Emerald Eyes Writes

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yeah yeah influencers are bad and the culture around them is terrible but let me be clear. if i could get paid to take pictures of me traveling to beautiful places all over the world i would 1000% sell out in a minute

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Anonymous asked: How can I be more patient about writing? Whenever I finish a chapter and have edited it for typos, I want to post IMMEDIATELY, but I'd love to be one of those people who writes the whole story and takes time to edit the whole thing, once I know where it's going. Instead I post as I write, on an irregular schedule, and I have no idea where my fics are going besides the loose end-goal. Advice? Thanks!

thewickling:

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I also write and post immediately with perhaps a pause to reread and see if there are any typos or anything missing, so I’m afraid I can’t really help you, anon. I’d also love to be a person who can plan ahead and write a full fic before posting but that’s just not how I work. 

Can anyone else help me and anon out? Please? 😆

I trained myself to become a person who writes the whole fic before posting by doing the following.

I supplemented the need for instant-validation/posting by posting updates with excerpts from the draft.

Also talking about your fic with a friend can help quell the posting urge.

I intentionally write in ways that make me think of the fic as a draft that needs to be edited later. If the work needs several arounds of polishing before it is postable, I am less likely to go well I just need to proofread and then post. So stuff like:

• The bracket writing method where when you get stuck you write brackets with what you need a word, food porn scene, character name, I don’t know but I need a placeholder until I know, etc. and then continue writing instead of looking the detail up or forcing yourself to write something that isn’t working for you.
• I’ll abbreviate names in fandoms where the names or titles are hard to remember or follow because there are so many people.
• I’ll write more exposition than I would prefer. Although, that is more due to what I needed to write get my brain warmed up to write what I needed for the scene I don’t delete any of it. I tell myself I’ll edit it shorter later.
• I used to have in big text “Don’t you dare post to this”. I don’t have that anymore but the reminder did help.

I avoid editing as I write. There’s a few reasons for this. One it slows writing my draft down. Two if a section feels polished I am more likely to want to just post it. Three if I know there’s a ton of edits I would need to make a post I feel like waiting and doing them at once is a better choice.

I also to stop myself from re-reading my fic because it would make me want to editi. I have as a heading a variant of “Save Point just fucking writing”. Every time I open my document, I automatically use the outline feature to jump to that heading. I can’t edit if I can’t see what I wrote before.

I do think having an outline makes the whole process of writing an entire work out and editing later a bit less daunting but it isn’t necessary.

I remind myself that a lot of my favorite lines, ideas, details, etc in my writing appeared after I edited the fic and not even during my first or second edit.

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A comment on having the patience to write a whole work before posting. I am very impatient and every time I am writing I stare at the fic, urging it to already be finished.

I do a lot of silly things to finish the fic first. I pretend it’s a challenge, I act as if the idea is haunting me (it does sometimes but I bemoan it as if the fic is bothering me), I try to rile myself up because spite makes writing more easy. You do not know how many times I’ve opened a wip saying, “I am fucking finishing you” only to add about 1-3k and find that oh no this fic is going to be longer than I realized.

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one of my favorite tropes is when a character is talking in the foreground and something happens in the background that directly contradicts what they’re saying

foreground: character is talking about how they pride themselves on being a good parent

background: character’s 3 year old son starts a car and speeds off

Originally posted by mansplainedmarxist

also

This will never get old.

Originally posted by chiekuchiki

Kinda works

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Anonymous asked: (Fic rating anon 1/2)I was wondering about the AO3 teen rating for a fic. I thought I understood the AO3 rating system really well - I've been using AO3 for three years now and I've posted multiple fics. But the teen rating confuses me. I don't know what draws the line between G, T, and M. I used to use T for fics that had minor violence, curse words, or said 'Fuck' a few times in what might have other wise been a G fic. But now I've seen how other authors rate their fics and

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(Fic rating anon 2/2) I guess I’m just not so sure? I’ve seen sex fics rated T before, & I’ve seen fics rated G where people say fuck multiple times, or G rated fics that feature heavy make-out sessions that I would have rated T. I’ve gone through AO3’s FAQ on ratings multiple times now & I can’t find where it covers this. I don’t want to offend my readers by mis-rating my fics. I guess I was just hoping for a guide on how to rate fic on AO3? And what do I do if I think someone mis-rated a fic?

