The Bigger The Issue, The Smaller You Write. Remember That. You Dont Write About The Horrors Of War.

“The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.”

— Richard Price (via redqueenofbookland)

Prompt-based fandom events are when you really learn everyone’s colors like you’ll find the people who take the prompt “death” and come up with some smarmy ship-art of character A and character B walking over dead leaves while wearing scarves and drinking hot cider and then you’ll find the people who take the prompt “sunshine” and write how a bright glint of sunshine reflected off the barrel of a gun is the absolute last thing character A sees before taking a bullet to the chest

you can lead a content creator to water but you sure as fuck can’t make him drink

and the saga continues @rogueity

Hi! I'd just like to know your opinion: How do you know when something is considered slow burn? Like how many words? I feel like the word length defining fics is very subjective because I'm a writer who generally CANNOT write less than 10k but I don't feel like that's long at all, despite some people saying it is. So let's say my characters don't acknowledge their feelings till 15k words, do I have to tag it as slow burn? Is it different for fics where romance is the plot of the story?

That’s a question I’ll turn over to the readers. I tend to tag with UST (unresolved sexual tension) and RST (resolved sexual tension) rather than slow burn in my fics. Because even if they don’t do the do, they sure do think about it a lot :)

Lol one time I saw someone refer to Ao3 as AOOO and for some reason that makes me laugh a little even to the day.

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