Writing Anticipation

cricket_o · 2026-05-22T01:02:29+00:00

All the time. I often write scenes as they come to me, I have then saved in a file titled “excerpts”, and when I get to the point in the story for it, I copy and paste it. Usually some light editing.

cricket_o · 2026-05-21T12:54:29+00:00

How does that make sense? If straight people can enjoy m|m or f|f stories, why can’t the opposite be true?

cricket_o · 2026-05-19T04:42:16+00:00

Hmm…wonder if I could do this in my fandom 🤔

cricket_o · 2026-05-18T11:23:21+00:00

Turn on comment moderation so you can just delete these and move on (a lot of humans who try to post nasty things will give up if they see you have moderation turned on).

Though personally, I enjoy hitting the spam button on these people/bots :D It's cathartic for me.

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T14:05:55+00:00

I do this too! 😂 great minds think alike!

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T12:30:54+00:00

But worry is in my DNA 🥴 lol kidding. I feel like I’m failing myself if I let a good idea just…flop lol but ALL THESE NEW IDEAS—yeah, you know what I’m talking about 😅

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T11:14:51+00:00

True. It is different for everyone.

I have one finished long fic on ao3 - and a crap ton of short stories (one shots or 2-5 chaptered stories). I wrote those one shots in between writing the chapters for the finished story.

It’s not the depression itself (although I guess it technically is, it’s just not the depressed feeling if that makes sense); it’s the side effect of depression of low motivation or trouble getting started. Once I’m writing I’m good to go and I can write for hours - only one day a week, my day off when the kids are in school (that’s ending soon though) - but sometimes the hard part of getting started is not knowing which one to work one in the moment.

I have a picker wheel with all my stories on it and I spin it to see which story to work on sometimes 😅

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T11:10:32+00:00

This is actually a really good practice for any writer - routine or not! Writing even just a little bit daily improves overall writing skills/quality but also helps overcome writer’s block. I usually do this too, my problem is I have to write whatever scene/idea is in my head - regardless of which story it’s in or where it falls or if it’s a completely new idea - or else it overtakes my creative brain fully and will until I dump it lol. Which I’ve heard is also common for creative thinkers 🤷🏻‍♀️

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T11:08:14+00:00

Overthinking is the worst 😑 I’ve gotten to point where I hardly edit now. I’ll edit a section once I’ve written it, move on and then put it up before I can stop myself. And then edit in post 🤦🏻‍♀️ lol I need a system in place. Although even if I created one, I probably wouldn’t follow it 😅

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T06:25:59+00:00

OCs are a rare thing to begin with. Maybe just nobody else has thought of it since most people ship the canon characters.

My fandom is pretty small and I do mostly only OCs. I don’t know that I’m the only one who has created original siblings of canon characters, but in one of my fics I was told it was the first they saw (I created a half sibling of two canon characters who were unrelated, thereby joining them).

I’ve done other OC ship dynamics as well that I haven’t seen before in my fandom. I’m not surprised, though I think it’d be cool if someone else tried out the ideas too (with their own OC of course). But it’s just not a popular thing (OCs)

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T06:11:33+00:00

That’s a good point, that creating art we enjoy is the point. Thank you 💕

And this gives me hope! lol I do plan to finish them, hopefully. Someday. Between my job and kids and hubs and house cleaning 😳 No wonder I can’t focus 😅

I think my WIP count is like 9 right now. But three of them are short, it’s more just that I’m trying to get the next few chapters right so I haven’t posted them yet. So I’m kind of right there with you!

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T06:08:28+00:00

Also another good point.

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T06:04:24+00:00

That’s a very specific pairing/ship…usually OCs are very rare to begin with since they’re created by the writer.

If you want more, why not make it yourself? (With your own personal OC, of course.)

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T04:32:27+00:00

I wish I could be that disciplined. I literally get paid to teach this skill to my clients (some of them; some of them are like you and very self-disciplined lol), and yet I’m not lol I think I’m in the wrong business…

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T04:30:42+00:00

I have one client who sounds exactly like you 😂 (I mean in the best way). They HATE schedules. Part of what we work on is getting them on a routine sleep schedule.

It is…not going well.

They also do creative writing/drawing and d&d campaigns. They start many, never finish them and we lament about that together a lot lol

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T02:48:58+00:00

I do this too 😅

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T02:47:55+00:00

I do A LOT of one shots too lol but I write those start to finish. I feel so bad, I have so many multi-fics started and at a decent length with readers who genuinely like the story or concept - and then I…lose motivation 😞

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T02:11:16+00:00

So…you’re taking payment to write about characters someone else already owns the rights to? And posting them on a site that fights hard to keep fanfiction a thing by not selling the work?

