scene you’ve written from [Fanfic Name] story/chapter? 

thank you for this question! i'm just going to copy and paste a scene from one of the fics i'm the proudest of (near wild heaven) (spoilers for it btw):

Steve looked over at Eddie, who was focused on the water below. The setting sun caught on his face, turning him golden. Steve didn’t think he could take it anymore. He was thinking of Robin over the phone, saying “Tell him, dingus.” He was thinking how he didn’t want to go the rest of his life without Eddie knowing how he felt. He was thinking, God, Eddie is so fucking beautiful.

“I love you.”

Steve felt his breath leave his body as time slammed to a halt. He saw Eddie blink, like in slow-motion, then look at Steve.

“What?” he asked. 

The words were out there. Steve couldn’t be a coward now. He had to do this. Eddie had to know. 

“I love you,” he said, “I’m in love with you.” He saw Eddie’s mouth open slightly but he barreled on because he had to say this now or he was never going to be able to. “I’ve been falling in love with you for the past five years, God, maybe even longer. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about you, not since the first time we kissed.

“I love how you are with the kids, I love your voice when you sing, I love your hair, and your rings, and I love your music even though I hate your music, and I love how fucking smart you are, and I love—God—I love you, Eddie.”

Eddie was looking at him in a way that made Steve’s stomach plummet. His expression—Steve realized it was the same exact way Robin had looked at him when they were curled up on the floor of that bathroom at Starcourt. 

“Steve,” Eddie said, voice soft and heartbreakingly gentle and all Steve could think was Oh, God, please, no, this can’t be happening again—

“Steve, I’m sorry,” Eddie said. And he sounded so deeply and genuinely sorry. Steve felt a pattern of fissures forming on his heart, spreading out through his whole body. “I don’t…” Eddie went on, “Listen, I care about you so much—”

Steve bent over the railing and put his head in his hands. “God, Eddie, don’t,” he groaned.

“No, listen,” Eddie said, putting a hand on his back. “I do, okay? I really fucking care about you. You matter to me, so much. I just don’t… I can’t give you that.” 

Steve lifted his head just enough to look at Eddie. His brows were knit together, face pained in the twilight. 

“I’m sorry, Steve,” he whispered.

The fissures in Steve threatened to break open. He took a shuddery breath and tried desperately to hold himself together.

thank you for the questions i love doing these!

[lionofstone]

an aesthetic moodboard for my wip bodyshare, about a musician who makes a deal with the devil and lives to regret it :) 

i haven’t written a summary yet but have this little snippet from the first draft: 

When he was nine, he’d had to get stitches. He’d ridden his bike down a sharp hill and crashed into a tree and disturbed half the neighbourhood with his screaming. The doctors called him brave after they were finished with him, patting his shoulder affectionately before they turned to his mom and gave her care instructions. The stitches were supposed to dissolve, but if they hadn’t after a few weeks, then she could pull them out. They were supposed to dissolve, but they didn’t, not completely, so his mom sat him down on the toilet under the medicine cabinet and eased it out of his leg. He’d felt the thread drag along the underside of his skin, like an itch somewhere that shouldn’t itch. He’d shivered and gone tense, the sensation unfamiliar and unsettling. Later, he’d learn about nerve endings and wonder why there were any on the wrong side of his skin. 

Now, he’s becoming intimately familiar with the way that it’s not just the underside of his skin that can experience strange sensations. The devil loops around his organs and his bones, moves through his blood vessels and his respiratory system. His body doesn’t seem to know how to read the signals. He doesn’t think humans are built to be touched from the inside out. 

#ref bodyshare #writblr #writers on tumblr #indie author #wip #moodboard #should i be working on promoting the series i literally just finished publishing? yes #instead i am going feral over new projects lol

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10, 11, 25, 34, 36, 37, 38, 43, 55, 56, 68, 69, 74, 76, 78, 79 ❤️✨

hehe ahaha this is a lot omg i love talking so much so thank you baby <3

10. Do you work on multiple wips or stick to one fic at a time?

multiple! my mind constantly entertains multiple ideas at once, so i just let it take over lol

11 answered here <3

25. What’s your favorite part of the writing process (worldbuilding, brainstorming/outlining, writing, editing, etc)?

brainstorming mostly! i also enjoy worldbuilding—it's just the actual writing part that fucks me up. but i love just thinking and hypothesizing about how the story could go!!

34. How much of your personal life/experience do you include in your fics?

all of it, yet none of it at all. i would say there are minor glimpses into my personal life/experiences, but there are also things in my fics that i'd never do (ie; i rarely write abt condoms even tho i use them every time i have sex lol). it really depends and while i probably don't notice it in the moment of writing, i think it varies fic by fic.

