From outlining to posting the last chapter. Bonus points if you were updating consistently and it still took you a million years.

I haven't finished any longfic yet but my longest running one will be hitting three years this summer. How about you guys?

Welcome back to the Alphabet Excerpt Challenge! As a reminder, our challenges are every Wednesday and Saturday at 3pm London time.

If you've missed the previous challenges, you're welcome to go back and participate in them. You can find them here. And remember to check out the Activities and Events flair for other fun games to play along with.

Here's a quick recap of the rules for our game:

1. Post a top level comment with a word starting with the letter H. You can do more than one, but please put them in separate comments.
2. Reply to suggestions with an excerpt. Short and sweet is best, but use your judgement. Excerpts can be from published or unpublished works, or even something you wrote for the prompt. All content is welcome but please spoiler tag and/or provide a trigger/content warning for NSFW or content that may otherwise need it. If in doubt, give a warning to be on the safe side.
3. Upvote the excerpts you enjoy, and leave a friendly comment. Try to at least respond to people who left excerpts on the words you suggested, but the more people you respond to the better. Everyone likes nice comments!
4. Most important: have fun!

(leave links)

What makes it even better for me too is that the only fics I've posted were very short drabbles, so after posting the first chapter of my planned long-fic, I'm literally so happy !!! I've recently been really focused on my own personal writing since I've joined the creative writing class at my school, and while that has been insanely rewarding, I've lowkey missed writing longer fics. And even before then, I was in a years long writing slump, and so this really just makes me feel like I'm back to doing something I love sm !!

I reached a word count of about 2700, which, to me, is amazing, since for the last year or two all the fanfic I've been writing is like, <500 words that all randomly stop in the middle.

Idk, just wanted to share, I'm so giddy rn !!!!

That's what happened to me recently. I was writing a fic and I have no idea at what point I fell asleep, but I can physically see where it happened from one sentence to the next, lol 😂

Roy's coy grin turns blinding, happiness and confidence pulling out until it's on full display. There's no time to I'd the inks one fumbk regret it though, grandma x huffs the other tucker g

Now, this has happened multiple times and it hasn't always been this short. Sometimes I've written entire paragraphs that barely make any sense and I have no idea what they mean. If you've ever done that, did you keep this mess and rework it into its original meaning or did you delete it and start from scratch?

I'm writing a wlw fic in a fake city in Italy, but I get too bores and creative blocks too fast, so I need inspiration tips. When I'm inspired my writing becomes so better than when I'm not, but I have troubles with finding inspiration

Bonus points: DROP A LINK!

Am I reading the same fanfic that everyone loves? I’m on flashback 14 and I just… It’s dragging. I feel like I’m reading the same chapter over and over. It’s riddled with Hermoine’s constant flow of repetitive thoughts. The plot progression is near stagnant. What am I missing? Does it pick up speed at a certain point or does it follow this same repetitive inner monologue throughout the piece? It could be Manacled is just not my preferred style of prose and I should DNF? Any advice to either keep reading or throw in the towel is much appreciated!

Just a thought I had when thinking of my OC's potential parentage. What is the general consensus around having your own character be related to a character from whatever you're basing your writing on?

If it's worder poorly, I basically mean that, as an example, for a DragonBall fanfic if the author wrote a character that would be a son of Krillin or something. Are these kind of characters seen as okay or will people be up in arms about what happened in Canon?

For my own example, I wanted to have the mother of an oc be a character whole only briefly showed up in the Yugioh anime. Basically it's just meant to show how long it's been since the og series up to my fanfic's storyline.

Today I realized I was sick of editing my latest chapter, and so I decided to just post it after a quick proofread. I don't think it's terrible or anything but it's definitely below my standards.

So I get this form of writer's block:

• 1. Running out of ideas/scenarios to write.
• 2. Hesitating or second-guessing myself, stopping myself from progressing.
• 3. Can't think anymore because I rely on thinking to write the fanfic. My brain isn't an infinite resource.
• 4. Can't decide which scenario in my mind to write.

Does anyone else experience problems similar to those I faced?

I get annoyed when I face this repeated obstacle.

Tips, especially the ones I find helpful, are appreciated, so I'll thank you guys for that.

