My main problem as a writer is that I don’t write because “I have a story to tell”. I write because there are worlds I want to visit, ideas I want to explore, people I want to meet, conversations I want to hear, emotions that I want to express, and impossibilities I want to make real.

Which means that I still need a fucking plot.

I just don’t write plots. All conversation, all the time.

I gotta start writing plays.

I wanted to write some post-Ragnarok Thorki porn BUT THESE IDIOTS JUST KEEP TALKING

iamhisgloriouspurpose:

malicemanaged:

ruby-red-inky-blue:

please someone tell me I’m not the only one who ignores all my actual duties to obsessively check whether there are new comments on my fanfics and re-read old ones if there aren’t.

I may or may not have kept some favourites in my inbox…

I only check once a day, because otherwise I’d lose my mind. But I do save them all to read offline when I’m feeling blue or stuck or having some kind of bad day. Because it’s nice to be reminded that I can write something that made someone laugh, or cry, or get so mad that they yelled at their screen. We all need that validation. And some days, I need it a lot.

Hell, I obsessively check for new kudos. I need whatever meager source of external validation I can get.

People who read uncompleted fics are the bravest people I know

claricechiarasorcha:

I like to think of it as a shared risk; the author takes a massive risk in writing something (for FREE) that may never be read by many people, so I think it’s only fair the reader take the risk in reading something they didn’t pay for that may never be finished.

The thing is, though, that if the reader comments on the work it could bolster and encourage the writer and make it more likely the fic WILL be completed, so. Circle of life, and all that.

Someone left a really lovely, long, thoughtful comment on the first few fics in my Thorki series and now I’m like… on tenterhooks waiting for them to come back and comment on the rest. Will they like all of them? Will they be terriby disappointed by one of the later ones?

I need that external validation. It’s like a drug, and it’s definitely habit-forming. And it’s entirely too easy to develop a tolerance.