I am trying to be better about leaving comments. On LJ comments were how people knew they were being read, so I was more fastidious (and chatty), but shifting to AO3 for a long time I relied on dropping kudos because I'm kind of an awkward human sometimes and it was like, "Excellent. I can leave a sign that I read and enjoyed without having to risk being terrible at interaction with a stranger."
Lately, though, I've seen a lot of folks in the fandom encouraging comments, and so I'm working on doing better at it, even if it's just a "YAY, THIS IS AWESOME!"
I thought I was paying in wine? Was that a euphemism? COULD I HAVE BEEN DRINKING THIS ENTIRE TIME?
(Just kidding. I am already drinking.)
Yeah, it's hard to write porn sometimes. Like, you can get stuck on diction, or have trouble getting a grip on things like blocking.
Hell, I've seen people lose the main thrust of the fic by slipping in porn.
(I'm not even a little sorry.)
Everything about this is magnificent.
OMG YES.
makes a note to read this thing
I caught this one the other day! I like it a lot. Yes.
There are plenty of other good reasons to drink. He misses his ship, which as of now is still grounded and full of holes. His dad’s in the wind and probably dead by now. His brain may or may not be a time bomb. His brother’s in mourning. His favorite jacket’s in some evidence lock-up on Coruscant with the spice he couldn’t sell to the client who’s pissed off, and therefore not paying him several hundred much-needed credits.
Yeah, everything’s coming up Winchester.
(Technically this is seven lines. I regret nothing.)
I like my current schedule, though I think if I could change anything it would be my ability to be productive in that writing, and to write things that aren't the thing I most WANT to be writing.
Like, I quit my full-time gig to take a part-time job and start writing professionally, but part of that was also for mental health reasons, and fanfic is the thing I'm most functional doing at the moment.
If I could balance things better with original fic, that would be ideal.
Thinking about it, though it'll depend on where I am with my current longfic. NaNo is usually my time to work on an original long project, though the last couple of years have been mixed successes (i.e. I haven't touched the draft from two years ago, and last year Didn't Work Out).
Oh, hello.
Oh man. I am...I am so bad at reading WIPs, but I think I just hit the Mark For Later button so hard the earth cracked.
Momentum can be a problem for me on long projects if I'm not getting regular feedback. It's so much easier getting over the bumps and rough bits with other people reading.
Like, when I started Wheel, I thought, "Okay. This will be a thing I finish before I start posting so I can post it on a regular schedule," but got to the point where writing just felt very...lonely?
It's a process. Especially given that I do a little bit of writing for traditional/non-fan markets. But man. I struggle.
Do you want these as comments or posts?
EEK. :D
Hey, if you're going to overturn a nascent Republic, you've got to break a few star systems...
AYUP. Dean's a smuggler/bounty hunter, Sam was going to school on Hosnian Prime before the First Order blew it up, and Cas is an independent student of the Force.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/6111391/chapters/14007787
Frankly, I'm the happiest nerd ever.
I mostly lean canon, or at least canon-feasible, but my WIP is an increasingly-long Star Wars AU, so...yeah. There goes my cred in that arena.
It kind of depends on what I'm working on and who I'm writing. My iTunes library on shuffle is kind of my general background noise. Being in various people's heads, though, sometimes I'll dig for specific songs (Bastille's remix/cover of "Bloody Shirt" is a big one), or I'll put my Nine Inch Nails collection on shuffle (good for Dean's self-loathing, smut, etc.) or grab the nearest Zep album.
Sabbath is weirdly terrible for me to write to. I also expected AC/DC to be less distracting. The Doors are becoming a new favorite, though.
waves a lot
I'm gonna spike the punch! :D
pokes radio buttons
Jumping on the "all" bandwagon.
Yes. Yessss. Do the thing. :D



SPN Fic WritersDo you leave comments on fics when you finish reading them?Sep 30, 2016 at 12:12 PM


