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Post by 🎃ᦓρ꠸ᥴꫀᠻꪖꪀᧁ👻 on Jul 13, 2023 5:48:52 GMT -5
To all of y'all who post fanfiction- Where do you post it? For me, AO3 will always be my savior. The best place for fanfiction, imo. Warriors Fan Fiction board here, or my google docs and I just never share it. I’m still on the waiting list for AO3, so maybe once I’m in I’ll start posting there.
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Post by Brownie on Jul 13, 2023 9:35:43 GMT -5
For warriors fic, here! It's a bit slow but has the bonus of having people you can actually talk to and interact with <3 And honestly the comments I get from here are worth so much more than anon comments on other sites. (and if you ARE writing warriors fanfic and are sharing please share here too! the only way to bring the wff corner back to activity is for more people to add their updating 'fics to it and interact with other people's threads!!) Other fic, Ao3 is the only real option now. Which is fine, and their tagging system is great, it just feels very impersonal to me. More like sharing a personal document from my computer with other people instead of posting a story for interaction with the community. Are one-shots allowed on here then? Because I have a Princess x Smudge one-shot that's completed that I'm willing to post. Most things on there are oneshots so yes
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Jul 13, 2023 11:20:18 GMT -5
I always think about going back to warriors fanfic bc i kinda miss it. But I think I'm so detached from the books at this point I couldn't actually write it convincingly anymore.
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Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Jul 13, 2023 11:59:57 GMT -5
For warriors fics & one-shots, I always use to post them in warriors fan fiction. I don’t generally post my other work anywhere else.
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Post by Brownie on Jul 13, 2023 12:14:44 GMT -5
I always think about going back to warriors fanfic bc i kinda miss it. But I think I'm so detached from the books at this point I couldn't actually write it convincingly anymore. Write fanclan it's easy and you don't have to remember anything about canon
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Jul 13, 2023 13:46:36 GMT -5
I never really got into writing fanfic, even back in my fandom days. I'd read it on occasion. But I only experimented with writing drabbles and the like a few times.
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Post by ! (Ġray) ! on Jul 13, 2023 17:19:26 GMT -5
Well, time to repost my warriors fanfic on wff
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Jul 14, 2023 10:18:38 GMT -5
I think the weird part of progressing to a more practiced writer is suddenly realizing how baby authors try too hard to sound profound in their writing. Like no shame, we all start there, but it is kind of funny in retrospect.
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Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Jul 14, 2023 12:41:56 GMT -5
I’m not sure I could sound profound even if I wanted to. It’s never been my style of writing //shrug
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Jul 14, 2023 12:53:53 GMT -5
I think a lot of the times, the profound bits sorta come out organically without much forethought or planning. Basically when a writer isn't consciously trying to be deep. Otherwise, its easy to get all mucked up with the vocabulary and wordiness out of concern that a weighty philosophical moment isn't "hitting right".
The real error, imo, is when a writer has a genuinely thought-provoking message to send through the characters, but messes up by over-explaining or dwelling on it too long. As opposed to just letting it sit with the reader.
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Jul 14, 2023 14:13:48 GMT -5
I always think about going back to warriors fanfic bc i kinda miss it. But I think I'm so detached from the books at this point I couldn't actually write it convincingly anymore. Write fanclan it's easy and you don't have to remember anything about canon See I pretty much just wrote fix-it fics and crackfiction back in the day, and neither of those translates to fanclan very well lol
Also I guess I did do some near-original ones that only had the tie of "it's about cats" to make it warriors ff, but those were basically where I started getting back into actual original fiction after several years of just doing ff and I don't think I'll be revisiting those unless I eventually decide I wanna write an anthropomorphic animal story of my own.
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Jul 14, 2023 14:53:29 GMT -5
Also in regards to profound media I think while it's def possible to fall into purple prose, tryhard poeticism, or overexplaining (and honestly I think this impulse is visible in published fiction way too often), it's also about what you take seriously? A more experienced writer can look at their early work and see that it was simplistic, cliched, and kind of goofy, but while they were writing it they were taking it seriously. Overall just think that a lot of times the attempts at profundity in early work may be less about trying to be deliberately profound and more just bc at the time the story did feel profound to them and with those early writing skills that over-poeticized manner was the only way they could think to express it. Like I don't think I've ever deliberately tried to make myself sound smart or wise in my writing, even when I was starting out. But there's definitely passages in some of my work that might come off that way just bc at the time I didn't know how else to write about it that would give it narrative weight. Learning to be subtle as a writer is long-term and often difficult work.
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Jul 14, 2023 20:15:47 GMT -5
I'm so glad to see this thread still active, I'm horrible at checking in on it
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Jul 14, 2023 22:19:00 GMT -5
Like I don't think I've ever deliberately tried to make myself sound smart or wise in my writing, even when I was starting out. But there's definitely passages in some of my work that might come off that way just bc at the time I didn't know how else to write about it that would give it narrative weight. Learning to be subtle as a writer is long-term and often difficult work. That's sort of what I mean. There's a desire to translate onto the metaphorical page something that comes across as impactful in the writer's mind, but they don't yet have the ability to translate it organically. So they get caught up with the language and over-explanation in an attempt to properly convey the importance/weight of a scene as it exists in their head. It is, as you say, a reflection of skill level. I just find it a little funny when I recognize it in other baby writers and in my own past work. The patterns of some experiences (or lack thereof?) are amusingly common. Oh, to be fourteen and writing my first story again...
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Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Jul 16, 2023 15:37:11 GMT -5
//shrug
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Jul 16, 2023 15:59:44 GMT -5
Do you usually aim to outline a lot?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2023 17:15:19 GMT -5
I've finished four things...when I was a bebe author...and they were 15 pages long...better than most things I get done.
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Post by ! Wisp ! on Jul 18, 2023 0:04:55 GMT -5
Am I going to pull an all nighter just to (hopefully) finish one chapter? Yes, yes I am.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2023 5:39:00 GMT -5
Grammarly was helping me find names for my Warrior Cats fanfiction; I wanted to be its own thing, so I got The Clawed Chronicles, which was PERFECT!
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#f0a9e4
Name Colour
Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Jul 19, 2023 7:00:24 GMT -5
What is grammarly?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2023 8:27:22 GMT -5
A app, website thing that helps you with your grammer, tone, and other stuff
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Jul 19, 2023 12:01:55 GMT -5
Does anyone like...mentally color-code their characters? Like even if you describe them as wearing several different things over the course of the work, even if you don't really focus on their clothes at all, in your mind they're just attached to a certain color? I feel like I do this w/ almost all my WIPs even though it generally has no narrative purpose.
Also I've realized my main characters tend to be shades of red which I think is interesting bc I don't really like red personally
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Post by valleylight on Jul 19, 2023 12:37:30 GMT -5
I don’t always consciously think about it, but I do the same thing! My primary protagonists tend to be greens or yellows.
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Jul 19, 2023 20:07:33 GMT -5
All my characters are color coded lol, I’ve assigned them all a “color” that I associate them with, it’s helpful for when I draw them
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Jul 19, 2023 20:22:55 GMT -5
Interesting! I can't say I experience that with my characters.
Question for y'all, out of curiosity .... when you come up with an original writing project, which idea do you typically come up with first: the characters, the story/plot, or the world?
For me it's pretty much always characters, then world, and the plot last.
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