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I’ve always rated things with the same system you outlined as using yourself. The examples you give sound like mis-rating to me. 

To get more information about Ratings (or Warnings or anything else in the Archive interface), click on the ? icon next to the word:

That will open up a pop up window where you’ll find descriptions of what each Rating means. The decision of what rating to use is always up to the author’s discretion, but that’s the Archive’s guidance. 

As for what to do if someone mis-rates a fic? I suggest talking to them and seeing if they’d consider changing the rating. If you decide to submit a Policy & Abuse report, according to the Terms of Service:

In response to a complaint, the Policy & Abuse team may decide that a “general” or “teen” rating is misleading. In such cases, the creator may be required to change the rating. If the creator declines or fails to respond, the team may hide the work, set the rating at “not rated,” or take any other appropriate action, but it will not add any other rating.

I wouldn’t use that as your first option, though. There is a lot of “may” and “might” in there for a reason. The TOS also states, “As a rule, the creator controls the rating.“

[For readers who don’t have AO3 accounts, I’ll copy/paste the rating information explained in the ? pop up under the cut.]

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I dislike the “teen rating” (and argued against it when the early TOS team was holding discussions), and I don’t use it for my fic at all. Everything is either General, Mature, or Explicit. 

“This  content may be inappropriate for audiences under 13″ is meaningless, because people under 13 are not supposed to be using AO3 at all. 

I’m not going to try to guess the reader’s maturity level based on how many years they’ve lived. I want content-based ratings that aren’t based on the reader’s identity. Ratings should say what’s in the fic, not who the acceptable readers are. For me, I use these concepts:

[G]eneral is suitable for anyone - to me, that means no extreme or likely offensive content.

[M]ature includes mature themes. That means swear words, intense relationship dynamics, characters getting badly hurt or dying. This means I’d put the entire Harry Potter series as [M]. 

[E]xplicit includes graphic sex, violence, or other intense content that is likely to be intense enough for the reader that it can easily be traumatic, depending on their background. 

I am, of course, vastly outnumbered by people who like to use a [T]een rating. Shrug. I’m not going to figure out what most people think is suitable for teens, and the standards I used for my own teens are worthless - by the time they were 14, I wasn’t limiting their access to fanfic at all. 

Hold on hold on.

People under 13 are not supposed to be creating accounts on AO3. This is to conform with COPPA and equivalent laws, which put heaving restrictions on knowingly gathering data on people aged 13 or younger.

But AO3 doesn’t collect data on people. The only place they run into COPPA in any way are with things like “there are spaces to upload personal information in your user profile” and possibly “gathering a reading history list, which is collecting usage information”.

But that says NOTHING about just “using” AO3, in a way that is reading fics hosted there and searching for fics. People under thirteen are WELCOME to that.

OTW even basically directly states that by omission in the ToS FAQ:

“Age Policy
Why are children under the age of 13 not permitted to have an account or upload Content?
…”

That’s “… to have an account or upload Content”. Not “to read Content”. There’s NOTHING that says they aren’t welcome to read fics.

The teen rating is helpful to me because there is a big gap between general audiences and mature content and I think you’d put yourself between a rock and a hard place trying to figure out which one works best because you’ve decided t for teen is an arbitrary rating. I mean G rated stuff is like…squeaky clean and then you got M stuff which is like…swearing and sex and drugs and violence. That’s a pretty big, glaring difference. You could argue that perhaps ratings should be solely focused on content and not age appropriateness but in the meantime it’s a viable way to rate things and certainly better than nothing.

Also, I think it’s naive for anyone to think kids 13 and younger don’t know about Ao3 or how to access it. I started reading fanfic when I was 10-11.

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illuminosity:

team ‘enemies to lovers’ or team ‘friends to lovers’?

enemies to friends to lovers you fool you absolute buffoon

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