Drafts of comment responses I will never send

ao3commentoftheday:

whenas-in-silks:

aka what I really mean when I say, “thank you, I’m so glad you liked it! <3,” an incomplete list

  • Marry me.
  • This makes me want to claw my own face off and eat it, but like, in a good way.
  • That “heart-eyes motherfucker” gif, but projected simultaneously onto every billboard in Times Square
  • You’re clearly delusional but I’m into it.
  • As we speak a tattoo artist is inking your words onto my lower back so they will be a part of me forever. The pain is excruciating.
  • not to be weird but i would crawl through boiling pitch for you
  • Let’s move to Reno and rob a casino together.

  • That is so sweet that I just had three successive panic attacks over the idea
    of trying to fulfill your hypothetical expectations.

  • *sobbing into the microphone as the tuesday night karaoke audience looks on in horror and consternation* AND I WOULD WALK FIVE HUNDRED MILES AND I WOULD WAL
  • Through your kind remarks, I have ascended to a higher plane of existence; lacking corporeal form I will sadly be unable to finish the story in this medium but will attempt to beam the remaining plot directly into your dreams through a series of dire portents symbologists will take decades to fully decipher
  • u ever want someone to help u dispose of a body lmk i got 20 gallons of industrial strength drain cleaner and nothing left to lose

#accurate

cheshire-cassiel:

salt-of-the-ao3:

ritshoe:

Kudos to fanfiction writers for writing about all the trauma and emotional and mental turmoil that the original content creators dont acknowledge when putting characters through hell

This has evolved to one of fanfiction’s major assets in my eyes. To every author that cares enough about the characters in their stories to examine trauma, but also the slow, tedious processes of healing and recovery: your stories mean so much to me and other persons with mental health problems. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I got a comment today that had this quote in it: “[It’s] not something people usually understand. About how much of a curse it can feel sometimes, that you survive. I’ve tried explaining it to my mom once, but she just got really upset and wouldn’t understand. But you. Um. You do. So I want to say I’m sorry, because understanding that can’t be a good place of mind to be, you know. And I also wanted to say thank you” and I legit started bawling because I’ve never told anyone, but it ended up in my story, and no one’s acknowledged it until then and just…thank you to the readers who see us

salt-of-the-ao3:

An author I love: i’m so sorry for not updating, please accept my apologies, life has been busy at the moment and i just didn’t have time to write, so sorry for making you wait-

Me, gently cupping their face in my hands: My friend. My dude. I’m the kind of idiot who waits years for the new season of a show. Who gets excited about the new part of a book series that hasn’t been published in a decade. Do you seriously think i’m not gonna be there cheering for you when you come back? That my support is dependent on you regularly publishing updates? That you owe me anything? No no no no no. I’ll love you whatever you chose to do. So go on having fun and living your life you gorgeous being ❤

heywriters:

brynwrites:

But Bryn, why don’t you want to hear negative feedback regarding your published novel? 

Isn’t feedback important for a writer’s growth?

I want to preface: this isn’t a response to any of my reviewers in any way. It’s just something I didn’t think about until I got around to publishing, and I imagine many other writers and readers are the same. 

So, why don’t most published authors bother trying to learn from their negative reviews?

Publishing a professional quality book takes a long time. For traditional publishing, it can be years after the writer picks up an agent. Self publishing often requires the writer to go through all the things the traditional publish would do, only they do it all on their own, so that too can take a long time. 

This often means that writers will have written one, even two or three novels between the time they write the rough draft of their first novel and the time they publish it. (I wrote 100k words, ran two beta round, and edited a novella, just between the time I formatted OBP for print and actually put it on amazon.)

In this time period, a writer who’s actively striving to grow can learn a lot

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a lot they would have liked to implement into the book they’re publishing, but can’t.  

Often, reading those negative reviews doesn’t actually teach them anything they didn’t already learn themselves months ago. It just makes them feel like they let readers down by publishing too soon.

And the catch is: this never changes. A truly good writer never stops learning and growing and improving, and never stops believing that, hey, if they’d just rewritten that book one more time, maybe it wouldn’t have those issues they only learned how to spot two months after it went to the proofreader. 

The negative aspects of reviews aren’t meant for the writer

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they’re meant for potential readers. So don’t fret if your author friends don’t want to read that awesome constructive criticism you put together for their published works. 

(Or maybe they will, especially if its a serially released work, and that’s awesome too!)

So this came at a perfect time…

ironinkpen:

forget slow burn romance, give me slow burn found family. give me enemies to friends to siblings. tired, weary old mentors learning to live again for their plucky young apprentices. heroes sharing apartments after world saving adventures because they’re so used to living with each other. dramatic “oh shit” moments where one gets kidnapped and the other realizes “god, that’s my kid.” i want to sit and watch in agony for thirty chapters while two idiots slowly adopt each other, someone get on it

a-tanja-blog:

“I’m forced to admit that thoughts of you have begun to… distract me.” – sketchy Malavai Quinn –  I love him! Sorry… not sorry.^^

I always wonder why so many SW-players are mad about Quinn’s betrayal. Well… for me there were a lot of things to read between the lines (during this heartbreaking quest) “It’s not about you or me. It’s about the Empire.” My SW is a patriot like Quinn (they both are some kind of Lawful Evil) so she could understand his actions. For all female SWs (who want to romance Quinn): I highly recommend this post —> Thoughts on the Quinncident. I agree with almost all points. He made (as a follower) the biggest character development in SWTOR and to be honest – Quinn is much more than just a “smiling betrayer”!