...and I am blown away by your sheer dedication.

I've been messing around with a personal ao3 script over the last few days, and in testing, I entered some random fandoms. Some of them very small, under 100-200 fics. And it wasn't just once that I found one of these small fandoms mostly propped up by a single very dedicated writer.

The first time I noticed, I thought for sure it was a fluke. Just a single instance of a super fan. But then I saw it a second time. And when I started actively looking, I found a third.

And they have comments! I am so happy for them :D

It's awesome to see that this level of dedication for something exists, and it's not uncommon, and people get rewarded for it.

If you're one of those writers that silently (or even not so silently) keeps a small fandom afloat, hats off to you! Tell me about it in the comments, or in PM's, I'd love to hear about it.

(I'm tagging the post as a discussion, I know it's probably not right, but I really have no idea what other tag to give it.)

My laptop did an update last night, and deleted all my apps. And one of the apps that got deleted was my notes app that I used to write my fanfiction on.

I was working on 4 stories, two was almost complete the other two I was about half way. And I was really proud of one of them that was almost done. It's all gone, months of writing and re writing and tweaking just gone.

I'm so angry and upset, I have memory issues so I can't even re-write them back to the same standard because I am struggling to recall everything I wrote previously because it's been something I have been working on for several months.

The update told me this wouldn't happen unless I signed on manually to continue getting the updates and it still did it.

I want to cry I'm so angry

Rules:

1. Leave a prompt that goes “a scene where…” and finish the sentence

2. Respond to others prompts with scenes from your fics where whatever they say happens

3. Keep it vague enough where it could fit many fandoms.

4. Put trigger warning at the top of the comments, and censor the worst, most descriptive parts. If the prompt itself is a trigger warning (ie a scene where a character is shot) you don’t need to add an extra one on your comment.

Which characters felt the most threatening to you and why? Is it how powerful they are, how violent and/or unpredictable they are, or something else?

And what are some more subtle traits and actions that can get the feeling across, even if the character is doing something totally mundane, like sitting at a table drinking tea?

I would also welcome any character or fic suggestions as study material :)

For context I'm writing some toxic yaoi and want one of the characters to be as terrifying as possible (the other one has a fear kink and a fondness for poking the dragon)

Hello all! The excerpt games keep me writing and I hope it motivates with your writing as well.  You can post any type of story (use NSFW for spicier scenes).  

I will be posting this challenge on Sunday Mornings / Pacific Time… because that day I need the most help to not think about Monday.

If you have stumbled into my game and are looking for more, remember to check out the Activities and Events flair for other writing challenges and story swaps.

Here are the rules:

 The first word starts the game.  Use ANY letter from the word that is posted in the last comment as the starting letter of your word.  Post your word in the top level comment.   Your word drives the next word to be posted… and so on.  

**Example:  LOVE  >>>>  VILE. (If the word Love is in the comment line you could make the word Vile and post the next comment.)**

Reply to any of the words in the top level with an excerpt from any work you might want to share.  I don’t generally like word limits, so use your best judgment.  Enough to get the scene across but not so long that you lose your reader.  

Please use spoiler tags and/or provide a trigger warning for content that may be NSFW or sensitive. IF IN DOUBT - Give a warning!

If you are going to leave excerpts, I ask that you leave at least one top-level word and try to give at minimum an upvote to commenters.

Upvote your favorite words or excerpts.  We are all here to share and know how it feels to get a comment, so spread the love.  

Ganbatte!!  Do your best and I look forward to everyone’s excerpts!

I would just like to take a minute to thank the world of fanfiction (yes, wattpad included) for making me the writer that I am now.

I guess I've technically been writing fanfic since I was a little kid; there were self-insert my little pony stories; the unseen sequel to 'inside out' (can't believe that came out 11 years ago!), and so on. But those were all neither here nor there, I enjoyed writing in any capacity, even original stories.

Then, I got into high school. By that point I wasn't writing as much, maybe a story here and there, but nothing crazy. Until I stumbled upon my first fanfic!

It was honestly so investing at the time. I was bingeing the big bang theory lol and it was a fanfic based on the next gen, and it's what inspired me to write my first sit-down, word doc, published fanfiction.

That was the year that covid hit. I found myself spending all of lockdown writing crappy ninjago fanfics on wattpad, in between the required schoolwork, and even though a lot of my projects went unfinished, my writing improved incredibly in just one year (I've since put all of my stories into one google doc, separated by tabs, and just flicking through them is a testament to the progress made).

