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I just wanna know what that ship was that had 76 of the fanfics written by one person.
ME TOO. THAT'S SOME DEDICATION RIGHT THERE.
I can respect that
The original poster said it was some 90s cult film but didn't give it specific name
a ship i know has 69 works. 39 are written by only one author
@@animekitteen001 *nice.*
Ok but "poke holes in your story so it can breathe" is *genuinely* good writing advice!!
Leaving tiny bits of your story unanswered can be really exciting for a reader, and give way to lots of different theories that could help your story move along!
I thought plot holes are more like contradictions of the lore/rules of your universe
@@AleXanDraPR369 I second this notion actually
Yeah this is true. So many writers try to explain literally everything and it begins to have that My Immortal feeling of describing what literally everyone is wearing. Readers don't need that much information it makes the story boring
A writer should understand everything they can about what they write. The reader does not.
That line out of context is good advice. What you're describing is mystery and intrigue, which is great! You want that in your story, and sometimes you want to tell a story where not everything is necessarily wrapped up in a neat little bow at the end. What the post itself was talking about was plot holes.
By definition, a plot hole is an inconsistency in the narrative or character development in a story. It's a spot where the story's overall logic doesn't work. These can be illogical/unlikely/impossible events, or statements that contradict prior events in the storyline. Most plot holes are mistakes, and generally speaking should be fixed in the editing process.
Where are the people that just daydream for a month then go "fxuck it" and decide to wrote a 8,000 words fic in 1 hour?
me :)
Wait you just described me
i gotta try this
i’m here-
you called?
3:51 for me it's the exact opposite. I will write for 2 hours straight, thinking that I'm making such a literary masterpiece, but when I rediscover it months later I want to delete myself
For me, it goes like this: I think about it, think it's amazing. I write it down and immediately think "What have I done"
A little later: Wow, it's not that bad.
Then it lies, long forgotten for months, maybe years.
Me, rediscovering it: What the hell did I write when I was younger
Same. And then I read a real book and wonder, *what have I done?*
One of the only bits of writing advice that's stuck with me was from Roald Dahl.
"Never ever think your writing is brilliant, or else you're heading for trouble."
Man I live my life like that.
you just described me
3:50 Bro this has happened so many times to me it's ridiculous. I'd write really good plots, but just drop it after 4 paragraphs because of my crippling perfectionism. Then months later, I rediscover the dusty fics and go "The fuck... this is actually really good...? I could've sworn it was 10 times worse last time I checked. Where's the rest I need more???" Then the cycle repeats lmao
idr??
fr. few days ago i discovered my old drafts and thought "my 15 yo self was actually good at writing?? why did you give up???". now i'm picking up my pen again 😭🖐️
@@aun7106 bro i relate so much
I DO THIS ALL THE TIMEE
The answer is to write a crappy story first and don’t think about whether it’s good or not, just spout words into a document, don’t even check your spelling. Once you have an entire story of garbage quality to work with, you can go full-on critic and edit the crap out of it. If you must rewrite a large chunk, use the same process. This way, your perfectionism only comes in when it can’t stop the story from existing in some form. At least then you can work on it whenever you feel like it without forgetting anything.
My therapist advised me to write more fanfiction as it is connected to self realization and reflection. Also, writing down and publishing your struggles can help others not feel alone because there’s someone having the same problems. Also, it’s fun and a healthy coping mechanism. Hurt your characters, not yourself😌
y e s it’s way better to hurt fictional people than to actually hurt yourself. it doesn’t hurt anyone and you’re creating a story or scene :D
MY THERAPIST SAID ALMOST THE EXACT SAME
Screenshoted your comment, thank you
This is a Jim Pickens comment I didn't expect to find, but I needed
Mm this encouraged me to mayhaps actually giving it a try; I have plenty of daydreams and story ideas anyways and I should probably let them sometime, they need air.
Geniune writing advice: It is okay to like a villian. That doesn't mean you would endorse their actions if they actually did them, it just means they're entertaining and you're doing a good job.
I both love and hate my villain. He’s manipulative and cunning, but deep down his actions are from misguided kindness and hurt. He’s my hilarious, manipulative little militant son.
There’s a difference between a bad villain and a good villain. A bad villain is a character who is written bad, a good villain is still a villain but written really good.
what if i condone murder and killing
I absolutely love my villains because they’re chaotic and I can relate, but I don’t want to make them sympathetic. They’re just like that, nothing horrible happened to them, they’re just… A little shit :DDDD
Facts
So, the favorite trope part is great, but consider, they still hate each other, then midbattle, the shirt gets shredded, character B just pauses the entire fight, and is just "Who did that to you? Cause I know it wasn't me."
enemies to lover but sprinkled with "only i will kill you, who is this side bitch"
@@vaishnavisingh9244
Me looking at Anwir and Huntress (name is still a work in progress)
@@localforestwitch7215 is it still in progress ???
oops it was 2 hrs ago nvm carry on 💀
@@mrithabose134
I love Huntress' name, but I'm open to suggestions!
