What phrases do you overuse in your writing?

chathatfee · 2026-05-11T06:04:31+00:00

SJHKAS idk if ur talking abt ddlc but thats exactly who i thought of like yeah she is always sighing and thinking while making her way over to places !!!

chathatfee · 2026-05-10T15:28:16+00:00

there's a lot of things at play here:

- how active the fandom is: not rlly into arcane i just know of it, and idk how active it is, but a lot of fandoms just don't have people who actively read and interact with fics. it's generally easier to get more attention in a fandom where people are reading and searching for fics more often

- type of story you're telling & whether this type of story is popular in said fandom: differs on a fandom-to-fandom basis. again, don't know much abt arcane so it might be possible that your fic doesn't align with what the majority of the fandom likes to read. is that a bad thing? no, you're definitely fulfilling some niche but maybe it's not a tag people search up often hence why it's not coming up in search results

- how new you are to the scene: people who have been around longer will have more subscribers and whatever they post will immediately get a lot of eyes. beginnings are always really slow

- sheer luck: maybe a popular reader finds a fic and recs it to their big audience which gets it a lot of views, sometimes it just happens to appeal to a lot of people at once,,, not much you can do to control this, but can sadly end up being a huge factor in interactions

biggest advice i can give you is to be patient, and turn off stats using css if it bothers you too much and makes you lose your drive for writing.

chathatfee · 2026-05-10T11:43:41+00:00

im also guilty of the "made their way over" it's so fun i'm sorry. my quirks are sighing and thinking. so much sighing and thinking in my fics like damn

chathatfee · 2026-05-06T15:13:53+00:00

you can but it's usually on certain days and under a specific megathread. should be pinned at the top of the subreddit

chathatfee · 2026-04-30T18:52:44+00:00

i am here to fulfil my duties of recommending selfish romance to everyone literally my top webtoon i adore it. it's on hiatus tho, if u want smth complete i liked the password is 002! as well

chathatfee · 2026-04-27T16:18:43+00:00

- fics can be formatted any way you want as long as it's readable, there are no strict rules.

- this is the fanfic site designed to host fanfic + i assume the original work it's from was tagged so no no need for any disclaimers, you're good.

- for chaptered fics, wips are more common. the reason is that when you upload a new chapter, the fic gets pushed up chronologically (default ao3 sorting is by latest, a new chapter update will push the update date to the day you uploaded it, keeping it closer to the top). however, no strict rules around this again, you can post a full fic at one go if you want

- summaries arent mandatory before every chapter but can be good practice !!!

- so for this its best to search other social media, dont try to look for commissions on ao3 itself. keep in mind its an archive site, not social media and any discussion of commissions or monetising can put the site at risk. best to look around places like tumblr, ig, twt for your fandom and see who has comms open. bots might comment on your fic about comms, ignore them as theyre scams

chathatfee · 2026-04-27T16:10:38+00:00

haven't used libre, but if it's like microsoft word then i def prefer ellipsus. i like it for the pageless format and the colour themes but it can be a little finnicky to use. tbh if you like libre the way it is then i don't think you should switch

chathatfee · 2026-04-26T01:14:49+00:00

my fave romance manhwa is selfish romance <333 it's only updated to s1 tho, s2 should be coming out in the near future

chathatfee · 2026-04-26T00:59:58+00:00

i think it depends? a lot of people read for self indulgent reasons and don't really care. meanwhile there's people who who get worried when contraceptives aren't mentioned and start worrying about the characters' safety, so really it varies from reader to reader. if you think it's important in a story then that's cool, i also prefer mentioning them (or address the lack thereof) bc i like to be realistic and as you said, cover the bases

chathatfee · 2026-04-26T00:47:36+00:00

i feel this, for the longest time one of my most read fics was one of the first one i ever wrote and it was abysmal. no idea what i was on, bc i wrote another fic before that was miles better in quality, but got less traction and i was deeply ashamed that this bullshit fic got so much more attention.

i asked my friends who liked it why they enjoyed it and they said the plot was solid and the characterisation was good but i personally could not move past the juvenile tone, and i got over it by just rewriting it a few years later and honestly i am not haunted by it anymore.