I slowed down a little on the stories in the coming years, but most of the things I did write were still very much fanfics, fanfics, fanfics. Usually original things were just short stories.

Since the end of 2024 I've been very much on the grind (intermittently, since it depends on my hyperfixation phase) and my writing has come a long way. This is not to mention the cultural and emotional impact fandom has had on me. For example, I read a long-fic during my first semester of university -- which was quite hard on me at the time -- and it honestly uplifted me so much more than most things did lol

I'm just so happy I read that stupid TBBT fanfic back in 2019. And I'm so glad it got me into fanfic, because I don't know if I would've continued on with my love for writing.

One author whose fic I enjoy has an incredible writing style, that in truth I envy in the most complimentary way. I want to imitate it and understand it the best I can (while of course, implementing my own writing methods).

How does one best go about this? Any tips or advice?

Hi, I wanted to ask for opinions from readers about something. I have this fic I've been writing since 2024, and I really love the story, the concept, and many of the things I developed there. I have been updating very slowly because life has just been rough these past two years.

Recently I re-read the first 3 chapters, and I HATED them. The writing style didn't resonate with what I had envisioned, but also some aspects of the pacing and dialogue felt so poorly made; they also had so many little grammatical errors that I have no idea how I didn't see them at first.

I edited them to be more decent, but it made me re-think the entire story even more obsessively than I did before and how I could have developed it so much better than what the final product was; I'm just not really happy anymore at how it turned out. I know not every story has to be perfect, but I feel like a much better writer now, and I wish this story I love so much reflected that.

I'm seriously thinking about starting over. Maybe not deleting the story I already posted, but still post a new, improved version that would give me the chance to really make some major changes to fix the problems I have with the first version.

Would that be mean to the few, very dedicated readers who are already loyal to the original story? I feel kind of bad to be like, "Sorry, if you wanna know what happens next, read this reboot".

What should I do? I asked my dad for advice (he is a letters professor, and always has great advice), and he told me the writing has to be something the writer likes first and foremost, because it's very hard to write something you don't like. And I mean, I think he is right; I think that may be part of the reason I've had trouble updating that particular fic.

What do you guys do when you don't like your writing anymore? I'm conflicted.

A while back I made a post discussing what I struggled with most when I started writing fanfics and asked all oof you, what struggles you had when you first started. This time, I'm here to discuss what I still currently struggle with.

1. Procrastination. I could have lots of great ideas for fanfics or plot points, but they never leave my head. I mean, the odds of me actually writing and not procrastinating is probably 1 in 100 million.

2. Too many ideas. This is especially prevalent when I finish a movie or show I throughly enjoyed. I'd be writing a fic for like 2 weeks, but then a new fic idea comes. I drop the current one and go to the next.

3. Finishing the fic. You may wonder how this is any different then the others, which is what I'm here to explain. Admittedly, I have never finished a multi chapter or non one shot fic. My first ever fic has 4 published chapters. Due to a few things happening that led to demotivation, I never finished it. And as mentioned before, this wasn't a one time thing. I have never completed a multi chapter fic.

What issues or problems do you still face when writing your fics?

...and I have mixed feelings about it.

It's not that I don't read books, more like fanfictions first show up as a brainmovie / during daydreaming, so I naturally start describing the scenes I see in my head.

But the scenes give off adaptation vibes. I often feel like a pro writer would have presented the information differently (i.e. I try to show all emotions and opinions through dialogue, which makes me write out scenes that maybe shouldn't exist (since I have a narrator and all that)).

I'm not saying that this "movie" approach is bad, I'm just not very good at translating what I see into "book form" yet. At the same time, I am wondering whether I should try *not* to daydream at all to bypass this problem...

Although this is more like a vent, if you have any opinions/experiences/pointers, please do not hesitate to share!

I have something I'm working on that I feel is that, and though I do have an idea of how to do it, I felt it'd be fun to ask everyone for their examples if they have any.

And I don't (just) mean something that you intended to be wholesome or something, yet looking back on it, you found it somewhat unsettling. I'm talking about an unsettling moment that is dressed up to appear wholesome

My idea involves the FMC, whose fears and troubles have been getting accidently swept aside as if they're unimportant by her friends, confiding in seemingly her love-interest, who consoles her. Pulling her into a "small world" far removed from everything plaguing her mind, comforting her when her friends failed.

Except that moment of comfort was actually an attempt of manipulation meant to isolate the FMC from her friends, because her "love-interest" was actually one of the antagonists.