The worst writing advice Ive ever given is "have a bland character? Make them evil!"
Congrats now you have a Bland villain
@@joaquingamarra3248 A crime!
No
No, you don't get how good this is
A bland character is a normal person
And there's something subtly terrifying about a perfectly normal person f$@#ing everyone else over
Because they're normal
Which means there's a REASON for it
Oh, hi. Big fan of ur vids btw
Wow that's actually a good advice if nicely built
Being a writer is procrastinating for months over a story you aren’t being forced to write, finally getting to it, writing at least 50k words, then giving up on the story and moving on to a new one.
And then leaving It there and looking at it every once in a while as you go to the current fic you’re working on, but as the time passes the pile of wips just grows out of control too fast
I feel called out
@@bananabro1010 Then now you feel the responsibility to update it since people are now having expectations.
@@bananabro1010 True I do relate
EXACTLY 😭
Avoid love triangle tropes by avoiding love in general
I like love triangle tropes done by people who understands what a love triangle is.
@@avourrito1819 mind elaborating??
Now I'm curious
Being Ace and/or Aro like:
@@joaquingamarra3248 I think the love triangle trope gets a bad rep cause most shows and things do it wrong. It's usually obvious who the main character will end up with, or one of the love interest has no chemistry at all with the main character. Problems like that end up making love triangles bad. Though when shows or books do them right it can be fun.
That's sometimes a good solution and a good way of showing diversity, tho~
Or, if you don't want to exclude it completely, there are options, I'm sure.
For example, I'm writing (several) stories, and one of them is about this boy who is in love with this other boy (who is aroace). Obviously, the later can't return their feelings in the romantic way, and the first one (we'll call him A) knows this.
But he doesn't care because love doesn't have to be romance. Because the type of love that B has for him is already enough. Should be enough, shouldn't be considered less just because they aren't romantic, because B really loves him, and that is just more than he could ever ask for, and everything he needs. Is more than enough.
So yeah, they are really comfortable around each other and help each other raising their children (that they had before they met).
A big happy family, guys.
There's this other story but this is already long enough. So sorry.
♣
3:51 ... I didn't know that was a common experience, I just thought I was weird!
Like, when I'm writing stuff it's horrible and like "this isn't how humans interact" and then I read it a few days later and somehow I've read it start to finish and I want to beat the rest of the story out of the author. And then I realize the author is me and I haaaaate ittttt! Why can't I just spawn fanfiction fully formed from my brain and read it without actually having to write it first?
I never look at the screen. That is because I intentionally fold my laptop so I could not see it. The minimum amount of space needed for my hands is how open it is. I also try to type as fast as I can so my thoughts get uninterupted. That means a lot of spelling errors that can be fixed later. It is less work that way.
THIS. i can write something so perfectly from start to finish, full detail, emotions and heat is there, but when it comes to putting the words on the page i'm just like "what did i open wattpad for again?"
@@renoirrr A little while ago I was writing a thing and I could _only_ come up with dialogue. Which is less than ideal because the work that I'm trying to imitate has very little dialogue and stunningly beautiful descriptions and emotional body language.
I suspect the reason I suck at descriptions is because I'm autistic as hell and my understanding of body language and tone is... not great. I take everything literally. And I dissociate a lot. So double-whammy on the "your personal experience does not lend itself well to this writing style."
Look up Mejhiren's _Hunger Games_ fanfiction, _When The Moon Fell In Love With The Sun_ . It is, by far, one of the most beautiful things I've ever read, and it's almost completely feel-good fluff.
This has happened with basically every fic I’ve ever started. It’s a big part of my motivation to keep writing- present me just needs to get all the words out. Future me can take care of editing, when some of the emotion has cooled.
Oh my gosh, literally yes! I would have SO MUCH fan fic if I didn’t have to write it first!
Has anyone else ever randomly mashed some common phrases/figures of speech together?
Like for example, "jack of all trades..." + "don't bring a knife to a gun fight" = "Jack of all blades, master of none, should not fight with a knife against a master of gun."
Or, another one of my favorites: "You play stupid games, you're gonna get burned."
I've actually never done that, but I _do_ like rhyming things together and putting beats to the words.