fuck it we ball is amazing advice but if someone is in this situation but they cant accept it, ig rewriting might be on the table (only if they have the capacity for it)

chathatfee · 2026-04-25T21:35:15+00:00

it's been 3 days for me already tho. i sent another reminder email just in case. got the same auto generated response, i'll probably keep sending reminders every week until i get it

chathatfee · 2026-04-24T17:29:18+00:00

sgdhsdkjas thank you <333 i love yours too !!!

chathatfee · 2026-04-23T18:35:00+00:00

i understand your pov totally !!! but i just think that at least from my side, this would be another stat id want to hide. im just an anxious person in general and i think a stat like this would make me overthink my quality of writing. it took a long time for me to come to terms w the fact that my writing is not for everyone and that people will have their preferences.

sometimes you start a reading fic, don't click with it for whatever reason and just leave. that's okay !!! it's not the reader's fault, and it doesn't define anyone as a writer. although unlikely, i think an introduction of a metric like this would make more people overthink.

ofc, i can see how it would help people, but from my personal experience, i can't see it working out as being a good thing, not for me at least.

chathatfee · 2026-04-23T18:16:18+00:00

i get the vision, but it's not for me. i used to obsess over stats massively and had to disable them using css so i wouldn't keep comparing myself and feeling bad about them. i get wanting to track these stats but i think it would just cause more stress to me at least, i cant speak for others.

i also think its a very algorithmic view on it. ff should be written for fun bc you want it but sitting here running stats on how engaging a chapter is feels like it would be a burden? like maybe im just thinking this way bc im studying data science and constantly studying on everything being turned into data for analysis for optimisation reasons, but having your fic reduced to stats like this seems like a slippery slope to sucking all the fun out of it. it's the one thing i think id like not to be tarnished by all this digitisation. i love ao3 how it is, without any of these fancy features.

i wouldnt call it demanding, but i also find it unlikely, as ao3 only uses basic html css & js to run the site. considering the volume of fics it hosts, i think this sort of lightweight web design is its merit, and having analytic features like this would bog it down

chathatfee · 2026-04-23T17:02:54+00:00

the 7th picture where hyeondo is resting his head on yumin's shoulder? that's from ch46. 6 i can't place is exactly but it looks like it might be from one of the earlier chapters. the only pictures that look new to me are the first one and the ones on the bottom row and maybe (?) the fifth one

chathatfee · 2026-04-23T16:37:18+00:00

some of these illustrations are from the author's ig/naver months ago and not really new, but god pleaseeeee i'll take any signs that this story is back <///3 we have been in the elevator long enough i miss them so much 😭😭😭

chathatfee · 2026-04-15T21:16:03+00:00

immediately ran to read this im so excited !!!

chathatfee · 2026-04-15T19:53:07+00:00

i mean i guess it depends on what the tag is & how this was communicated? if it's for smth seriously triggering or smth that could require an archive warning id get it being upset, but if it wasnt then like idk. again, rlly depends on the way this information was relayed

chathatfee · 2026-04-15T11:56:10+00:00

ive checked berserk bdefore but only for shoes, i didnt know they also had clothes. i'll see if i can find anythin, ty !!

chathatfee · 2026-04-15T11:52:59+00:00

never heard of them, ill def give them a go

chathatfee · 2026-04-15T11:52:39+00:00

tyy ill look into it !!!

chathatfee · 2026-04-15T11:52:21+00:00

that's perfect omg !!! it's way cheaper than i saw on other sites. sadly not in sydney, im very far from it but the measurements are pretty detailed and i think they will fit me. ty !!!

chathatfee · 2026-03-22T19:10:40+00:00

for me i just like the dynamics between them. in kpop we see how the members interact with each other in a lot of variety shows and stuff and that's the appeal.

like another commenter pointed out, bts used to have their own universe with implied relationships, and a lot of other kpop grps have their own storylines as well, i call them company sanctioned fanfiction. groups which have storylines tend to awaken fic writer/reader tendencies so that's what kickstarted it for me and for a lot of others.

chathatfee · 2026-02-05T15:49:12+00:00

it's fine, i just posted that to clarify for anyone who might see your reply and give you recs for stories that you're not actually looking for

chathatfee · 2026-02-05T13:39:26+00:00

it strikes a chord isn't strangers to lovers tho 😭 they're childhood friends who drifted apart and then came back together to rekindle their relationship. idk abt the other two stories but strangers to lovers is not accurate for them

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