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1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

2: What scene did you first put down?

3: What's your favorite line of narration?

4: What's your favorite line of dialogue?

5: What part was hardest to write?

6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?

7: Where did the title come from?

8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?

11: What do you like best about this fic?

12: What do you like least about this fic?

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

Honestly, this is why I just don't post multichapter fics until I've completed (that means written, proofread, edited, proofread, rewritten, and proofread again) at least 20 chapters. I honestly am not sure why other people don't do the same. It's YOUR story- feedback from the audience is secondary at best, and should not influence you too greatly if you have a clear vision of what to write. I wrote the five chapter prologue as well as 15 chapters of the main fic before I even created an account. I was done with my first fic and working on my second before I had posted half the chapters. Even now, I've just posted chapter 8 of my current fic and am writing chapter 22.

Why do I make such a backlog of chapters? Because shit happens. You get sick, you get fired, you have no idea what to write (I have been working on ch22 for more than a month because I have no idea where I'm going with it). When you build up a fanbase, I honestly think they deserve a little consistancy. People who are actual fans of your work will understand if shit happens and you need a hiatus (especially if you actually TELL them that's what's happening so they don't think you've abandoned the story they've become invested in). Think about how upset and disappointed you get when a game or movie you were really excited for is delayed.

Back when I used to read a lot of fanfics, my favorite author would tell her loyal fanbase whenever there was going to be a delay, so we would know why there was no update (she also responded to longtime reviewers like myself in every chapter, but that's a different subject).

TL;DR- if you want a work of yours to be popular, then prepare for people who treat it like something popular- hungry for/demanding more. This is FAN FICTION. You are not on a schedual, people. You don't have to have chapters on your editor's desk every week. Write a sizeable chunk of your story, a few chapters at least, and then... wait. Don't post it online as soon as you hit save. Just wait a few days, maybe a week. Reread it, see if you still like it (chances are you won't). Do your rewrites and editing BEFORE you hit submit. Why are you all in such a rush? If your answer is "I have to post before the fandom moves on!", then you're clearly just in it for the reviews and really don't care what people are saying just as long as that number gets bigger.

Writing is a process that often undergoes heavy edits… that includes responding to feedback. 

OTP drawing challenge day 5-(in bed)

"Wishing you would call my name, ‘cause only you can light the flame…" (if you haven’t heard The Flame by Keiko Lee, then go listen to it cuz it’s prime sex music)

Hey you never said what they had to be doing in bed~ I thought I’d try my hand at some porn, though it’s pretty soft core. I can’t bring myself to draw anything more lewd than this (though I can certainly try to write it…). Is this NSFW? It doesn't feel that way to me, but lemme know if it is and I'll tag it.

They’re both covered in terrible scars. I wrote a one shot a million years ago to help me picture what The Road Not Trekked's tone would be about that, where Gunther always insisted they have sex with the lights off, but since Nerr has dragon vision and can see in the dark, she assumes it’s because he thinks she’s ugly and disfigured. Nope, he just doesn’t want to see himself because he thinks HE’S ugly and disfigured. It pretty much ended with them both being like, “wtf are you smoking; you’re perfect!”

Doing this, I can kinda understand why hentai and sexy things in general look as bad as they do. When you start drawing risqué poses, at first, it looks great. But then you start turning the picture, and notice all the gross anatomical inaccuracies, so you have to erase and elongate and erase and elongate until it's actually proportional. And that's really hard to do if you're drawing shit one handed. I guess what I'm saying is... if you wanna draw porn, don't draw porn of things you masturbate to.

Fuck yes, I am ALL about getting aliens drunk (hoping alcohol isn't toxic to them...). Kudos, japan!

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