36. What fic are you proudest of?

woah this is such a question omg. yeah so withholding a fic im very proud of. i loved the direction i went with it—there's something different about that fic (along with reversal) compared to my others that i love so much, but i can't quite put my finger on it. but both fics felt very good to write :)

37. What fic has been the hardest for you to write?

it's actually one of my wips—after dusk with minho. i've had the idea of this fic since January and i've been working on it since then, too. but for the love of GOD i cannot seem to even complete a full draft—of which i've had at least three. it's frustrating, but i know im gonna be SO damn happy when i finally finish it.

38. What is your most self-indulgent posted story?

there are three! carnal pleasures, the vapors, and 2:22AM (not mentioned by all of my changbin stuff tbh)

43. Is there a trope or idea that you’d really like to write but haven’t yet?

i want so badly to write a coffee shop/flower shop au idk. really wanna do a soulmate fic as well. and i know i've spoke about how i don't really like enemies to lovers, but i've been thinking about an e2l fic with haechan and idk ?? might go for it. lastly, i want to write something so angsty and sad (with an unhappy ending) just to do it idk

55. Have you noticed any patterns in your fics?  Words/expressions that appear a lot, themes, common settings, etc?

love analyzing myself so there are a couple of things i've noticed. usually, all the same few kinks pop up (spit play/cum play/overstimulation, etc) and i think generally, neediness is a common theme in most of my fics. i also feel like i use the word 'gracious' a fuck ton.

56. Are there any fics that you would change or rewrite if given the chance?

while im in love with every fic i've written—i CONSTANTLY think about rewriting pay attention and also skz as physical touch. i also think about rewriting my first couple of pieces (all abt channie) from when i first made this blog (not linking those bc just thinking about them is enough ❤️)

68. Are there any fics that influenced you to write the way you do?

man, i'd have to log into wattpad to answer this lol. i feel like im constantly being inspired and influenced by most of the things i read—i don't think i'd be able to pinpoint it. though, i think im more influenced by various novels, usually of the horror or thriller variety.

69. What are your favorite fics at the moment?

harness by dee (@/btssmutgalore / @/ballelino), part 2 of dance with a ghost by mint (@/hynjnhwng) and anything moon (@/gyuphorias) has written about yeonjun are all my faves <3 im sure there are sooo many others that i love but off the top of my head it's those ones that live rent-free in my mind 🛐🛐

74. Do you have a fic you wish got a bit more love?

i usually mention carnal pleasures when it comes to questions like these. but i suppose the contents of that fic are for a very niche audience and i've accepted that <3 it feels like a club that no one else can get into fr

76. How do you deal with writing pressure, whether internal or external?

i don't deal with it well—which is why i take several, frequent short breaks. i tend to get overwhelmed a lot and the best thing for me is to just...log the fuck off.

78. What motivates you during the writing process?

if i've got a really good idea that's enough motivation needed—once i start there's hardly any stopping unless i hit a wall. i usually try to bribe myself with weed or something to keep me motivated tho 😭😭

79. Do you have any writing advice you want to share?

take breaks and let yourself breathe!! don't try to push or overwork yourself either. writing takes time and that's completely fine—i feel like a lot of us, as fic writers, stress about posting often and whatnot—but people are gonna read ur stuff regardless of if you post often. just take your time <3

#💌 — mail time

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writing asks 1, 24, 30 !

1) What themes would you like to write about that you feel don’t get explored very often?

No idea tbh. I don’t really think it’s a theme, but I do tend to explore the experience of being mixed and whitepassing + feeling a disconnect from your culture a lot in my stuff tho. It effects a lot of my life, but it’s not something I see come up a lot. So I create the rep I want to see

24) Do you let your story evolve as you write or do you meticulously plan everything prior to writing the first draft?

Plan everything. Especially since most of my ongoing stories are horror, I want to keep track of things as much as I can bcs that tends to involve some amount of reveal. I’ll make some minor changes from my plan, like cutting a scene if I realize it doesn’t move the story along by the time I get to it, but otherwise I stick completely to my plans. It’s important for foreshadowing and knowing the end goal of the story

30) What is some of the best writing advice you’ve read or received? Why does it work for you?

tbh I don’t remember any of the writing advice I’ve gotten, despite literally having been a creative writing minor. Maybe making a story bible? Like I said with me liking planning, I think it’s a good way to have an idea of what I’m doing in fics and keep track of important info. Especially since I don’t have a ton of free time, that’s a way for me to keep track of stuff and remember things even if I haven’t touched a wip in months

#asks #snnuysideup #thank you!

