stan if he went to emo conversion therapy
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anyway sorry for hating... engagement as a motivator isn't bad in itself (i also like engagement! it is normal to like and want that!) but if that's all you care about and you don't want to write at all anymore when you don't get it then i think we all need to get real.
if i can soapbox for just one second more because this has me absolutely heated. "write for you"/"i write for me" is not inherently disingenuous. yes it can be. but when your rebuttal to that is "why post it then?" the whole conversation falls apart very quickly.
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to me (and i would argue most people who say this), posting it IS the reward. it IS the sign of a complete project, and it wasn't something that was posted to "connect with a target audience". you lose me the second you use marketing terms for fanfiction.
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so yeah tldr i do not fucking care get out of my face don't act like you're inviting constructive discourse and then start calling people disingenuous just because you think you know everything about everyone's motivations behind posting on the internet
comments and kudos are not a reward they're literally just a bonus to the creative process and the second you stop seeing them as a reward you deserve is the second your life becomes beautiful i can't stand some of yall oh my god
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...i just saw something that made all of those things i qrted make sense. lmao. yall are not like me at all.
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lmfao.
This is good advice not just for writing but for life. You’re right. But I stiiiill think “write for yourself” is disingenuous bc if that were the case why go to the trouble of posting?
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write because you like doing it and post it if you want. why are we getting holier than thou about people posting fics they wrote for their own enjoyment. other people liking stuff you posted is nice but (TO ME) actually doesn't matter.
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"why post it" because i FELT LIKE IT. i didn't write it TO POST IT, i posted it because I WROTE IT. i'm not sitting here typing away like "this is gonna do numbers". i literally post it so i can look at it and go "hehe i posted it" and reread the ao3 page. can we get real.
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i write for me so this doesn't actually matter
Jun 13
This is dumb and vulnerable and I may regret asking and delete, but here goes anyway: fic writers, how do you deal with the heartbreak of having a project you were very excited about absolutely flopping? I had a bunch more planned & written. I can’t bring myself to open the doc
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why... would i care... what somebody else thinks..... when i wrote it for my own enjoyment.........
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ppl in the replies shitting on this mentality but i literally post my shit just so i can twirl my hair and kick my feet rereading it. other people liking it too is nice but it's not FOR other people. i wrote it because i like to write and i like my stories and that is enough.
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stella *ੈ✩‧₊˚ retweeted
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deja al gato todo besuqueado cuando se estresa
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