I mean, I guess that's what music is, but y'know.
this sounds like you mixed up two taylor swift song lyrics AND NOW I HAVE BOTH OF THEM WARRING IN MY HEAD
@@bluehourcore Well, "What can I say except 'you're welcome!'"
there’s actually a subreddit for that (forgot what it’s called tho), a lot of it is reposts but there’s some occasional gold on there
Dunno if this counts but I once put in an argument "This isn't you!"
"Then you never knew me!!"
:D
The best excuse of the century.....................
"Plot holes? They are there for ventilation"
You laugh but Sword Art Online and the love story of Anakin and Padme in the prequel trilogy work like that.
In retrospect I can see why other people don't like either but I enjoyed both and kind of made up unconsciously and rather inarticulate what the work itself didn't offer.
Plot holes are the pockets where your audience keeps their fanfiction ideas
I wrote like 8 versions of this reply before realizing this comment was made 6months ago lmfao. But anyway..
Could you imagine the Author/narrator of a book being the ANTAGONIST instead of the protagonist in a book? I just imagined a plot of a author with writers block and a deadline trying to write a killer novel but can't think of an interesting plot. Author starts recklessly manipulating characters in the book just to see if a good story would come out of it. Because of the chaotic interference with the world, it starts throwing the whole universe out of balance. Protagonist is somehow aware of the narrator and so they know their influence is what's causing all of the chaos in the universe. The protagonist has to stop the end of the universe by making sure the book never gets finished.
Narrator is initially unaware of their influence but then eventually becomes cruelly attached to the power they have and go full supervillain.
like could you imagine a casually cruel narrator taunting their precious protagonist "oh that little plothole? its just there for ventilation." and its an opening through space and time that threatens to end the protagonist's entire universe and everything that ever existed within it
@@mouse363 not sure how you’d pull it off, but this is a sick idea omfg
6:07
What was the ship? WHAT WAS THE SHIP OP?
Yeah, I’ve been dying to know. Also, WHO THE FUCK WROTE 76 FICS ABOUT THEM LIKE HOW AND WHY AND WTF
@@racoon_in_ankhmorpork dnf shippers be like
I looked up the account and this is what they had to say about it;
“yanno i’ve got this question before and i dunno if i answered it then but i will tell you now: you don’t care. it’s a ship from a p obscure, maybe BARELY cult 90s film and the only reason i found it at all is bc sometimes when i watch movies i’m like “i bet someone ships this” and then i go on ao3 to check.”
@@decentgrocerybag4003 whoever writes 76 fics for an obscure 90s film is iconic and i want that perseverance so bad
@@decentgrocerybag4003
what’s the account?
0:54
I once found a mha fic that, while it was not the main focus, encapsulated this perfectly. It was a "Dorm rules" fic, and one thing aizawa wrote was "I'm not going to tell you how to control your love lives, but if you need to cover a wall in cork board to keep track of everybody's relationships, maybe you need to sit down and talk things over."
@Invisible
One sec...
Okay, I messed it up a little, it was "if the realationships in the class are complicated enough that you've used a full wall in the common room to make a pinboard to keep track of them, maybe you all should consider sitting down together and talking things over." But regardless, the fic's name is "Rules for 1A" by BrotherBrain on ao3.
i read this and i DiEd
Yo I read the a while ago
Behold we have found a new PM Seymour
AM Seymour
@@jessicacipherlol3496 LMAO
AO3 Seymour.
What was wrong with the first one? I hope you have new PM Seymour money, because I'm not buying any of this for you. You haven't even finished the first one life gave you.
@@AncientShotgun I love his stuff, I was just thinking it was a nice fun nod to him and how this is similar content to his. I am not being rude to anyone
Shippers be like: "avoid love triangles by making it a love icosahedron"
The life of a multishipper
Still made of triangles, should have gone with the love dodecahedron.
Miraculous Ladybug be like
What's terrifying about the implications is that shippers with a math degree could conceivably generalize love triangles to n dimensions.
@@anerdwithaswitch9686 Well, if it’s poly and you’re shipping multiple combinations of the same people, I think it would have to be 3 dimensional to accommodate several lines off of one character. Gotta say, though, icosahedron is not a very efficient shape for shipping, I have no clue what kind of absolute animal of a person multiships characters in the form of a regular solid
Who else would absolutely adore to sit down and write a amazing story about awesome characters and cool world building, but the second they try its no thoughts head empty?
I write fanfiction on spirit and wattpad and most of the time can't finish them because instead of writing my fanfiction I'm just ordering uber eats
That’s me writing literally anything
5:50 I'm convinced that half the writers out there are just confused people with undiagnosed ADHD because that feels like the whole ADHD experience in a nutshell
I have suspected adhd
The professionals couldn’t even tell????
