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I want to be able to move my tags around without having to delete a wall of tags and put them all back! when I forget a tag somewhere I would much rather be putting “hurt/comfort” next to “angst with a happy ending” at the top rather than in the middle of tagging “oral sex” and “multiple orgasms” from the later chapters because I realized a bit late that “hurt/comfort” is an accurate tag.
If I had one wish for posting to Ao3 it would be that I could drag my tags around so they could be in a specific and more pleasing order, and I apologize to my readers who are seeing random ass tags sandwiched between two that are clearly related. that is all

What it says on the title.

My record for hiatus between chapters is two years, and a while ago I had a friend suggest I post an ‘update’ chapter to let people know it’s coming... eventually lol

Personally, I think that should be against ToS. I can only imagine the disappointment of my readers when they’ve been waiting patiently, they get the notification for a chapter, and then it’s just me saying ‘sorry this is an update chapter it’s coming!’, an update chapter with zero content is a big middle finger to your readers.

I unsubbed a fic recently that had posted multiple ‘update’ chapters over the months, the most recent one genuinely seemed like they just notified all their subscribers to let them know they watched heated rivalry. I don’t care, your readers don’t care, this is spam.

Does anyone else see this as rude to your readers? I’ve been on both sides as an author against update chapters and a reader against update chapters. If placeholder fics are against ToS, update chapters should be as well. They are both spam that does not contain any fan content.

Just a quick question out of curiosity, basically as a reader does the title affect your interest/how likely you'll read a fic?

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And by 'mid' i mean mediocre, not bad in any way. I love all my fics of course. But then i have a couple that i just *adore* and that i thought were so good and i sooo wanted to share, but unfortunately i didn't get to share with a lot of people because not a lot of people even clicked on them. Ya feel me?

So I've been posting on AO3 for roundabout two months with weekly updates. Recently, I got my first regular visitor who now leaves a comment pretty fast after I upload a new chapter, telling me how much they like what I do and I can't tell you guys how much this actually makes my day and how engaging it is for the further writing process 😭 so dear readers, if you like a work, if you like a premise, if you like characterizations or ideas, please let your authors know 🙏🏻 a simple "this is great, thank you for writing it" or "I enjoyed reading this" will have us authors really kick our feet up in the air with joy!

I've noticed that a lot of the cross over fics that I've seen and liked seem to get just not as much attention from what I've seen. I'm also writing a cross over fanfic so, I'm just curious.

Do people stay away from it because they just don't like seeing two different things together? Or is it because people only know one out of two of the fandom so they just steer away from it because they don't know it. Or just personal taste.

I just kinda wanna know people's thoughts.

Women can write m/m. Men can write f/f. Asexuals can write dirty ass smut. Lesbians and gay men can write m/f. It's all arbitrary anyway. Who give a shit.

At the end of the day it’s fanfiction

"Oh but they don't have an experience of-" I don't have any experience committing murder either but people don’t give a shit if that’s what I write

Edit: no this is not me saying that people should just simply go into things blind. I very heavily believe that if you’re going to write about any sort of topic you put in some degree of research into what you’re writing about no matter what it is.

Alright, short post: I guess I'm an angst writer by heart since I am trying to write a fluff chapter for some time now and it's not coming naturally. I understand you just have to write it from a perspective of "there is no problem of drama this time etc. let your characters just interact in a comfortable way". However.... Fanfic FLUFF authors, what helps you regarding dialogue, friendship fluff etc? Thank you so much!!

Call me cheesy, but I miss those stories when one dude that thought he was straight fall in love with the other guy and spend a few chapters denying it. Where did those go?