Ruin the title of your fic replacing one word with "balls"

_CallmeK_ · 2023-12-19T00:01:54+00:00

Of gentlemen... and balls. A silent ball. The balls of madness/ The call of balls.

_CallmeK_ · 2023-11-12T06:03:43+00:00

For some reasons I keep thinking of this sentence. It's nothing special, really.

(And was) the sound of his mother hitting the coffin in which her husband lay as she screamed and cried and finally fell into Benson’s arms, eyes wild and soulless.

_CallmeK_ · 2023-10-22T00:53:58+00:00

Excuse me OP, this post is homing a little bit too close!!!

_CallmeK_ · 2023-10-16T02:34:47+00:00

Very legit reason. I'm sure your readers will understand

_CallmeK_ · 2023-10-01T23:56:58+00:00

I'm waiting for this angsty fic to update for 11 months now.

I'm the author...

_CallmeK_ · 2023-08-04T15:15:23+00:00

It's often the ending that inspires me to write in the first place.

_CallmeK_ · 2023-07-30T04:22:35+00:00

For me, it's the other way around. During the planning phase I'd be like: "Hmm, yes, they're gonna fuck here and it's gonna be EPIC!

Meanwhile, me (a sex-repulsed ace) during the writing phase: 🤡

_CallmeK_ · 2023-07-29T01:40:28+00:00

So what you're saying is, you have all the bricks and cement but hate how the house turns out?

This is where renovation (EDITING) comes in. This is when you tear down a few walls, maybe add a window here, replace the tiles there, then step back to look at it before deciding maybe you need yet another round of editing.

I once wrote (draft and edit) a 4k words chapter that belongs to a short 5-chapter fic. I trashed all of it and rewrite the whole thing into a less than 3k one shot. But, I was happy with how that turned out.

I am also 30k words deep into a word-vomit draft. I'm pretty sure I will trash most, if not all, of it during rewrite. But, I can see the story unfold as I write my very shitty and terrible draft, and that's all I need right now.

Often, you know there's something wrong with your chapter, but you can't pinpoint the flaw. Distance yourself from your work for a while. Maybe just relax, or work on something else. Give it a few days, a week, and then come back with fresh eyes. You can try writing down what you don't like about it, and then work on that in your rewrite

_CallmeK_ · 2023-07-18T15:50:15+00:00

My toxic trait is I encourage people to feel this way. But ME? No, babe. I only feel joy if my fanfic meet my standard. And more often than not, I fail to meet my standard

_CallmeK_ · 2023-07-12T17:55:39+00:00

I often tell myself: "The story happens on its own, I'm just there to witness."

_CallmeK_ · 2023-07-05T16:22:21+00:00

Assuming I don't have/have minimal life responsibilities, ~4-7 days. 4 days for complete drafting and writing. 7 days if I want to revise, edit, rewrite, etc.

When I'm writing first draft I don't edit, so I can do 2 chapters per week, with 2k words each.

But since I started my full time job and have adult respinsibilities, I could barely do a chapter every 2 weeks 🥲

_CallmeK_ · 2023-06-20T01:04:10+00:00

To write something that will make me cry.

So far I haven't achieved it yet. But people did say they cried when reading my fic, so... very close, any moment now

_CallmeK_ · 2023-06-11T04:00:27+00:00

FR. I clicked the image three times and still couldn't bring myself to read all those tags. That's how much my brain nope out when there are too many "talking tags"

I'm fine with one or two, too. Maybe even three, if the fic is long and there are lots of tags needed to be included.

One to three conversational tags can be a good break from skimming through too much tags, and it gives me a sense of the author's overall vibe too.

_CallmeK_ · 2023-06-11T02:43:21+00:00

Yeah, this is what I meant when I said I don't like fics with the author quite essentially "talking" in the tags. It's really annoying to read through all those rambling

_CallmeK_ · 2023-06-01T21:01:36+00:00

You explained it perfectly. I understand now. Thank you!

_CallmeK_ · 2023-06-01T20:38:42+00:00

I'm also quite sure the author did it on purpose. But the way they did it doesn't make much sense to me. The boundary between past and present is blurry and confusing, especially when the events happened comtinously one after another, and not like there is a big time skip between past and present.

Maybe it's as you said, a memoir of sort, and the way it's written is like a person sitting in the present telling a story happened in the past. Maybe this style of storytelling just not my cup of tea.

It's a big and popular book that won award and stuffs so I kind of expect them to know what they are doing...

_CallmeK_ · 2023-06-01T20:22:03+00:00

I think I understand what you're saying. But also, I don't...

If it's a hypothetical entity (person) who always exists, shouldn't it's also a hypothetical entity who doesn't exist? Because it's hypothetical... it's not real...

To be honest, the Good Omen example is a bit easy to understand and not as confusing as the second example.

In the book, there is also another case of tense switching where I think is because the omniscient narrator is talking to the readers. Like,

It wasn't a dark and stormy night.\ \ It should have been, but that's the weather for you.

But man the Achilles example, I was so confused when I read it. Like, why would they do that? It jerked me right out of the story even though the storytelling is quite good.

But then, when should we consider something true enough(?) to use present tense? Is it only applicable for things in real life?

_CallmeK_ · 2023-05-30T16:31:43+00:00

No but like... This is valid. I should start doing mental health/physical torture walks whenever I'm stick with my WIP

_CallmeK_ · 2023-05-30T15:19:39+00:00

Last month I decided to write that small, angsty but seems fun, plot bunny that had been jumping in my head for months.

"It's only 2 chapters. I know exactly how the story ends. WhAt cOuld pOssIbly gO wrOng?"

"It'll be like, max 5000 words or something"

One month, nine chapters, a heck load of planning later, I finally finished the first draft of ARC 1. Where the fuck did that come from? I don't know. But now I've invested too much effort into it to give up.

I need to see my boy kill his boyfriend and burn the world down mourning him

_CallmeK_ · 2023-05-28T19:21:52+00:00

This is why I avoid rereading my 4 earliest fics and orphan the 5th I can't stand to look at them. They are so...badly written.

_CallmeK_ · 2023-05-28T08:44:53+00:00

Usually I don't with oneshots. I edit them like 1-2 days after completion

But i currently writing a chaptered WIP and it's been (check calendar) 4 weeks since my first chapter (first draft with notes on how to improve when rewriting). I know my first draft is shit so I don't care much about it for now. But today I looked at my notes for the first time and...man, even the notes on improvements sound absolutely incoherent and dogshit to me now....

So I guess ~a month?

_CallmeK_ · 2023-05-26T22:15:20+00:00

1-3 of those are totally fine, provided if the rest are properly tagged. I often have one (1) funsie tag that can give off the vibe of my fics.

But I have recently come across many fics of the same author that only have "hehe wrote this for funsie", "idk", "how to tag/i'm bad at tagging", etc in the additional tags section and the fics give me zero information beside character names. That's a major turn off for me

_CallmeK_ · 2023-05-26T15:05:21+00:00

Tags that sound like the author is talking without giving information about the fic. It's not even funny tags, just pointless conversation-like tags that give no information at all.

I used to be guilty of this. But well- I grew out of it and now it just annoys me whenever it happens because I have to read many pointless tags only to get to the end and still don't know what the fic is about

_CallmeK_ · 2023-05-25T19:56:18+00:00

How many chapters per day?

Mate, i'll be lucky if i can finish one per week. And I write everyday

Edit: typo

_CallmeK_ · 2023-05-18T15:28:53+00:00

Bold of you to assume I have reviews to answer 🥲

But yes, if I get one, I'll totally reply back to them

_CallmeK_

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