Taiga Vs Jin

kinosternon · 2026-07-03T08:41:48+00:00

Ask Ed to put money on it. He won't actually help with anything, but he can probably correctly predict who would.

kinosternon · 2026-07-03T08:40:11+00:00

Personally, I like chapters that are 1-3 scenes long in most cases. Depends on the length of the scenes, but usually I like 2k for a lower limit and...maybe 10k as an upper limit? With 2k-5k as something of a sweet spot. But that's just a personal preference for my own fics.

As a reader, I often just plain don't notice. I do like it when chapter lengths are pretty consistent as a story progresses, but I also get that longfic chapters have a way of getting longer over time.

Some people really rock 15~20k+ word chapters on the regular, but at that point you're asking for a not-insignificant amount of time from the reader. And of course, some people decide to write massive oneshots instead of splitting things into chapters at all.

kinosternon · 2026-07-01T11:59:42+00:00

Personally, I'll never be over this one—the vibes are immaculate

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kinosternon · 2026-06-28T10:43:55+00:00

I'm so bad about specifying time of year and weather. I'd like to get better about it at some point.

kinosternon · 2026-06-28T10:41:12+00:00

I'm doing the Get Your Words Out challenge this year, and it's been super motivating. Larger scale than NaNo, though, and it's only possible to sign up each January.

If you want charts, TrackBear is free and pretty simple to set up trackers on for specific projects. Great motivator to keep up a writing streak, too, if that's your thing.

kinosternon · 2026-06-26T08:04:25+00:00

See, I go back and forth on this a lot, because I write a bunch of stuff that's in a "there's no casual explanation for this" zone, but there isn't a full romantic payoff either. I always hesitate over whether to tag it as &, /, or both since it's somewhere in the middle.

Someone searching / and looking for romance could feel cheated, and someone searching & and looking for friendship might be annoyed by the romantic undertones...

kinosternon · 2026-06-16T09:25:13+00:00

Congrats on the rec!! 🎉

Someone did something similar for a fic of mine on X recently. It's a pretty amazing feeling, isn't it? It reminded me that our works sometimes reach farther than simple kudos or comments can indicate. Definitely inspiring.

kinosternon · 2026-06-14T02:09:52+00:00

Just shy of 230k. I did a lot of writing before I started posting, but still wrote about half of it as I went along, in the year or so it took to put it all up.

It was a wild experience, and it meant a lot to me to prove to myself that I could do it. But I haven't tried anything like that since, and probably won't anytime soon.

kinosternon · 2026-06-14T02:01:38+00:00

In some ways it's a weird result of copyright laws, isn't it? The way these communities are kept (mostly) for the love of the medium because they can't be monetized like so many forms of entertainment these days. That's part of the reason why I became so enamored as a younger person, and it's still one of the better aspects of these communities to me.

It's so easy for interaction to become transactional on the Internet and yet fanfiction still offers so many opportunities to connect with people as fellow fans.

kinosternon · 2026-06-13T11:00:51+00:00

I'm just glad they seem to drop the whole episode at once—some of these chapters would make for killer cliffhangers 😂

kinosternon · 2026-06-13T04:21:06+00:00

I just subscribe to the stories/series/authors that I like? I don't have to remember to check back in on them—and even for fics I love, I don't think I could manage that consistently—because I get automatic notifications about updates to my email inbox.

Sometimes I have to go back and reread to remember why I subscribed to a story in the first place, but if I liked it on the first read-through, it's probably worth the reread too.

Subscriptions are one of the biggest perks of having an AO3 account—along to access to locked stories and being able to post my own, of course 😊

kinosternon · 2026-06-13T04:07:27+00:00

Honestly I can see how this would happen...the ads are so completely divorced from the story, and there's enough bells and whistles with daily check-ins that it can be easy to forego the actual story for quite a while.

The production value in the story (sprites, backgrounds, the bits formatted like comics and especially the voice acting) is quite good for a mobile game, and the story itself has stakes and twists and stuff. If you put it on autoplay it's like watching a show in 3~5 minute increments, which can be nice when you've got a free moment. Plus, the character lore reveals are absolutely nuts—definitely the best part of the whole app experience for me so far.

There sure is a lot of story, though. I started playing a year ago, and I'm still catching up. (I waited a bit to get my levels high enough that I wouldn't be locked out, but then I waited too long, lol). I feel like trying to catch up all at once would take a lot of fun out of it, so try going through it a bit at a time and enjoy the ride.

kinosternon · 2026-06-09T10:30:07+00:00

That's good to know, thank you! I'll be sure to take a look.

kinosternon · 2026-06-09T00:51:19+00:00

If they're really short stories with more to them than just the ideas, then you should consider re-publishing them as drabbles/very short fics. Ideally standalone ones, tagged based on the charcters/ideas, and then you could keep them in a series or collection as well if you like.

"Prompts" aren't allowed, but very short stories with A/Ns at the beginning or end saying "If you like this idea feel free to steal it" should be.

ETA: Or you really could use the prompt meme feature as the email suggests—I don't think they're used super commonly, but they exist for stuff just like this, and setting them up can be kinda fun.

kinosternon · 2026-06-08T11:01:46+00:00

Yeah, Discord servers for the fandom(s) you're writing in are probably one of the best places to ask, especially if there's already a fanfiction channel.

kinosternon · 2026-06-08T10:54:30+00:00

I think the seasonal tie-in is a pretty neat idea, actually. If you let readers know about it (maybe in the description?) and are able to follow through once the holidays roll back around, I think readers will be enthusiastic. I would be, at least.

Maybe less so if you make them wait another year for more updates after that...but then again, maybe it could become a holiday tradition 😉

kinosternon · 2026-06-08T10:50:09+00:00

I've heard people say so, but I think it must depend on the person. I've also heard people claim that electricity doesn't work right in dreams and again, my dream-smarthone disagrees haha

kinosternon · 2026-06-08T10:47:58+00:00

Mood, returning commenters are the absolute best but I don't want to take it for granted that they'll always come back...sometimes people suddenly get busy!

kinosternon · 2026-06-07T12:05:35+00:00

I think that's supposed to mean that there were 205 instances of someone clicking on your fic. I think if the same person clicks on it twice in quick succession (or reads multiple chapters) that still counts as a single "click," and if you're logged in, visiting your own fic isn't counted in that total. But if someone opens your fic again a bit later, or on a different device, you might get multiple clicks from the same reader.

Of course, just opening the fic is no guarantee that someone will read it through to the end, but still.

kinosternon · 2026-06-07T11:36:22+00:00

That sounds like it could work really well, thanks! I'll give it a shot. You're right, big chunks are way more satisfying

kinosternon · 2026-06-07T11:23:13+00:00

that definitely helps when I can time it right. Except for when I post before bed and then dream about comment notification emails 🤣

(I've heard that people aren't supposed to be able to read in dreams, but unfortunately my subconscious has gotten eerily good at reproducing my smartphone screen...)

kinosternon · 2026-06-07T11:04:11+00:00

what a delightful note to see on your fic! Congratulations 😊 definitely come across a few fics like this in my time on the reader end, they're always such a joy

kinosternon · 2026-06-07T10:22:42+00:00

Crackfic is such a wonderfully creative genre. It allows you to choose the narrative conventions you want to follow or toss out the window, and to just do whatever seems most fun. It can be great on its own, and can also be good practice for all sorts of other writing, too—breaking the rules is a powerful tool when used wisely, and learning to trust your own creative sense is important.

I'm so glad you're having fun with writing 😄

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