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⌈ Secret Post #5750 ⌋

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Writing Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Ask for and give out writing advice in the thread!

I want to write fic. I'm itching to write fic. I know who I want to write about, but beyond that - I'm stumped! I don't have any ideas. What are some useful ways of figuring out what to write?

Re: Writing Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Look at some prompt lists and find a situation that you want to put those characters into.

Re: Writing Advice

[(Anonymous)]

anyone know how to get back into writing a fic after falling off the bandwagon for a few months due to motivation issues?

Re: Writing Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I wrote a story last year and started the sequel almost immediately and then abandoned it in May and just came back to it in August. I reread both stories and made a playlist and just kind of vibed with the story to get back into the plot and rhythm of the story and character voices. It's going really well, I was stuck on chapter six and now I've just posted chapter ten last week (of a planned fifteen).

Re: Writing Advice

[(Anonymous)]

For me, I listen to music that reminds me of that fic (listening to music helps me with writing, for some fics I might have a couple of songs as a "theme" song for my fic, like a soundtrack ^_^ ) as I re-read bits of the unfinished fic. It tends to rev up a little creativity juice.

Also...I read a fic or two that is similar in premise (or even just the same pairing) to my fic and see how that writer wrote and apply it to myself "Do I write like that?" "What would I write different?"
I try not to go in with a jealous/envious mindset ("what can I do to write better than this person?") More of a self evaluating exercise ("what makes this fic work? does it apply to my writings? Why/why not?" "What methods could I try out in my own writings?" "Does this trope/theme seem too repetitive? Do I care?")

Like, focus on yourself more than the other writer(s)/works. What you're looking for is something to relate to and contrast to your own ideas.

Re: Writing Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Write what you're itching to write. It might start shaping itself once you put pen to paper/fingers to keyboard.

Re: Writing Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I second prompt lists. October is a big promptathon month in a lot of genres and fandoms and kinks so there's a lot of lists floating around now that you can look at and try to glean ideas (even if you don't do the whole month's worth of stuff). Or ask your fandom friends for prompts or plotbunnies and see if something kicks off the dust?

Re: Writing Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I agree about looking up writing prompts (even in my small fandom there are a lot of great writing prompts when I search on tumblr).

An exercise I do sometimes is I think of Character A and how they'd behave on a seemingly mundane task.

IE. Anthony Bridgerton tries to start up a fire

I think of a character I personally enjoy Character A dynamic with (if it's a Character A/Character B pairing, it doesn't always have to be Character B; depends on what my brain does with the prompt) and see if there is a situation/conversation I can create from that.

These exercises don't always equate a story but it builds a foundation of sorts. It gets me into the world building and gives me a taste of how I am wanting to write Character A. I might get rid of the "Anthony wants to start up a fire" scene entirely later on when I develop an actual story.

You can write it OP!!!

Re: Writing Advice

[(Anonymous)]

The only thing that's worked for me is identifying the type of story I like reading and writing that. Even if it's the 50,000th coffee shop AU in the fandom, it's far easier for me to start writing that than trying to force anything else. And sometimes further inspiration comes once I get going.