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Does anyone ever feel that they've bitten of more than they can chew, fanfic-wise? I idly posted a ficlet, which got a lot of nice comments, so I posted a second part, and now somehow I seem to have created expectations that my story will be a long, chaptered fic. I don't know if I have the smarts to deliver, and I'm basically panicking.

Been there, done that.

One thing to remember is that you don't have to write the big fic that people expect/want. You're completely free to say "I'm glad you liked it, but it's just a two-parter."

If you do decide to go for it, you might want to consider outlining. Not necessarily every plot-point, but where, in general, you want the story to go.

ayrt

Thank you for your advice! Yeah, I'm doing the outline thing, and my brain is still throwing ideas at me so that's something at least. I've just never written more than 2-3k ficlets before, so it's incredibly intimidating.

I'm not going to post another chapter until I've got the story a bit more sorted. Also, most of the comments are in the vein of "More please!" which just makes me more nervous!

I know the feeling, but remember that other peoples' expectations are not your problem. You don't have to oblige them, no matter how many begging/entitled reviews you get, or how many people asking you about it. Do what is fun and feels right to you, and reasonable readers will understand. There'll always be unreasonable readers, of course, but hey, fuck 'em.

When I leave comments saying "I'd really love to see where this fic goes" and the like. I don't expect an author to write what they don't want to or feel is done. I'm simply trying to offer encouragement and positivity to the person who does have ideas but maybe lacks confidence or who wants to see people are responding positively before they continue. Just so you know where maybe some of the comments are coming from.

I'm stormpilot trash but my fandom friend likes Kylux so I'm writing him a (soft) Kylux story for his birthday. It's gonna be fun!

Fic I'm writing is coming along well, I got it all figured it out in my head. I need to learn to put down a certain number of words everyday, so it becomes a habit and I can really get better faster.

And I'm gonna start from scratch another fic idea, because I've been dragging this other one for too long and I'm not in love with my own fic anymore.

Maybe more of an LJ question, but do writers go on LJ anymore? I feel like whenever I talk about writing, there's radio silence unless it's related to fanfic...

I do, but I don't post on LJ anymore.

Thanks, but my question was more about people who still do go on LJ.

Yeah, there's a small number of crowdfunders who are pretty devout (I'm among them). There's the crowdfunding community, but if you're not involved, I'm honestly not sure? I mean, I'm still doing okay, but my fanbase is of the "small and quiet but mighty" variety, so I rarely get comments and such.

I'm writing a The Man from Uncle fanfic, and I want to use an arranged marriage trope.... but it's set in the 60's when gay marriage wasn't a thing. Any advice on how to handle this?

To be honest, my advice would be to just say it's an alternate universe where gay marriage was legal in the 50s.

You can't really without making it an AU. And that just seems really revisionist.

Is there any way to write an OFC for an Outsider POV fic without being accused of being a Mary-Sue? Or should I just accept that the possibility of that accusation exists whenever I write and OFC, and just get the hell over it?

Yes to both.

I would appreciate advice on the methods of either preventing accusations of suehood, or of the not giving of fucks.

I personally think that writing an Outsider POV fic with an OFC is a different thing than writing an OFC into an existing canon as a main character (who coincidentally is a love interest for one of the main characters etc.).

I think if you stay in the realm of what's feasible for a person in the position/role you want that POV characters to take, you won't get a lot of problems as outsider POV characters done right tend to be much more neutral than any other type, in my experience.

It also depends a lot on the way yoh tell the story itself: If you just use the characters as a means of a neutral POV, that will be no trouble at all. If you create an elaborate, OTT backstory for the character,if you embellish it to hell and back and only write about that for the most time and only bring in the outsider POV as a side note, that will possibly ring the Sue warning bell for some people.

So in general, I think for an outsider POV, a bit less character details and elaborate background is probably helpful.

Looks like my brother and I have just about finished the first fifty pages of this novel we're writing. It's the most productive couple of weeks either of us can remember, and we've both been around the block a few times.

Go you!

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