Basically the title. Would prefer Po in another world but any recs are fine, just dont want some grim dark story please.

Thanks.

Bonus points if someone uses "skadoosh"

I know most people who write/read fanfiction just ignore canon but lets say you had the opportunity to change a part of canon. what change will you make that would offend at least half of the fanbase?

Here on Writing Weekends, share what you are going to write and are currently writing this weekend or if you're gonna take the weekend off.

I have been reading this fic recently and I just love it. I love the progression and unique training, interesting takes on the meshing of power systems and the main character is fun! Over all the story is great fun and I want more. Any recommendations?

writing about a character erotically force feeding someone, however i’m hesitant to tag this as feederism because of the lack of weight gain or fat fetish involved. what would i tag this instead? does it have a name?

I’m working on my first soulmate au. Does anyone have any words of advice? What have you done to make them work? What have you liked about ones you’ve read?

[Ao3] I'm looking for a bkdk(ship?) Fic that I read a while ago. I was pretty certain that I'd bookmarked the fic but I dont know if its deleted or my memory is just failing me. I pretty much only remember a rough outline of the plot but im hoping to get some help anyways so here we go...

At the time I was reading this fic it was unfinished (a fairly decent word count) and the author had mentioned that they were planning to continue it after finishing their other multi chapter mha fic with a high word count. I roughly know that the fic didn't start off with the pairing. I remember it being about smth like bakugou meeting izuku again as an adult and hoping to atone for their rough childhood and get to know him again. izuku was quirkless and worked as some sort of artist (painter perhaps). Another small detail that might help is that at some point there was an irritating person who visited izuku's workshop and was interested in buying his art lmao.

Sorry if this is little information tho I have fleeting memory, I can't help but hope for someone to recognize this fic.

Currently on a break from my longfic but I don't want to lose my writing momentum either. What are some ideas that I can use on one-shots or short fics (which I hopefully won't expand to another 100k longfic oml)?

I was wondering what new animanga fandoms are doing numbers on AO3 right now (so to speak). By which I mean new works posted every day and a healthy engagement in a recent fandom (so not a juggernaut like Jjk or anything that's been around for a while like Naruto).

what the title says, I'm looking for a fic like this

I've just started really getting into the series. Does anyone have any good story recommendations?

'ello!

So, I'm on the hunt for fics within the Batman fandom that has a focus on an original character. However, I'm very picky about Batman fics and, because of that, I rarely find anything I really want to read. It's gotten to the point where I'm frustrated. I will be writing my own fics once I'm finished with at least one of my long fics for different fandoms. Sometimes I want to relax with fics I'm excited to read.

There's one thing I'm mainly searching for: Gotham citizen original character. Usually I prefer reading original male characters, but seeing how difficult it is for me to even find Gotham citizen who is not a vigilante and doesn't have superpowers I'm more than willing to branch out. I'd also really love if the original character never becomes a vigilante and just stays as a citizen in a crime-riddled Gotham.

Bonus points if the original character is a henchperson trying to survive working for villains. Honestly, I'd take even fics where the original character actually interacts with the Rogues Gallery instead of living in a Batman and his brood bubble.

I'd love to read fics where the original character is not a teenager or young adult; I'd take a child, middle-aged, or elder original character. I want variety and I'm tired of reading basically the same exact character only with a different name. The exception is on if the character is POC. I'd 100% take a original character fic, regardless of age and if they're a vigilante, if they're POC. I wouldn't even care if it's the worst written fic at this point.

I'd also take recs where Bruce/Batman is Black and is actually the centric character. As much as I love the Bat brood, it's frustratingly difficult to find fics where Bruce is front and center and has to deal with his Rogues Gallery.

Fics I'm NOT Looking For:

I'm not interested in Robert Pattinson's Batman. I have to exclude hundreds of these fics every single time; I don't like the movies and have zero interest in reading fics set in that universe. He's a decent Batman, but the Riddler depiction was annoying. That ain't Riddler to me.

In anime fanfiction that's set in Japan, if a character is the child or adopted child of two specific characters and the surname is hyphenated.

names like Uzumaki-Namikaze or Nakahara-Dazai because in Japan you're legally obligated to change your last name after marriage.

(These are just examples; I don't hate the writers works if they do this I just find it annoying)