@@papairplane bro’s under investigation 💀
Im pretty sure I have ADHD but cant get a therapist yet so Im just out here floating in the void, watching my mind spasm and glitch out like "Well thats not supposed to happen....*continues eating chicken nuggies *"
Honestly this is just the severe procrastination we get. I can relate to that post specifically a worrying amount 💀
@@atiredweeb8551 Regardless of if you have ADHD, if you feel something's up, then something's up. Hope you can get the help you need and deserve someday!
I saw a brilliant post that once said "plot holes are merely the pocket in witch the audience keeps their fanfic ideas" and honestly that's an amazing perspective
2:39
Me, a bigger brain individual: Villains monologue because it's a convenient way to tell the reader/watcher the whos, whats, whens, whys, and hows of their plots
Also to give hero time to do their stoppy thingy
Even better if what he's saying already happened in the story and the villain is telling their perspective on things, and how the events affected him. And the protagonist slowly realizes they, unknowingly contributed to their villainy
* My tons of tons unfinished stories and ideas just chilling in the corner *
Me: You're so beautiful my little Bby's..I love you all deeply, but I forgot how to write!!! * cries dramatically *
This.
I sucked at first person so I created a new cast of characters to practice and now it's months down the line and I don't remember how to third and all my other babies are sitting there and waiting for me to come back but I want to help them but I can't English anymore!
@@crazyshark1016 I tried to write a ship fanfiction in first person about a year ago, and whenever I look back on it I wish I’d never even tried 😭
3:00 me, who only reads found family/platonic soulmates fanfictions: okay, but imagine platonic, parental, familial, they’re dressing a big wound and find sll these smaller scars and vow to avenge their loved ones
Aight give me. Someone write this and hand it over 🔫•-•
@@DeviIboy when you're done reading please pass it on
ok but let me raise you this:
platonic soulmates with soulmarks
soulmate 1 has scars
soulmate 2 sees them
soulmate 2 'who did this to you'
soulmate 1 gets defensive
soulmate 2 calls in soulmates 3 and 4
soulmates 2, 3 and 4 team up
find out one of soulmate 1's scars is on their soulmark
get even more mad because that's basically the ultimate sign of disrespect
find the fucker who did it and end their life subscription
ends with fluffy cuddling of all 4 soulmates
Guess who finally finished their fanfiction?
Not me, but someone probably did :)
God that’s relatable
That moment where you have planned out a story in your head for literally 4 years and changed it a painful amount of time until it felt JUST right-
And then end up writing a completely new one that starts in the middle-near end of the first because the story you just spent years on obviously was not good enough to be built up on paper/word and is better suited as a background story that'll slowly be told throughout hints in the new one....
*But then you end up writing 1 chapter and nothing more*
I keep adding A/Ns in the middle of this fanfiction I’m writing that basically say stuff like, “Sorry, but I need to take a break to change an entire portion of the storyline that essentially makes up two thirds of the story, because I came up with something that I like better than the plot I’ve got now.” Not sure if it’s a weird form of procrastination or the sheer level of perfectionist I am, but why am I like this 😭😭
Rest in piece to all the half-baked novel ideas I left to rot so that I could start trying to write and draw a comic that I can't even storyboard right now because I can't draw backgrounds yet 🙏
your voice is so soothing and pretty i love it
Thank you so much :)
my favourite side of tumblr!! pls do more of this
I'd love to!
My favorite trope is the “I hate you but you are hurt/sick and That an inconvenience so it’s unintentional bonding time”
I remember scrolling through Classical musci RPF and seeing like a dozen fics about Liszt written by one person, published on one day
I remember someone in the Sonic fandom posted like 30 fics in the span of like 2 hours
And I couldn't read them because they were all in spanish
@@irishuisman1450 why is this so funny to me 😭💀
Me, literallycrying while reading my OC's sad backstory: _Why would anyone do this to you they were such monsters_
LMFAO SO TRUE-
Me: I don’t have a favorite sci-fi trope!
Also me: reads/watches Dune waiting for a shai-hulud to show up, my favorite episode of the Mando is S2E1, and me loving the Iceworm from Subnautica Below Zero even though I haven’t even played the game.
So beeg worm?
Oh boy you’d love The Adventure Zone: Balance - The Eleventh Hour
@@fyrefrost1898 same brain.