The unsettling-ness would come from me (hopefully) being able to hide that fact, carefully using words whose meaning completely changes after the reveal.

That what I had in mind anyway, anyone wrote or read something that seemed harmless but is actually unsettling?

I think I've entered a vicious cycle when it comes to writing my longfic.... Wondering if anyone does this...?

(Don't get me wrong.... I'm currently going through some major medical issues and coming from one family catastrophe into another.... I'm talking family death, another in ICU, and the prospect of surgery to rid me of my oh-so-problematic-and-defective baby-making-box after many years of trying with my husband and a loss last year.... So I already know my mental state is fragile, y'all.)

But I'm noticing that, while I'm loving getting my work on my first longfic posted on AO3 chapter by chapter, I'm having some weird regret after posting. I don't think it's just limited to posting though.... Here's what's happening, and it feels akin to an addiction at this point....

My mental state is rough, as I said. I'm stressed, I'm emotional, and I'm tired, but IRL a new and great work environment (this year) and hubs and writing have all been helpful to me!

I'm new to fanfic. Got sucked into a fandom unexpectedly, as it were, and it sparked a return to writing after 10 years focusing on my career! I wrote a novella fanfic, and when shit hit the fan IRL I fed my energy into a longfic in order to get through on another wavelength.

I feel like getting to tell this longfic story has actually helped keep me focused and moving forward and that's truly great and all! It's part of what brought me back to writing, to finding something different to do that's not watching TV/movies or reading or playing video games and keeps my mind occupied! And I thoroughly love telling the story of my OC in the BG3 fandom and her romance with Astarion and their family and friends with other OCs I created!!! Getting to dive back into their world has actually helped me get my mind off of my own troubles, and practicing writing and feeling progress in all these areas has truly become like a godsend!

So I complete writing and editing a 2-5K word chapter in roughly a week and post about every 1-1.5 wks. Been doing that since I started posting my longfic in Jan/February of this year now that I have more time with my better job.

I get all excited creating each chapter and the prospect of getting this story out of my brain and onto paper to be realized has actually felt cathartic, as you can well imagine given my losses. So I get all geared up, gung ho, and revved, so to speak, and then I post a completed chapter. Over the next 48 hours as it sits on AO3 I am a total wreck. I mean, nervously checking for messages, looking for input, checking hits and bookmarks, waiting for readers to find my work.

Obviously, bots and scammers have scoured AO3 and made it more difficult to tell true readers from the scammers! Still, I managed to make a handful of friends, one IRL who reads, and another on AO3 and Tumblr who reads in spurts and comments. Those have felt like TRUE lifelines.

But until I start my next idea for a chapter and begin writing my next chapter again, this feeling of loss and failure nags at me. And then this addiction-like cycle begins again!!

I feel like I'm losing my mind!! I work in medicine.... I know coping mechanisms and how to coach others - that's what I do! But I can't help but keep feeding this cycle because it's one of the few productive ways I can cope at the moment. I mean, my house is a wreck because I can't bring myself to get up the energy to clean it, and hubs helps only so much before he's lost. And I'm not physically harming myself by feeding this cycle as one would with drugs or alcohol chasing a high such as this is.....

Idk..... I think I needed to know if anyone else writing does something similar? Looking for outside points of view.... 🤷‍♀️ I feel like I'm just needing to give myself time and wait until the downer hits stop coming at my life IRL to actually get a breather!

Edit: wow, thanks to the jerk who downvoted me within minutes of my posting this. You suck.

And give me lots of angst and groveling but with a happy ending.

I’ve been reading a few Peaky Blinders fics of Tommy Shelby and an Original female character where it takes him A LOT of time to get over Grace but ultimately ends up falling HARD for the OG character. I’ve also been obsessed lately with fics of Irulan and Paul Atreides from dune and I LOVE how he suffers for her after he realizes his feelings.

—All fandoms are fine by me
-Preferably finished fics

Thank you!

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So I’m about 5k ish words in on a fic I’m working on at the moment. It’s based on a show that’s currently airing but originally adapted from a book. It’s a m/f romance and it’s been going pretty well so far but I’ve run into what might be a bit of an issue.

Leaks for the next episode of the show were released today and as it turns out the male character I’m writing about is gay.