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November 11: WIP List Thoughts

This day did not go according to plan, by which I mean I didn’t write and I’m feeling pretty depressed. I’m actually worried I’m entering like a Depressive Phase and that’s kind of scary especially with winter and the holidays coming up but I’m just not going to worry about that right now. I need to do a lot of laundry tomorrow and so I’m not sure I’ll be able to write on top of that, although I do want to, and technically it should be possible. Mostly right now I want to go to sleep. And should!

I did go out today, took a little walk, and then did some notebook planning. I was working on an old Bellarke Fluff idea from the WIP list and, after some wheel spinning, started to feel like I was getting somewhere with it.

I’m wondering if I should, like, reevaluate the whole WIP list. This is just an idle thought that probably won’t go anywhere, or won’t go anywhere for a while, since I have a lot of other organizational tasks that I’m behind on and that need to come first, but something for the backburner perhaps. It’s sort of a weird document (actually it’s a chart but document in the broad sense). I call it the WIP List but it’s really more of a WIP and Ideas List, or a Project list. The line between “WIP” and “idea” is pretty hazy for a lot of my stuff. I guess a WIP might reasonably be defined as something that has words, a piece of writing that exists in partial-draft form. But I have fics that are partially drafted but I intend to scrap all of that draft, fics that are partially drafted but haven’t been touched in years, and others that have no draft text but tens of pages of brainstorm notes and outlines, which I’m still actively working on in a very present-tense way, and it feels weird to somehow elevate those in the first categories to ‘WIP’ while calling those in the latter category just ‘ideas.’ So the dividing isn’t clear and even if you force it… it’s not helpful.

When I started the WIP list, I didn’t really care about the accuracy of the title, I just wanted to be comprehensive. I wanted it to be every project I was working on or might work on or cared about or might care about. So even though it’s split into subsections, it’s also very long, and purposefully long. It eases a sort of anxiety to feel like everything is in one spot. But then it creates another sort of anxiety, or more properly a distortion, because projects that are in very different states are all sort of treated as equals: this random 1200 words that I wrote in 2017 and haven’t touched since next to this fully planned out multi-chapter I’m actively working on next to this scrap of idea I had once but never developed in any way next to this mess of brainstorm ideas that may or may not resolve into a narrative.

And, like, here’s the thing. Here’s what I’m really getting at. This isn’t a to-do list and never was. It’s an at-a-glance list. And I do kind of like the messiness of just every possible idea in one spot; it gives me a security to feel like, long as it is, it is everything, it is the totality of all ideas in any way currently on the table. It does have subsections, as stated, which helps. But, at one point I was putting literally every idea that flitted through my brain on there. There are items that are literally 3 or 4 words long and that is it, that’s the whole idea. And at a later point, I started one separate item that was for scraps. The idea for this item was that some ideas are not story ideas per se, they are sub-parts of an idea, and I don’t yet know where they go. Like, this is a cool image, this is a cool line, this is a cool theme… not stuff I want to build a whole new story around but stuff I want to remember in case I come up with an idea where one of these scraps might fit. But then when my WIP List hit 50 items, was actually over 50 for a bit, I started feeling anxiety about it. I wanted it under 50 so bad and now that it’s 50 I’ve decided I hate the idea of going over. So I started adding new ideas to this ‘scraps’ list rather than making new items for them. I was not consciously trying to cheat but basically that’s what it is. It was like I was creating a 'waiting room' of sorts because I'd capped the list at 50 for fully arbitrary reasons. There are ideas now in the scraps item that could easily be on the main list, or vice versa, and it’s this state of affairs I’m thinking of when I say ‘maybe I should re-evaluate it.’

If I were being really honest with myself, there are probably also ideas that can just go, that I should be able to admit outright are never going to be written because I’ve proven them unfeasible or no longer care for them. I’m so stubborn, and I also, like I said, feel less anxious when I perceive the list as comprehensive, which makes it harder to take stuff off because ‘what if?’ ‘just in case’ etc. But I spent a lot of this summer planning out a story that I ultimately never wrote because I decided I didn’t like it and what was that process but proving to myself it’s not a feasible idea? So. I don’t know. I just feel overall like this list was created in a different era in a way and that maybe I shouldn’t be wedded to it in its current form.

Or I should write stuff on it and then cross it off in a satisfying, accomplished way. Then the list would be shorter. LOL.

#the year 2023 #2023: writing thoughts #avoidance avoidance avoidance