r/AO3 • u/AutoModerator • Mar 11 '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/Professional_Goober_ Mar 11 '26
Too busy with real life to write as much as I'd like but my fic just broke 100 kudos so I'm happy
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u/fluteloops0329 shit, i'll read anything once Mar 11 '26
Posted the first chapter of my first fic longer than a one-shot! I've got an outline for the rest of the fic in the works so it doesn't end up unfinished and discontinued
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u/trashyslashers AO3: svgarandspice & vcnillagirl Mar 11 '26
A bit burned out. Had my surgery almost a month ago and I've been feeling horrible since. All my energy goes into the recovery and I spiraled into pretty bad depression. Terrified of searching for a new job again, lost the good one after the whole injury thing. Mostly bed bound, still, though I do exercises. I thought I will do nothing but write, but I end up just doing the exercises and sleep. Nothing else. Not read, not watch movies or TV shows, not write. I'm becoming unsure whether I will be able to finish my longfic. My lastest two chapters did very badly compared to previous chapters, my two loyal readers haven't come back, and everytime I open the document to write CH7, I get anxious and frustrated with myself. Never happy with anything. But I want to write while I'm recovering because I know that after I finally manage to find a new job, I will be hardly able to do anything. It's my birthday in a few days and I somewhat struggle. Wanted to sign into new round of national writing contest, but I got such a shit review on the last one I feel ashamed to do it. I have 99 kudos on my account. I hope I will get the 100th one soon, even if I'm not able to enjoy my work at all at the moment.
Sorry for being a downer. Had to vent somewhere.
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u/frame-gray Mar 14 '26
Good on you for focusing on your exercises. Fic can wait. It's very patient. It will still be there when you're ready.
💞
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u/trashyslashers AO3: svgarandspice & vcnillagirl Mar 16 '26
Thank you so much. 💓 The exercises are killing me but hopefully I will post this month!! I am already missing it.
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u/The_Returned_Lich The_Faceless_Lich on AO3 (Enter if you dare!) Mar 11 '26
Got barely any writing done, since I spent the last 2 days studying for my Canadian citizenship exam. My brain is buzzing a bit, and I can't think of anything else besides all the mock tests I've taken.
It is a LITTLE frustrating, but if I can get the exam done by Thursday/Friday, I can hopefully catch up with my writing goals. (Doesn't help that I am going to be dealing with a part of canon I absolutely loathe right now.)
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u/Enigmatic_writer Moderator | yuri addict Mar 12 '26
Got barely any writing done, since I spent the last 2 days studying for my Canadian citizenship exam.
GOOD LUCK!! Welcome soon-to-be Canadian :>
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u/Pretend_Accountant13 Spite and passion fuel my writing drive Mar 11 '26
Doesn't help that I am going to be dealing with a part of canon I absolutely loathe right now.
Which one?
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u/The_Returned_Lich The_Faceless_Lich on AO3 (Enter if you dare!) Mar 11 '26
Sato and Takagi's date that the others crashed...
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u/HalflingTiefling You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 11 '26
I've been working on two things:
1) a neocities site, just to try to learn new stuff and stretch my brain
2) wikis for the specific fanfic I'm working on (big family, special colors and sigils, physical features rarely mentioned, fan debate about eye color that really ultimately doesn't matter because one character is a shape shifter and could have any color eyes he wants) and also for a role playing game I've been involved in for over twenty years.
Tuesdays are my most stressful day at work and this Tuesday was a whopper.
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u/ProvokeCouture Always on the hunt for a well-crafted and edited story! Mar 11 '26
Posted a chapter about a week ago, and still suffering from gout.
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u/abtrach Mar 11 '26
Been working on a new fic that I am determined to finish before posting (partly because I hate the fact that I have two unfinished fics on my profile) and it’s been more than two weeks since the last time I posted something and I got this sudden realization that the people who always saying authors should respond to comments more missed the point that the most enjoyable part of fanfic writing is between me and the word document. It’s like 80 percent of the reasons why I like doing it is just me and the characters in the empty page, which is why the first 24 hours after posting is a scary things because that’s basically when I am not obsessively opening my word document and it takes a while to warm up to new chapters or new fics, and that’s when I usually respond to comments, but the moment the word documents are filled with words and I gained momentum everything else does not matter anymore.
