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Talk about your creative process.

First I need to find an idea for a fanfic, and there are two options
* I need to read this fic. No one does it. Or they do it, but by reading them I realize we have completely different headcanons. Oh I need to write mine
* Writing prompts ! Exchange fic ! Gifts !
It has changes with times. Now it's more of the second one. It was initially more of the first one. I think I'm reading less fanfics (and more novels, but I don't write novels). It's still a fix. I remember writing bad smut for someone I was courting as a young women, ha ha, and it might have been my second fic ever.

I'm mostly writing short one-shots, so the next part it thinking up themes, ideal, lines, lines of dialogues, all that motivates me to write the fic. Sometimes some new themes or narrative parallels appear by themselves as i'm writing. It's good.

I'm so bad with long form. So many things I have started and never finished.

The last line is very important to me, it needs to be good!

I'm so bad at titles. half the time, my strategy for finding a title is crying to me beta or another friend that I can't find one, and they give me a half-hearted attemps, and ti's still better than all I could have found in hours. So I'm taking it shamelessly.

Date: 2026-01-16 05:00 pm (UTC)
flamingsword: Sun on snowy conifers (Default)
From: [personal profile] flamingsword
I take random titles that kind-of sort-of go along with my few tiny fics. And I totally agree that sometimes you just gotta write your headcanon for a character yourself.

Date: 2026-01-16 09:38 pm (UTC)
flamingsword: Sun on snowy conifers (Default)
From: [personal profile] flamingsword
Sometimes lines of poems, sometimes puns about things going on in the fic, one was just straight-up a three word summary of the fic in the vaguest prose. But any of the things you mentioned also work! People are not grading you on the titles, AO3 isn’t school.

*shudders in remembered horror*

Date: 2026-01-16 10:53 pm (UTC)
greetingsfrommaars: ichihara yuuko from the manga xxxholic (Default)
From: [personal profile] greetingsfrommaars
agreed, a good last line can really linger in the mind! i try to come up with fic titles ahead of deadlines so i'm not scrambling for one right before posting, but it doesn't always work out lol.

Date: 2026-01-17 09:56 am (UTC)
faitsu: (party kaixa)
From: [personal profile] faitsu
Making up the title in a panic is a part of writin'.

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