2:17 Or if you’re me, write an entire fic in the notes app without planning them :)
Also, 5:36 is… more of a mood than I’d like to admit
The notes app is the true mvp of fic writing
@@lilylohmann614 YES IT IS. I HAVE SOOO MANY STORIES I'VE NEVER FINISHED.
If writers treat their characters like their children, I would be a terrible parent because I'm like the person in 4:27 when it comes to making a character's backstory.
Yeah. I'm awful. Basically, if you're my favorite character, you're GOING to suffer.
1:49 WRONG: that is an amazing writing idea
Agreed. I’m a Jack of all trades so I could probably do it myself :)
Yeah, as long as it is not the part of the finnished product.
@@lampyrisnoctiluca9904 ah, in some circumstances it might as well
@@xCorvus7x sometimes but rarely.
@@lampyrisnoctiluca9904 it is conceivable
Bonus point if character B did those scars, and is 100% regretting life choices they made before
Even more Bonus Points if Character A does NOT know it was B who did it
@@joaquingamarra3248 imagine him thinking about how those scars were with him all his life, and character B is brushing through them, knowing it was his doing. Character A thinks it's weird how B gives those scars special treatment, and how B has such a sour expression on his face while he does, but he does not dare to ask what is going on in his mind.
Bonus points if it’s a hurt comfort thing and when character B asks who gave character A the scars and character A looks really sad and says me
@@alee8453 Even more bonuspoint if character A was depressed because of how he wanted to get along with B, but B pushed him away all the time, saying they can never be friends, but enemies - look at them now, they were lovers
@Reka Nagy YES ALL THE BONUS POINTS GO TO YOU
RIP that one crossover fic for which I have done massively extensive worldbuilding to perfectly balance the two disparate power sets into something that could cohesively fit into a single world without either side becoming too OP, but still have no story plot for.
This is so something I would do when making a crossover omfg
4:16
Wait what if two writers swapped concepts in a fair amount of detail and wrote each others' scenes/stories to the best of their ability???
This is how most of the books with 2 authors are written. One plans it, another with more time on the hand writes the planned thing.
Hey man, wanna write two stories by describing to each other what we want to happen then writing it for the other person? I’m down.
I think all love triangles should be resolved through polyamory. Current love triangles are just awful. Why must one of the two hunky Y/A love interest boys suffer simply because the author is too cowardly to let them all be poly and into each other? Would the world not be a little brighter if the spunky Y/A heroine decided that she didn’t have to chose one lover?
*Moon, Winter and Qibli intensifies*
0:39 That post did *not* have to come for my neck like that.
I had this story about these 2 girls living in medieval times (and, of course they are in love) but then I realized that I have no idea how medieval times worked. Everytime I write down something down I have to check and ask myself a stupid question like “wait, are blue dresses even worn by royalty? WAS HAIR BRAIDING A THING??”
Yeah pretty much because you actually never know how old is something until you see a photobooth in a manga set in the 60's and discover that it's completely posible
And then you end up going down a rabbit hole of videos and/or Wikipedia pages for hours and hours, making several organized subfolders of bookmarks that you'll totally use eventually.
TH-cam is great for this, search up what you wanna learn about and make a playlist (is what I did, this might not work for you) if you like. It's really helpful!
I once researched all about the 1970s and all the trends of the 1970’s to write a book about an accidental time traveler, I grinded out like 4 chapters in a couple of days then never touched it again.
I even was planning to play the entirety of Star Trek and maybe watch it just for one scene in the book where the 1970’s character talks about their love of Star Trek.
@@bananabro1010 Woww lol. I wish today's screenwriters and authors were half as dedicated as you. (Not intending to be sarcastic)
6:07
“How does it feel to write fanfiction for a dying ship, loyalist?”
“Euphoric”
Nearly all my ships are unpopular or hated by almost everyone else in the fandom, and I don’t understand what makes me like this💀
I like to think that the last one is talking about the person who earlier said “when you apply all the filters and the one fix there is the one you wrote”… I like to imagine that person wrote 75 more fics of the same filters, and this second person found it lol
3:03
“Bonus points if they used to be enemies, More bonus points if there’s a ‘Who Did This To You’”
“Who did this to you!”
*”you did”*
“Oh right…”
i subscribed so fast, i NEED these 😭 it's hard being an ao3 fanfic writer out here. i love these videos
Thank you!
3:09 That's how every fic idea I've ever had, would need to play out to be even slightly comprehendible.
Frrrr 💀 I have a visualisation problem, so I have to do things like this. Or severely over-plan, but ykyk
Writing with deadlines is fun because it'll be a month away from having to be complete and suddenly you realize "holy crap I have to get this done" and then just not do it
I used to give myself update deadlines, but I just gave up eventually and decided I’d write whenever I wanted to lmao
ahem
fanfiction writers rise up
you called?
