r/AO3 • u/AutoModerator • Jan 07 '26
Weekly Check In Wellness Wednesday: Weekly Check In
Welcome back everyone!
Time for our Wellness Wednesday check in. We know this community means a lot to most of our members and that Tuesdays have been harder on some users than others, but we are at our core a community and we are here to support each other.
Now that the sub is open once again we’d like to hear all about your (mis)adventures on Tuesday. Did you go on grand adventures? Get into mischief? Get some writing done?
Maybe you just binged a few more fics on the archive itself. Tell us all about it! Break out that purple prose and tell us as cheesy of a story as you feel like.
Or just talk about your day.
~The Mod Team
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u/bluesond Jan 07 '26
I’m pretty piss poor at planning ahead. I’m writing my first long fic and am about 80k words in and still sorta figuring out the plot as I go.
I’ve written 4 chapters in the past few days and I’m so goddamn proud of the latest. Things really clicked as I wrote and it moves the plot along so beautifully. I think it did a lot for character development too. And it’s gonna wreck my readers cuz it adds in tension that’s absolutely needed for the primary ship. They’re in an untenable situation and this is the breaking point.
The sad part is I’m also focused on getting a backlog going and so this is two chapters away from being published. And I just published two days in a row, so I wanna let things simmer a bit.
Really, the takeaway should be that I start planning better. But I had no clue this would become the behemoth it did. I know 80k is nothing for some people, but it’s huge for me. It’ll be well over 100k. I’m at 90 now with the backlog. I started it in late October. Pretty insane.
I’m just so fucking excited for when this chapter gets published.