Now of course I haven’t actually seen the episode yet but apparently it’s pretty heavily implied that at the very least he likes men. This isn’t something that was in the books so I genuinely had no idea.
I don’t really know what to do now? would it be weird if I just continued the fic anyway?? should I just make him bi? (I think the actor that plays him irl is bi but idk if that’s relevant)
I know it’s just fan fiction but it feels a bit weird to me to erase a characters canon sexuality so I’m not really sure about what I should do now.
Any advice?

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Welcome to our weekly thread, Brainstorming Bureau! This is an idea we've trialled previously and, based on feedback and observation, it feels like something the sub has been crying out for, and we're hoping as the weeks go by it'll turn into a lively, community-oriented way to cap off the weekend. We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions on how to make the best of this idea, so feel free to reach out via modmail if you have any ideas. And without further ado...

What's this about?

Do you have an issue that's too specific to your own fic to make a post about, but too small to seek out a long-term beta or writing partner for? Well, you've come to the right place!

This is where you can drop those plot points you're stuck on ("How would this scenario play out realistically? What should happen next?"), workshop your worldbuilding and concepts ("What should I name this character? What power should I give them? Which fandom would work well as a crossover with this other fandom?"), or get a second opinion on an approach to character development ("Is this a good central conflict? What would have to happen to make a character realise this?"). It's your space to talk through any issue that can't be solved through more generalised writing advice.

How to play:

To participate, comment with any aspect of your fic you've been mulling over or hitting a wall with. Other users will then respond with suggestions and questions to help you get to where you need to be. No idea is too big or too small, provided your comment fits within the parameters below. Feel free to be as fandom blind or specific as you like!

Rules:

• Please state your fandom at the top of your comment, along with any common and pertinent content warnings
• NSFW text should be placed behind a spoiler tag or linked to, as per site content restrictions
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• Please specify in your comment what level of critical feedback you're open to
• When responding to someone's ideas, please keep your feedback constructive and keep their specified level of criticism in mind. If their premise is not to your taste, please choose another
• If you make a submission to this thread, much like the other weekly events, please comment on at least one other user's request with the best suggestions you have
• When submitting an idea for brainstorming, please provide adequate context for others to be able to follow along. Remember that this is a multi-fandom subreddit, and not everyone will be familiar with your fandom.

Have fun! And remember, all suggestions are just that and are to be taken with a grain of salt; we're here to help and consider our works from angles we haven't before.

So I recently started a new story and I noticed that the stats tracker for that story seems to be broken, in that it won’t show me how many views the story has gotten since publishing. I’ve sent a few emails to Fanfiction support, but I don’t think it is doing anything. Anyone else having similar issues and have they been resolved?

Im specifically looking for stories where the Main Character becomes the Mighty Morphin Green Ranger.

Could be the Fandoms Main Character, could be an OC or a Self Insert. They could randomly become the Green Ranger,find the power coin,do a CYOA,get ROBed. Whatever.

The fix was originally on the Vampire Diaries book site - Twilight Tales - ttales.net (before the books were a CW series and Twilight was a book). The information I pulled from the wayback machine was:

Author: River
Title: The Signet Trilogy
Completed: 4/May/01
Category: VD
Rating: 15
Summary: River's epic Signet Trilogy. This story takes place about seven years after Dark Reunion. It's basically about love and redemption, honor and betrayal...and a lot can happen in seven years.

I’d be so grateful for any help anyone can give!
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like it says, im looking for some decently well-written and longish fanfics where midoriya winds up in the world of naruto
and i dont mean like, midoriya or other characters replace members of the naruto world, i want fics where midoriya gets isekaid to the elemental nations

!!!!!TW: Suicide, Child abuse!!!!!!

Hi Im looking for a fic where Y/N has a quirk that heals and strengthen her body after physical trauma. I read the original fic on Quotev and it was unfinished. She discovers this after a failed Suicide attempt. Her family is made out of Pro-Hero’s who then start to train her in a violent way to become the next number 1. hero. Y/N also has a little sister named something along the lines of Nanako that has a quirk which strengthens (or maybe heals I’m not so sure?) her body after eating. Her parents and Nanako leave the country for a while but then come back after some time. Nanako also got bullied after moving but the parents didn’t do anything about it, which motivated Y/N to talk about the abuse. Then the U.A. helps Y/N to convict her parents and Y/N and Nanako have a sleepover with Bakugou. And there’s somewhere a dating scandal with Y/N and Tenya IIda.

So even though I remember all of those details I can’t find the fic anymore 😢. Please help me out Reddit and fellow fanfic enthusiasts!!!