I’m here but we’re going to pretend I’m not
Hello, I'm here-
I'm here
'ello
when you have the perfect ship dynamic worked out in your head and you never write it because it won’t be perfect enough… and then one night at 3am you end up sobbing on ao3 to a Tom & Jerry fic, convincing yourself there could never be anything better or more true and then you have to stop writing for a year. true story??
3:10 this would be extremely relatable if the longest thing i’ve ever written wasn’t 6k words
When you try really hard to make sure your slow burn is actually slow. But now it's the second installment and you're halfway through, technically finished and are just flushing it out while transferring it from your Doc's to your actual story to see if it actually goes together well, and there is still no romance. Just sweet fluffy moments that both character involved view as platonic but are essentially dating without knowing. And the third person is just trying to hook up with the two idiots, assuming they're already dating. And you're writing the third installment as well since you have a lot of inspiration for once and don't want to lose it, but you don't know how to officially get them dating without one asking if they're already dating and they come to the conclusion that they are.
I have like 7 different fanfic storys for this one charcater from a Show or oc but can't write it down because
1. It won't live up to my fantasy
2. I will lose interest in the storys
3. It's so many plotpoints from other books/games/films/songs mix together that it would only make sense to me
Example: fav Charcater Denki Kaminari
1. Make him a badass assasine from a fanfic i saw
2. Oh cool the history and politics of Dune >:D don't mind if i do
3. Oh the Song Daughter of evil wonderful but it in
4. Oh aspects of yandere simulator 1980s Mode sure
5.Hmm squid game you say
6.oh whats that? Nalia daughter of the Elements? i'm taking your entire stock
7.Random songs , plot points, Angst,Drama, fantasy
Endresult: One gigantic fantasy World with Denki as an semi-evil Main character, with Lore,backstory,politics,nature,oc and it only makes sence for me
:)
0:10 this reminds me a lot of a quote from newsies on broadway that goes, “‘write what you know,’ so they say. all i know is i don’t know what to write or the right way to write it”
tfw you dont think you write that much but watch this and relate to almost everything
also a moment of silence for the fanfics I started but never finished
"physically, I don't have a lot of wips, but emotionally -" you don't need to call me out like this
you're doing a great job on the reading! I love how one can hear the feelings in your voice.
Thank you!
there is fandom that has like 100+ fanfiction from the same account and while i doubt it is run by one person the evidences and consistency in writing indeed showed that the account is owned by one person only.
0:55 -- No, make it a love 8-dimensional shape. That way, you'll never be able to find a triangle in the mess of a romance.
Yessss I love this content!! Especially on the first day of National Novel Writing Month
I love TH-camrs who read but like the memes sections
if someone actually invented a document that can let your mind write it, it would be awesome
Goddamn I wish. Sometimes I just stare at my blank page for about ten to fifteen minutes straight like “why won’t you write yourself” 😭
1:59 WTF THIS IS SO USEFUL JSJNDKLZLWMKD
That last one gives me the same vibes as when I see ao3 user AetherAria singlehandedly feeding the entire TPP Second Citadel fandom
"Daydream for several weeks before writing 1000 words." I can barely reach 500!
"Normalize fantasizing about intricate stories and never writing them." HELL YEAH!
You ever just stare at the page for god knows how long wishing it would just write itself tho
Funny timing for this. I've just spent over a week procrastinating writing the continuation of my book. Instead, yesterday, I spontaneously came up with the idea for another story entirely and I ended up writing a 1500 words scene in the middle of said story. Sometimes it do be like that.
5:35 It started out that way... Then I found out I'm gay. Oop
I wish I could write fanfiction, but I'm better at music & costume making. If I could, then I would 😭.
You could make a fanfic of sorts through music?
@@wolfsoul_zanesilver7710 I probably should've worded that better. I just play the guitar. I'm not a songwriter.
@@DocHolliday1851
Well you could try making one still. Like the sounds of the guitar and the rythm/beat or whatever instead of words.
Just a random thought. ✌️
@@wolfsoul_zanesilver7710 I do like to think of ships while playing rock/metal ballads or sappy stuff lol.
@@DocHolliday1851 that’s cool. I bet it is your own way of making stuff like that too.
0:36, 4:15, 5:30, 5:50, and 6:02 are there to just call me out. 0:36 especially - there have been times I've legit started crying from thinking too hard about my characters' problems. Not even joking.
