Dear longfic writers

ladynorbert:

taki-sensei:

ghislainem70:

artemisastarte:

silsfandomstuff:

wrecked-anon:

sabrecmc:

rederiswrites:

• If you sometimes feel like it was pure, ridiculous hubris that you ever started a story that would take so much work and persistence to finish, I promise you, you’re not alone.
• If you feel like you’ve already been writing forever and the “good bits” are still ages away, you’re not alone.
• If you’ve been stuck for days or weeks or longer because you know what happens later but you don’t know what happens next, you’re not alone.
• If you’re desperate to squeal about your beloved OTP but you feel like you can’t, because spoilers, and it’s driving you nuts, you’re not alone.
• If you feel like you’ll never finish and you’re bound to fuck it up somehow, you’re not alone.
• If you wonder if you’ve sabotaged yourself because who’s going to click through to a 28 chapter WIP, you’re not alone.
• If you feel like you’ve been pouring your life into a single story for ages and will be for ages still and you don’t know why anymore because hardly anyone seems to care, you’re not alone.
• If you can hardly even plan the further-away parts of the story or even think about them because thinking about them reminds you how absurdly far you still have to go and you get massive anxiety, please believe me.  You are not alone.

@angels-are-robots

Dear longfic writers

• I fucking live for your work. Like I love me a little one-shot or a medium-length fic but srsly give me that 100k+ (200k? 300k? yes pls) goodness.
• I am constantly in awe of your ability to stick with your story, to keep your plot moving and your characters’ relationships developing like just damn.
• I don’t judge if your updates are erratic. If you’re worried about too much time passing between updates, just know that I and so many others squeal with joy when we get that subscriber notification in our inboxes.
• There is literally nothing more glorious than watching characters develop through a long-ass fic. Relationships, friendships, character growth? Sometimes after I’ve finished a longfic or I’ve gotten to the last update I’ll go back and reread the first couple chapters just to see how far my babies have come.
• If you stop updating your fic for whatever reason, that’s okay. We as readers are just lucky to have been graced with your story as long as you chose to write it. You’ve been gifting us with time and effort for this long and we appreciate it.
• As someone who has had multiple longfic ideas and either (1) got through two chapters and gave up or (2) was too overwhelmed by how much work it would take to actually write, you are my literal superheroes.
• You are brave and persistent and creative and a gift to fandom, and if you ever need a pep talk I am here to love on you.

Yes. All of this. God bless writers of longfic, you’ve been helping me survive winter for years now.

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Oh my god i needed this

As someone who is so damn wordy that she feels like she’s incapable of nothing but longfic and is in constant fear of not being read, I want to frame this and put it on my wall. Thank you.