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I Am Super Conflicted Over What To With My Fics On AO3 Right Now, As The Writing AI Drama Goes On. Its
I am super conflicted over what to with my fics on AO3 right now, as the writing AI drama goes on. It’s nothing visual art creators haven’t had to deal with, and there are still plenty of people boldly placing it around.
My main conflict is, lots of authors I respect and look up to are locking down fics. On the other hand, I have a prolific side life as an anonymous poster. How can I lock my work, while still wishing to maintain my side life? I understand why AO3 hasn’t allowed people to post as Anonymous Users while remaining logged in, fandom trolls get nasty these days, and a number of good authors have been chased out by Purity Policing in spite of properly tagged fics and troll harassment, because manners are dying a slow and ignominious death. But man, I really don’t want to have to create a separate email account just to maintain my side life and the connections I’ve made there.
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So helpful! So inspiring! Thanking OP and Sir Terry Pratchett!
@wuxiaphoenix
I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So I reduced my own daily word goal. I went down from 1,000 to 200. With that 800-word wall taken down, I’ve been writing more. “I won’t get on tumblr/watch TV/draw/read until I hit my word goal” used to be something I said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn’t cough up four pages in one sitting, I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave up. Now it’s something I say because I just have to finish this scene, just have to round out this conversation, can’t stop now, because I’m enjoying myself, I’m having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn’t been true of my original works since middle school.
And sometimes I think, “Well, two hundred is technically less than four hundred.” And I have to stop myself, because - I am writing half as much as Terry Pratchett. Terry fucking Pratchett, who not only published regularly up until his death, but published books that were consistently good.
And this has also been an immense help as a writer with ADHD, because I don’t feel bad when I take a break from writing - two hundred words works up quick, after all. If I take a break at 150, I have a whole day to write 50 more words, and I’ve rarely written less than 200 words and not felt the need to keep writing because I need to tie up a loose end anyways.
Yes, sometimes, I do not produce a single thing worth keeping in those two hundred words. But it’s much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all.

realized i could use my seasonal depression lamp as a light box so that I can give traditional animation a try. check out this guy