Also, my first thoughts for 4:34 were "I don't read fan-fiction that much, so I've never actually done this... but I could totally see myself doing that. To be fair, I think Dib needs the hug more" and really, I think that speaks for itself.
My life revolves around a little friend group of OCs I made for a fandom I’m in. I’m one of the only people who knows these characters exist, and yet I love all of them, and the ships I made between some of them.
Also, you’re not alone in making yourself cry over your own characters’ backstories :’)
I wish i wasn't so lazy that i just rp instead of writing,rip all my stories that popped up in my head while at class
“Having an OC story and characters that you’re overly invested in is really just being in a fandom hell with yourself and no one else”
As someone who once imagined I was part of a fandom with my OCs, you are correct
*too correct*
SO TRUE. I’m writing a fanfiction that only has my OCs, and my life pretty much revolves around them and the OC ships within them at this point. I’ve gotten SO attached to them all.
And I’m the only one who knows the characters exist aside from my (very few) readers
Sometimes i daydream about getting INTERVIEWED about my fanfiction and me just infodumping all the information on the fanfic and all the ocs i made that I HAVENT EVEN PUBLISHED
I have literally made memes about my characters that no one but me will understand because I have not written anything online about them
This kinda stuff makes me want to start writing even though I’m a programmer.
No, that's cool :D
4:53 happened once to me... only once. it wasn't even super specific too. like it was in a big fandom and I put the roommates tag (cus vine made me obsessed) and 10k word minimum. ONLY MINE WAS THERE.
My mum - Ok, (REDACTED FOR SECURITY) if you write a book I’ll fund you self publishing it.
Me - Oh thanks mum! I’m glad you’re a supporting mum instead of someone who tries to make me become something I don’t want to be.
Six weeks later:
Me - I KNOW WHAT I WANT AS LITTLE SIDE PLOTS TO KEEP IT INTERESTING AND ADD DEPTH BUT I HAVE NO FLOOFING CLUE WHAT THE MAIN PLOT IS!
"love icosahedron" that's just alabama
2:36 That's just dr Doofenschmirz and Perry the Platypus.
1:25 For double the points, have them kick a super Snarky Puppy.
3:59 I DO THIS ALL THE TIME LOLLLL
Can relate to planning many drafts and plot points but never to actual writing since I doubt I could write what I want to express properly.
That’s literally the truest thing ever
2:17 that or writing whole fics and selecting it all to copy and paste it and accidentally pressing a letter, deleting the entire work instantly with no way to bring 2 hrs of tears back ever again
You don't have an undo button?
@@appsnake7225 nope 😃
How about daydreaming for 2 years and still not starting to write yet ? No, I'll be honest, for the first time in 10 years I wrote a complete story.
It's just that it's hard to find your style. I read a lot of fanfics and literature. I'm a literary Prep school student specialized in Art. Writing a solid plot is complex but after years of studying Art and Literature I started to work around concepts. I have a specific theme in mind. For example, our representation of good and evil. Instead of opposing a good character and an evil character, I decided to twist it and wrote the following ideas:
"I want to explore the relationship between two morally wrong characters. I want to show how an evil character can fall prey to another evil character. Although I will describe how dangerous they can be, I will write how normal or fun they can be. The reader will naturally starts to like them, try to find justifications for their bad actions. The story will progressively turn into a psychological horror/thriller fiction. That is when the reader will understand that reality is sinking in, no they are not sympathetic, yes it will end up in a tragedy because that's logically how it would turn out. I want to write a story where the 'victim' and the 'agressor' can switch their roles, where the reader would understand that there is no good guy in this story when the 'victim' shows their brutality in the end, making the reader questions if there is such a thing as good and evil."
I know that those who will read my story will feel uneasy or probably wonder "what the fuck". They might want to quit reading. Or complain that the nice story they enjoyed was butchered in the end. But, that's actually the point. This is the kind of reactions I'm looking for. And to produce this effect I'm threading carefully my story.
I mean, have you ever read Emile Zola's Nana, Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Nabokov's Lolita ? The main character is unpleasant.
Humbert Humbert throws some good jokes, he is knowledgeable, he has a critical point of view of his own society. But dude is a pedophile. And you're standing there, reading the book and being confused because he looks likeable enough however he is a pedophile and you don't know if you should hate him with all your heart or still enjoys his wit. The first-person narrator forces you to get into his skin, through the good moments and the most horrible ones. And I think it's genius. The story is an ugly thing but at the end of the day it will make you think.
Still, I will admit that I'm quite sad to be unable to write a heartwarming story. It seems all my characters are wretched in some way. I try to write something really nice but I'm never happy with the result. It only works if I damage them a little.
