Stuff that feels rewarding as a fanfic author

thorins-magnificent-ass:

laraslandlockedblues:

cullenstairshenanigans:

hils79:

eruriholic:

stuff that feels rewarding as a fanfic author:

• when your work inspires fanart/comics
• when people point out a scene/particular line(s) that tugged at their heartstrings
• when people ask for your meta of your work that they enjoyed so much
• when someone comments on a fic you wrote 982783113502 years ago
• getting recc’d
• just the small happiness in knowing you made someone out there smile on their way to work/home or at school, in knowing you warmed someone’s heart somehow

• Getting yelled at for making someone cry

Being told your stuff inspired someone else to write

• When people leave long thoughtful comments that tell you what parts of your writing they love, what parts stood out to them, what parts they could see in their mind as if they were there. Bonus points for quoting the sentences they loved and telling you why.
• When people leave incoherent screaming comments because they’ve lost the ability to form words in response to your writing and so they just shriek at you instead.

• When they tell you the eight other things they should be doing, and that they stopped all of them just to read your fic.
• That an old fic is the one that keeps them up at night
• Or they make imagines and scenarios based off your fic