Why can’t I finish anything I write? I have so many ideas and I’ve started plenty of fics in the past few months but finished NONE OF THEM it’s like the moment I get past the first few paragraphs my motivation gets zapped out of my body. Is this just writers block or something else?

Quick edit: I do have an adhd diagnosis sorry I forgot to mention that 😭. HOWEVER I am medicated and it works to help me get motivated enough to do school work and do work but for some reason when I comes to doing things I consider to be my fun hobbies I can bring myself to do it

The closest feeling I can relate to it is like relearning to ride a bicycle after years of not doing it. You're likely going to fall, fail to break at the right moment, get scrapes and scratches, but if you're just going to stop there, you're never going to successfully learn it.

Writing after a hiatus just feels so tiresome. It surprises me how much "thinking" is actually required compared to other things like reading where, of course thinking is also a given, but you're mostly consuming and storing the information inside your head. The action is mostly passive. But with writing, it's you who has to retrieve what you've already known and apply the damn thing into a story. If there's something you don't know, then you either hand-wave it or research the stuff—which often then causes me to sidetrack and get distracted.

Along with that, I recently had the terrible reminder of how much effort it takes to write a hundred words, let alone thousands. Then of course, after that process comes the editing where your few handful of words could easily be reduced back to zero. And then there's also probably a writer's (or perhaps any other creative's) worst enemy: their inner critic and desire to have every little thing sound "perfect".

It's frustrating and nearly tiresome. The silver lining though is that I am enjoying the process of relearning. I just hope that I can push through it without being too weighed down by the expectations of my own self and the imaginary audience of critics.

I'm trying to write a character having a very emotionally vulnerable moment.

Are there any other self-protective gestures that might work?

Thanks to anyone who can help!

I've seen some comments/posts about how people lose interest and get bored once the main characters get together in a slow burn, which I haven't really experienced myself before, so if you're one of those people can you explain what causes that? I don't mean it in a judgemental way, I'm more so trying to find out WHY so I can try and avoid boring my own readers lol since I've also seen people say that it's a writing issue.

Dont care what its about, if its ships or whatnot. What I want, however, is the insanity of the average fandom about whatever theyre writing about—either smth real (like people writing about MCU Spiderman and hen getting hot flame wars and debates post-Far From Home events) or smth fictitious for either us to in-universe, show-within-a-show (like Luz Noceda writing for The Good Witch Azura and getting the AO3 curse inflicted upon her)

Some fandoms I could think of that can have this applied are Marvel, DC, Miraculous Ladybug, Danny Phantom, and any media with visible characters with secret identities, but Ill take whatever fandom!

I'm looking for Ghost/Soap fanfics. I'm down to read most anything, but I'd particularly love fics that explore Ghost being claustrophobic from his time in the grave (or just angst in general). I love a good panic attack fanfic. I'd rather no AU, but if it's really good I'll read it anyway :)) thank you in advanced <3

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Whether you’re a writer, reader, what red flags do you have?

Hi, idk where to post this so if I can’t ask this question here lmk and I will delete this. I’m looking for fics based on the Twitch streamer Vanillamace and I can’t seem to find none anywhere. Maybe I’m over looking it or maybe there truly isn’t any but I wanted to do this as my last hope.

Please and thank you!

I recently started reading and writing fanfics about an anime, and I get really bored sometimes because I don't have anyone to talk to about this fics, laugh about them (I read fluffy, funny fics, I love romcoms sometimes, or angst) or crashing out in the plost twists.

I had left comments to authors in their fics so they know I enjoyed theirs works, but it's not like that ends in a friendship, just a short connection moment between author and reader.

I'm little of a overthinker, and idk if this is the right flag, just wanted to know, English is not my first language, sorry if it was a question that doesn't go here, thank you!

Hi all! Have you written about/experienced long-distance relationship to know what might go wrong? Like what might the couple fight about?

Have been writing this fic where the most recent chapter is the two mc's reuniting after a year of separation and communication only by letters. The tricky part is my fic is staged in early 19th century so I can't use a lot of the tropes that only work in a modern setting. They were together for a few days before they had to be separated again.

I kind of want them to clash a bit during that meeting but am stuck here thinking of a good cause of conflict. Wondering how you all might approach it?

I really liked their dynamic when I watched the film and I was just wondering if there was anything similar in other media

I've been talking with a friend about doing a social media story, but neither of us wants to dedicate a chat or new accounts on Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc to this. We thought about mock up apps, but most of the ones I've encountered are for a single person. Is there one of those we can use, where we can get the interface of multiple apps but both of us can add text?

okay guys i wrote a fanfiction and received comments that made my heart warm and made me feel super happy. i went back to read them today, and noticed two of them had been deleted and that's got me a bit anxious. have you ever experienced/done something similar and if so, what would be your reason? I guess it just broke my heart a little bit, I did pour a lot of effort and love into that piece (it sounds corny i know!!) Did they regret the comment, read the fic again and though it was bad?

edit: maybe for clarification, it wasn't on ao3 but tumblr and i know for sure that at least one wasn't a bot?

ok so basically there was a really nostlagic fic I liked that I read around 2022-2023 it was called "Guilty Pleasures" on ao3 I'm not sure the author or how popular it was but it was about atsushi getting akutagawa to join the mafia and how it affected dazai.. it centered around dazai specifically dazai and chuuya im pretty sure it was 1-2 chaps

PLEASE help me find it i will owe u my soul 👀👀

hi everyone, I'm trying to find a fic where during the fight with kaguya the naruto reality is destroyed and everyone is sent to the dc universe

I know that most, if not all, of the fic is from dc characters perspectives, it starts with a few people falling from the sky around the world, then we find out they're shinobi and that the only reason they survived is because they were very strong. I remember that there was a scene with kiba and maybe tim? itachi is found in the arctic with frostbite. lots of the ninjas end up in their own town and one of the dc characters (maybe batman?) visits them. it might also be a small crossover with marvel because I remember there being a city floating in the sky and one of the shinobi there isn't scared because she'd been through the kyuubi attack. I think there's also a scene with kakashi and some other guy about his mask

if anyone has this fic or knows the name please let me know!! I really want to read it again

I'm new writing stories, and my first story I made is original but I don't wanna do just that. I wanna do fanfics too but the problem I have with that is I never get a character's personality correct to the canon lore, like what do you guys do, I'm always happy to learn.

As with everything, there are limits. Epithets every sentence rather than a simple ‘he,’ ‘she,’ ‘they,’ or their name, can be distracting, but it seems as though the use in any amount is condemned to high hell by basically everyone 😭

I don’t get it, some of the best fics I’ve ever read use them pretty often, and I didn’t even notice them at all until I found out about the discourse and hate towards them. I noticed that old drafts and one-shots I wrote myself years ago use them every now and then, but reading those back, I don’t find it cringe or annoying to see them. Perhaps the peer pressure got to me, because I don’t use them anymore, but I’m not put off by writers who do.

Yeah, there are some examples that are a little weird—like ‘the pinkette’ is pretty funny. But in general, I dont think referring to a character as ‘older,’ or ‘taller’ deserves the hate it gets

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Hi I’m not sure if this is the right subreddit to be asking in but I recently read a fanfic that had one character ask “color?” And the other responds with “green” multiple times in that fanfic. Does anyone have any idea what that means? Is it a reference to something?

(Also not sure what to tag this so I hope this works)

Like, i don't care if a fic has "Character X / Character Y" in the story, but i want to read some action and adventure fics, not "Story is just a love story and is only about these two characters falling in love"