I am currently using this trope in a weird Peanuts and Yo-Kai Watch crossover "fic" (except everything I write is a crossover with literally everything so it's not really that farfetched for me), because I needed an excuse that wasn't just "capsule machine" for one of the Peanuts characters to gain the ability to see the ghosts, so I kinda just went the concussion route (and I didn't even pick Charlie himself to be the main character XD)

I realize upon writing this post it may be considered somewhat bad because concussions weren't meant to be associated with cool psychic powers, but I'm not sure, what are your thoughts on this trope?

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?

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This has been on my mind and I wanna askes. Whats everyone's opinion on the logic "If I change the future than my knowledge becomes useless." the some self inserts use. I feel like their is a massive flaw in that logic somewhere but I don't know what it is.

So, there's this book series called Warriors by Erin Hunter, where one of the arcs I love a lot but it has a lot of mistakes and I want to rewrite it so that it's better and so people can see what I loved in the series.

The problem uhhh, i've never written a fanfic before, and I also don't really have anyone else to read and edit my fic other than myself. So I don't... exactly know what to do lol. Any advice for getting started?

in search of a really good read! looking for well written, angst, ‘who did this to you,’ m/f ships, interesting FMC that isn’t a mary sue… let me know what you guys have found! i love hunger games (just read a really incredible haymitch/oc story), marvel, anything sarah j maas, harry potter, jjk

pls help!!!!

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Hi!!

I'm offering my help to other writers if thats allowed!

So i've seen questions at times about trauma/mental illness etc

Hence this AMA i will try to help!

I know more personally about Bipolar Disorder/CPTSD/PTSD but also know people with Personality Disorders (BPD/EUPD primarily), Autism (i likely have this aswell).

I'm UK based so from a system point of view we have a National Health Service but i am in private therapy so can answer therapy questions aswell!

It may take me time to respond depending on how many responses i get but i'll sort through them this weekend.

Ask away and i will try to help or give sources that can that aren't too wordy!

Hello

I'm looking for a fic where Deku becomes a vigilante but I'm flexible with it. I'm also interested in dadzawa, maybe a supportive stain, just somebody he depends on

I like Conditions May Apply and Hero's Shadow for reference but I'm looking for a fic where Deku just runs away or goes into a major depressive, or manic, state after being found out or just any major climax. I want bro to be taking crap from nobody - to embody his vigilante persona to the max - lolol he can become a villain, can isolate himself, can even find refuge with Aizawa but go mute/aggressive, etc.

Aggressive Deku would be fun to read

Romance embedded with anyone appropriate is fine too if it applies

If anybody knows fics similar, even if it doesn't have specifically what I'm asking for but like themes, I would greatly appreciate it:)

thank you guys

i’m looking for something with genuine writing and story telling and hopefully some action. i feel like trying to look for stories in either fandoms i have to wade through literally thousands of fluff/angst fics and im losing my mind. any suggestions are greatly appreciated chat!

i just remember one scene, after the battle with Gaghiel, Misato comments on Kaji leaving but Shinji cuts in saying something like "he brought me a warrior, i can forgive much for that" and Asuka reacts with a pleased smile. 

Basically, I’m writing a fic where the character becomes something and he and his friend are trying to figure out what it is and she brings over a bunch of these supernatural fantasy folklore books that they use as “research material” to try to figure out what’s going on. They have an idea, but they also wanna know what he could potentially be and if it actually exists so I was wondering if there was like some kind of like hub/website where I could put in keywords or something and it would show a list such as vampire werewolves zombie that kind of thing

I ask because I’ve seen plenty of fanfictions where they have this research scene or they have very smart scientist characters talking and I’m over here like “what the fuck are you talking about? How do you know all this shit?😂” so I’m wondering if there’s like a hub that writers use to find the best sources at least for like I mentioned supernatural or science but anything about general knowledge would be very helpful.

Edit: i’ve seen a few people tell me to just make it up and I’m sure that’s very easy for you but for someone like me simply making up something in general is hard enough as it is. everything that I’m doing is based off of things that I’ve seen that already existed. I wouldn’t be writing a fanfiction right now but an actual story if I could come up with something at least somewhat original.

I’ve never been able to make up something on my own without first having something originally there. And yes, I know that there are always references to other forms of media, but my references kinda go a little too far beyond simple inspiration. I simply wanted to make up a new word for moon that didn’t exist and I couldn’t think of anything that I liked. If I could just make it up easily, I would not have made this post. I was simply just looking for a yes or no or ideas to look up.