4:58
Me, on a daily basis. Dang rarepairs
1:37 Y'all, the villain in my story is the bomb. She has abandonment issues and her hobby is sitting in her silver chair. She's an icon. (despite the fact that she is a horrible person.)
What's your story called and where can I read it
@@moonvixen275 it's called "Before We Turn to Stone" it's not done yet, but basically a girl gets cursed to slowly turn to stone and she needs to break the curse.
Cool thanks I'll give it a read when I can
By the way do you happen to have any tips on writing emotionally packed scenes because I have a condition and it makes me and able to feel strong feelings
6:07 SPILL
Then theres me, who writes characters in GREAT detail… buuuutt lacking any story to put them in 😩
This reminds me to write the 3 requests my now girlfriend gave maybe about 1 and a half-ish year ago- I swear I've played it again and again in my head as well as those other things I was gonna write-
People: Write what you know!
What I know: In the 2005 videogame Super Monkey Ball Deluxe for Xbox and Playstation 2, the names of the stages Tub and Rising Inclines' we're swapped on accident. In the remake, Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, PS5, PS4, and Steam, the names were still swapped.
1:44 one of the things that keeps me from writing is that I am too dumb to think about good conflict
5:42 no but I DID try to say that straight people read Tony the Tiger x Reader fanfics unironically, so yeah I feel you
I can do one better than the last one:
One night, I was watching some later episodes of MASH, and I can't remember why exactly, but something made me curious whether or not there was any Winchester/Klinger fics on AO3. Just went back to it after watching this vid, and atm, there are 267 of them, 243 of which were written by one person! :o
Probably not a 'ship anyone here is into, but hey... XD
About the touching scars thingie, I have that but they have a telepathical connection and it's a ✨mind scar✨
I'm currently writing a 'Thomas Sanders x bnha' fanfic where the sides are Thomas' quirk on Wattpad (cuz whatever)... and I keep on thinking of all the trouble the sides could cause when their in the same dorm. Coming up with prank ideas and how they'll react to actually SEEING the sides outside of basically possessing Thomas.... BUT I HAVNT GOTTEN THERE YET AND IT GETS KIDNA ANNOYING TO WRITE THE BOOK BUT NOT WRITE WHAT IM IMAGINING!!! JUST!?!? GET THERE ALREADY SO I CAN WRITE VIRGIL HANGING WITH THE EMOS AND ROMAN TWINKLING WITH AOYAMA AND.... UUUUGH!
(I would type out more, but spoilers. The stuff I put up was either obvious, or I put in the book that it was going to happen.)
“Writes 100k words solely to get to a scene that i’ve been replaying in my head over and over for months* and then don’t have the motivation or the mood to write it because you forgot what it felt like 👍
2:12
I literally had this conversation with myself the other day. I kill off one of the main characters, and their death is meant to be absolutely devastating to the audience and main character. But it's also devastating to me. Then I thought to myself, "You know you control whether they live or die, right?" And I was just like "Yeah, but the plot needs them to die..." I honestly feel so bad for my characters
you know what? yeah, to that last post. yeah, i should start writing all those sapphic pairings i see a distinct lack of...
Yang Xiao Long in fanfics sometimes 0:20
3:08 lol, this is literally my favorite vaderdala fanfiction trope
Once when I had corona I had written 3,000 words for a fic on my notes app on my tablet, it took an entire night as I was basically dying lmao
When I had corona, I spent almost two days straight on what’s probably the most detailed ship art I’ve ever drawn.
I don’t even draw often. I’m more of a writer 💀😭
the notes app fic,,,not i’m listening to this and writing in my notes app :|
Damn this is all so relatable, I currently want to write a fanfic but I want to make it a big story with a lot of chapters and I really want to put a lot of effort into it, but at the same time I'm not doing it because I'm scared of the commitment with the fic, like I really love the idea but I can't keep my motivation for long so I feel like that if I start I'll lose interest before finishing
This is true. I’ve been writing this one fanfic since literally September, and it’s at the point where I don’t care about it much anymore. I’m forcing myself to write it and wish it would just finish itself.
@@TheBritishDragong I feel ya. Just remember you're already doing a good job by having started
@@franziskavonmegan5840 Aw, thank you :) I only have about six chapters left to go, and I’m not completely unmotivated, so I think that, with a few months more, I can make it to the end.
@@TheBritishDragong just curious, but what's your fanfic about? If you're ok with telling it
@@franziskavonmegan5840 …just an obscure mobile game I play 💀 I guess I could give the name of the game but it’s a bit embarrassing
2:42 Me who made OCs with my friend and wrote a show with them: *think again.*