Anonymous asked: Miracle Child is one of the most popular and well-regarded fics on AO3. Do you have any suggestions or advice for a beginning fanfiction writer?
- Write.
- Write more.
- Let people read your writing, even if you aren’t putting your name on it.
- Accept that not everyone is going to like everything you write.
- Figure out where your threshold is between “haters gonna hate” and “I appreciate concrit.”
- Push said threshold one or two notches toward the concrit side.
- Keep writing.
- Write things you aren’t sure you can write.
- (I at one point wrote a short piece for the kink meme in which Dave talked Tavros into brushing his teeth for him.)
- Write things you know you’re good at writing.
- Write drabbles.
- Write chaptered fics.
- Write meta.
- Keep writing.
- Brainstorm.
- Talk to other writers.
- Talk to yourself.
- Talk to your characters.
- Out loud.
- In public.
- Or not.
- That’s cool too.
- Write some more.
- Don’t stop writing.
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