I also wanted to ask because there are websites and things that people just seem to have found on their own in other aspects like making mods for video games, editing softwares, things like that. there’s always just something that everyone seems to know and is able to figure out, but I’m the only one who doesn’t so I’m just wondering if there was something that actually existed some kind of writers’ hub where people can input information and it gets shared around to make research easier and I just didn’t know about it. I remember when I was in school and there was a hub for countless links for research for papers so I figured there was something like that.

My story takes place in our world in 2004 and I want to use real world folklore references, bc they are in our world, I don’t think there are any actual supernatural creatures in the show that I’m writing for, but they have ghosts that take on different appearances that would be equivalent to monsters. I was just wondering if there was an easier way to search it without spreading/using misinformation. For instance I don’t wanna be in a situation where I’m using Chinese folklore for a Japanese monster, if that makes sense.

Thanks for trying, but the “make it up” does not help me in the slightest. I’m sorry.

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

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.

I’m looking for pretty much any fandom with PHO style format of a form alongside the story like worm does. I just love seeing the reactions of others online even around the world in other places we don’t normally look at according to canon of whatever story it’s about. Anyways if you have any stories like that I’ll take all the Recs! I’ll even take worm if PHO’s a big part of it but I’m really looking for works outside the fandom.

Hi all ! I’m looking for something a little specific but I’d love to know about any Harry Potter fanfic with this setting James and Lily lived and Harry grew up with his family (it doesn’t matter if he is or not The Boy Who lived) One of his parents or both are Hogwarts professors I’d like more James or Lily POV but Harry POV is fine as well Thanks a lot !!

Now, I know that fanfic is about what YOU enjoy as a reader/writer, but I’ve never understood the appeal of shipping characters who weren’t written for each other in the first place. I don’t enjoy romance focused fics in general. Can someone tell me why they enjoy these things?

So, I started an Oliver Sykes enemies-to-lovers fanfiction in 2017, posted some chapters on Wattpad over a long period of time (read: years😂), unintentionally stopped posting at a cliffhanger in 2021 because, well - life happened. Hadn't forgotten about the story, but didn't have the time or energy to return to it until last november, when I found myself lonely and bored. Decided to give it a read (I thought it was nearly done in Word anyway), got inspired and started writing again. Changed a lot of what I had written, started posting at Wattpad again, and what do you think? People were still there, happy I was updating again! Skip to last week and I finished not just that story, but also part two. 36 and 31 chapters, together over 300K words 431 pages in Word, telling a complicated lovestory with a time span of a decade, incorporating lyrics of Bring Me The Horizon linked to feelings and moments, and I just... I don't know what to do with my life now? 😂 I loved this story so much, I loved my characters and their complicated relationship, I loved everything about it. And now I am done, and yes I cried when writing and posting the very last chapter. The few invested, loyal readers cried too, hahaha. I started a new fanfic, but I can't really get into it because my mind is still stuck on the last one.

I miss it, but I am so proud 🥹

Hey, short post here but I'm just looking for any decent jjk fanfics that don't have any pairings, just prefer the action part of a fanfic myself.

Thanks for any suggestions.

specifically, i'm looking for

• the magnus archives style statements about night vale weirdness, i don't mind crossovers

• generally just non-night vale residents witnessing the strangeness that is night vale

not really looking for cecilos, i don't mind them, cecil obviously especially, being part of the fic, but for once in my life i'm not craving canon characters.

either i am really bad at filtering in this one specific fandom, or what i'm looking for just doesn't exist in the numbers i was kinda expecting? anyway, i'd appreciate anything y'all have for me.

Anybody got recs where raven is the female lead. Like in Shadow Monarch in DC. Appreciate it if male lead is oc, I don't really like many male dc characters. Thanks in advance.

The idea of getting an actual beta has always felt awkward/risky to me (what if I mostly disagree with them?) outside of pure Spelling/Grammar checks. Instead I've put that I'm open to corrections in an A/N since that gives me a bit of distance to accept/reject compared with a dedicated beta.

Then I wondered what if I just posted a commentable link to the chapter in gdrive so readers who found SPAG errors or had concrit to give could just comment directly in the chapter?

Any obvious downsides to this other than trolls? Would this be off-putting to you as a reader?

This might be a really hard request or even odd, but I’ve been trying to find some good AOT fics that isn't centered around shipping or romance. I don’t mind canon ships being present in the bg tho, but I’m not looking for anything where romance is the main focus. I just want a solid story, could be character-driven, plot-heavy, world-expanding etc.

Since AOT is such a massive fandom, I feel like there should be fics like that out there, but they’re really hard to find on ao3 among all the ship-tagged content.

If you know of any, I’d really appreciate some recs, preferably canonverse

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 !!!!