![]() ![]() Still, I managed to push through my self-doubt, complete my fic, and post it. So I was very insecure about my version that didn’t use the known canon and instead uses my own ideas. The fandom already had a well-known and beloved backstory fic that was recced all the time for the character and that also established much of the standard fanon. But if not, please feel free to ignore.)Ī while back, I tried to write my own take on a character backstory for my fandom. (Hi, sorry to be awkward and barge into your inbox, but if you’re still giving writing advice, I’m hoping to get an opinion on how to let of my anxiety about writing. I am your target audience, and you’re making it harder for me to find you! And me, as someone who likes short stories and often particularly seeks them out, won’t see yours if I’m filtering for works that are 5k or less, for example. If someone is looking for a story that is at least 10,000 words, that means they want a story that’s at least 10,000 words, not 20 stories that are each 500 words. It also wrecks the ability to sort/filter by word count. This is what the Series connector is for! Let your fics breathe, even if they are only drabbles Signed, one very frustrated fandom grandma. at least consider the upsides of posting each work as their own fic. it’s just going to make some readers very happy when they can actually find the things they want to read. no one is going to look at you funny if you post a small ficlet on its own, I promise. There is absolutely no shame in posting short things on ao3. I automatically scroll past all works posted like that. but personally, I find it incredibly frustrating to weed through 31 chapters to find the ones I actually want to read. I can’t police what other people decide to do. it makes so much more sense to have each work as an individual fic with its own individual tags and warnings, so readers can make informed choices. there is nothing informative about it if the tags in the fic apply to random chapters while others have nothing to do with it. it’s about clear tagging and being informative. I might not even SEE the fic because I’ve filtered out the nope-tag! so I’m gonna lose out on reading 30 perfectly nice fics because of one fic that my nope-tag applied to.Īo3 is about archiving. if I look for things to read on ao3 I’m gonna look at the tags, and if the tags include something that’s a dealbreaker for me, i won’t even click on the fic. it doesn’t matter if they’re only 100 words or if you think they’re too small or insignificant to post alone, they’re not.īecause if you post all 31 of them in one fic the tagging is absolutely useless. if they’re 31 completely separate fics or ficlets then please just make a collection for them or just post them as separate fics. If you are going to do a whump- or kink- or ANY-tober or other similar challenges please please please don’t post them as one fic with 31 chapters unless it actually is one coherent fic. Since I’ve seen it talked about in several places recently: I can withstand the next week or two being tired, but so so happy. … well, it was, but you know what I mean. I’ve never felt so vindicated in my life. She assured me the doctors will see it too. ![]() But the kind woman saw how anxious I was that there would be nothing to be seen and showed me that she definitely saw disturbed, abnormal sleep patterns even though I took a heavy drug to make me fall asleep. The nurse who oversaw my sleep study isn’t allowed to diagnose me. Crossing fingers it doesn’t take too long to figure out the results. Just got the out-of-pocket cost quote for the stupidly expensive sleep test told to me today and that’s a lot of my recent bonus going to it but hopefully it’ll be all worth it and they’ll be able to tell me why I want to sleep 15 hours a day when I have no alarms, and why I still feel too tired to do anything. I just want to sleep and feel rested like a normal human being. I don’t know how I’m supposed to work like this, never mind do other things in life. All creative work has been put on hold to just try to do basic life stuff and that’s been a struggle the last few weeks. I think I’m going to have to start doing the stupidly expensive sleep tests because I’ve been struggling with this for a year and I feel like I’m back at square one. So the medicine that I started that was supposed to help with my sleep actually made it worse and not taking it has made it impossible to sleep and so if you’re wondering why I’m suddenly not around as much that’s why. ![]()
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