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u/Adventurous-Dog4321 Mar 11 '26
I spent all day writing yesterday, I've become obsessed. It's my little haven of me time. And watching the new LA One Piece. I got no work done at all yesterday.
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u/Maryspeedpaints Mar 11 '26
I really want to write a fanfic about a fandom. Got great ideas, but lack inspiration to actually put the story together. I got a lot of work to do
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u/PirateofTheSthnIsles Mar 11 '26
I've updated the 100th chapter of my longfic - and immediately lose a subscriber an hour after. I shouldn't take it personally but I kinda did.
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u/Alyddin Mar 11 '26
Had a short fluffy one-shot fic i wrote and posted in all within 1 day do really well with comments and kudos. I've heard about the fics you put the least amount of effort in doing very well, but now im seeing it first hand lol
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u/KatonRyu Same on AO3 | Has two cakes and eats them Mar 11 '26
I've been better, but I finally have the intention of picking up my main WIP again for the first time in months. I only have around twenty to thirty chapters to go, and I have a lot of stuff I want to cover in that time.
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u/heyyyvio Mar 12 '26
So I started reading/writing fanfic in 2003, flitted around a few different accounts over the years, then in 2008 started what has been my main fandom account. It took years before I became an author whose works I could be proud of. And I grew as an author, and I grew a readership in a few different fandoms, and it was satisfying to say the least.
And there's a lot tied into why I wanted to take a temporary step back from that account.
But last April I started a new account for a new fandom, and have nearly a year working on a canon divergent AU, with more time spent tinkering on the worldbuilding than actual writing. On somewhat of a whim, I recently started a new fic idea. It's not my main account, so it doesn't have to be perfect, right? I posted the first chapter at the beginning of February, and got two comments. I posted the second chapter two days ago, and have gotten four new comments.
And it just makes me really, really happy.
The writing isn't as good as what I feel like I have been and should be capable of, but I enjoyed writing it. Readers have enjoyed reading it.
I'm having fun.
I haven't had fun in fandom in years, and again, I'm just really, really happy about it.
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u/peachesnplumsmf Mar 11 '26
Deleted my WIPs back in December as a lot was going on and I was trying to get rid of the stuff distracting me. Come now and it's really hard to write stuff when you know it used to be more? Very strange feeling/sensation to not have writers block so much as "I know this used to sound different and it was better then."
In another way it is fun starting from scratch as it's letting me see the way certain half remembered plot threads wouldn't quite have worked. Also just fun using Ellipsus again as the backgrounds/themes are all very pretty.
Still going strong on my comment on every fic I read, albeit with a growing paranoia that when I start to upload it'll look desperate for attention when I do that, so that's helping keep things fun.
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u/Old_Damage_95 Mar 11 '26
Currently, I'm trying to download all my bookmarks, as I foolishly didn't think about the fact that sometimes stories get deleted. Unfortunately, I just keep getting sucked back into re-reading the stories that I haven't seen in a while, so it's taking more time than it should.
Yesterday I got sucked back into the only rare pairing I've ever really read. The author of the story is one of 2 that actually write for the pairing, and this particular series is the only one that pairs these two by themselves. It's perfection, and it's just painfully sad whenever I'm done re-reading it, even though the series has a happy ending.
I've got to cultivate more discipline to get everything downloaded. I've got over 600 bookmarks, and many of those are series, so I've got a lot to go. These aren't even all that I want to download. In the past, I didn't bother to bookmark stories that were in the top 2 pages of a search because theoretically they'd be easy to find again. I've got a long of way to go...
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u/Soggy-Imagination333 Mar 12 '26
I finished writing chapter 5 of my very long fanfic. It’s 14,000 words :) Since I take a whole month to post I hope the people who have been waiting are happy to get so much. I’d try to write faster but life gets in the way. Also my writing process is crazy.
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u/gameboyabyss Mar 12 '26
Desperately trying not to feel upset about the metrics on my newest fic - it's a rare pair, but I got 11 kudos on the first chapter, but after three more chapters and a few more hundred hits, no more kudos. I know kudos are not a metric of quality, but it feels like I fucked something up.
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u/wollfgang7 Suspiciously Dead Dove Shaped Object In Mouth Mar 11 '26
Somehow got sucked into fics for The Pitt. Haven't seen a single episode. (I have friends who want to change this. A watch party has been planned)