my single sexiest piece of advice for new fic writers: write what You want to read. because even if you never post or finish writing a story, you will always be your first reader. make yourself happy. put food on that table. go ham with the subtle siken references. Spark Your Joy

a plot outline can be a series of scenes you think would be really hot in a specific au setting. the motivation for writing 90k of plot can be wanting two really hot characters to kiss somewhere around the 50k mark. not satisfied? make them kiss more. fuckin do it. your house now

if you're not writing for yourself, who are you writing for? some dead white dude's idea of 'plot'? stories can be plot driven, character driven, horny driven- as long as something's driving, you're going to get somewhere. and the motion is the point- the storytelling, the story

who gives a fuck if you end up driving your story to antarctica? who cares if no one's been to antactica before? are you on jupiter? did your heist au become a high school musical ripoff? congratulations, you have charted new land. you're doing something new. that's wonderful

write for yourself. write the most indulgent thing you can think of and be a cheesy bitch who believes that love can save the universe. doesn't matter if it's been said before, doesn't matter if it hasn't. we haven't heard this story in your voice yet! YOU have something special

writers are tenacious motherfuckers. this tenacity shows itself in how we build our stories around the things we want to see. we build that shit! which is why i firmly believe it is Fine to write a political drama with the initial motivation of 'i want them to fuck in scene 49'

because that One Scene you'd eat ASS to write is 30 floors above you, and you're gonna have to build a ladder to get there anyway, and in the process of building that ladder, you are going to Write, and you are going to Speak, and your plot will reveal itself. you will be fine

this thread brought to you by 'i tried to write hinata getting the shit beat out of him for fun and then went to sleep and accidentally planned out the 90,000 words of plot that would have to precede said shit beating and now i have a novel on my hands'. fuck yeah i love writing

let me end this with a quote from dog dog dog

you are your first and only line of defense against the universe. you are the professor and the guy trying to get a master's. you know how to make them land, so throw those damn punches. punch the shit out of yourself. self care baby