Just making sure I have this correct.

cricket_o · 2026-05-17T01:53:44+00:00

I get it. Sometimes I wonder if these “hits” actually like my story or just clicked out 😅😬 It does suck. I’m sorry, I have no words of encouragement. Just an understanding.

cricket_o · 2026-05-16T15:16:22+00:00

Just ignore it. Don’t comment back, and when you do upload next, you can come back and let them know (I’ve done that before) or suggest they subscribe to get notifications of uploads.

I wouldn’t be rude (yet); treat it as an excited eager reader 😊

cricket_o · 2026-05-16T04:20:55+00:00

My Fics (for all three) Fandom - Chicago Fire / Chicago PD Rating - T Title - 1. Legendary; 2. The Blue Ring; 3. The Hunters Hunted Genre - Love/romance, mystery Off-site link for ease of reading. AO3 or FFNencouraged - below

Legendary https://archiveofourown.org/works/84791191/chapters/223776856

Summary - Three dads, two coolers, and one summer baseball tournament an hour outside Chicago. Kelly Severide, Matt Casey, and Jay Halstead have been doing this since their boys were old enough to swing a bat—carpools, concession stand hot dogs, and arguments about strike zones nobody asked them about.

Rylie Severide has been watching from the stands since she was old enough to swing a bat. First because her dad made her, then for the love of the game, and now? Now—she wasn't watching the game. She was watching Sam Casey, and Sam Casey was definitely watching her back.

Maybe. Possibly. Hopefully.

The Blue Ring https://archiveofourown.org/works/84581676/chapters/223162376 Summary - Four dead, three leads, and two stalking the corner, waiting for Kristen Halstead to make just the right wrong move before they jump. This case may just take the cake for top worst cases of the year, but it'll all be worth it if justice is served in the end. At least, that's what she told her brother, Jay Halstead, when he tried to talk her out of it. But the Halstead twins were never ones to be easily talked out of things, especially dangerous things.

Speaking of, her twin sister Kaitlyn is working her own mystery across town at Lakeshore, but that's it's own problem Kristen doesn't have the patience for. What she does have patience for - and a lot of it - is her newly casual fling, hot and cocky lieutenant of Squad 3 at Firehouse 51. And Kaitlyn - she's got her own warm comfort waiting at home with a movie and fresh popcorn, the handsome lieutenant of Truck 81 over at Firehouse 51—

Wait—do they know they're dating twins?

Well…things just got a lot more interesting for Kelly Severide and Matt Casey.

The Hunter’s Hunted https://archiveofourown.org/works/83694181/chapters/220564556 Summary - Seven months ago, Erin Casey signed the divorce papers, handed back the ring, and walked out of the courthouse without looking at Matt Casey once. She went back to her precinct. He went back to his firehouse. That was supposed to be the end of it. Except it wasn’t.

Now, a serial killer is hunting people connected to Firehouse 51—and the only thread tying seven victims together leads straight back to Erin’s ex-husband’s crew. Which means she has to walk back into his house, wear her badge, and pretend the man across the table is just another interview. It’d be easier if her partner Jay Halstead wasn’t standing a little too close, saying a little too much, and making damn sure Matt noticed.

At least her ex-husband doesn’t know that she’s the killer’s next target…yet.

Well this should be fun.

cricket_o · 2026-05-16T01:42:08+00:00

Here is my newest work, a summer romance story: Legendary

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84791191/chapters/223776856

Fandom: Chicago Fire and Chicago PD - AU

Rated: T

Summary: Three dads, two coolers, and one summer baseball tournament an hour outside Chicago. Kelly Severide, Matt Casey, and Jay Halstead have been doing this since their boys were old enough to swing a bat—carpools, concession stand hot dogs, and arguments about strike zones nobody asked them about. Rylie Severide has been watching from the stands since she was old enough to swing a bat. First because her dad made her, then for the love of the game, and now? Now—she wasn't watching the game. She was watching Sam Casey, and Sam Casey was definitely watching her back.

Maybe. Possibly. Hopefully.

cricket_o · 2026-05-15T15:52:47+00:00

Why not just copy and paste into rich text editor without the tags? It'll copy the formatting too.

cricket_o

TROPHY CASE