corycatte:

GSC remains my favorites

marlynnofmany:

madkiska:

tumblingoverstars:

daitheflu-mx:

theleakypen:

iamwestiec:

theleakypen:

Hi folks, I know some of you like to use Goodreads to track all your reading and don’t want to distinguish between books and fanfiction.

I am, however, begging you not to do this. It is extremely jarring and disconcerting to be a fic author and find your works somewhere in the wild where you did not personally put them. Fics are not books, are not published in the same way as books, and exist in a precarious legal space.

Please don’t attempt to elide the separation that exists between fandom and the world of official publishing.

Well this is much nicer than how I said it 🤣

[ID: tweet from @westiectweets — “PSA: Don’t Fucking Add Fic to Goodreads What the Fuck”]

update to add:

if you are a fic author and you find your fic on Goodreads, you can get it removed!

Here’s how:

1. First, you gotta go to Goodreads support Contact Us page. Fill out the form as follows:
2. What can we help you with? – Book records: adding or editing
3. What device were you using? – this answer doesn’t matter
4. Are you reaching out as a publisher, author, neither, or both? – Author
5. What does your inquiry relate to? fanfiction recorded as book
6. In the main body of the question, include the link(s) to the Goodreads record(s) for your fic(s)
7. Hit submit!
8. Someone should contact you pretty fast; I got a reply within a couple hours, even though it was a Sunday afternoon. They wanted me to confirm that it was a fanfic and asked me to provide proof of authorship which was kinda weird to answer but I was like “uhhh my tumblr is the same handle as my ao3 does that count?” and that seemed to go over just fine.
9. Once they say they’ve deleted the records it should no longer be searchable although for whatever reason the direct links apparently still work. That’s Amazon for ya I guess.

I hope this helps some of my fellow fic authors!

iridescentmemoria:

lucyaudley:

betweentimeand42:

catastrophe-jones:

roane72:

iamstartraveller776:

Best trick I ever picked up. Seriously.

I have also learned this is great for [PICK A COOL NAME FOR A SHIP] and [LOOK UP THE FACTS ABOUT OXYGEN LEVELS] and [WHAT’S THE WORD] and [DOUBLECHECK CHARACTER’S EYE COLOR] and ALL KINDS OF THINGS.

Anything that isn’t critical in the moment, and could be filled in later while I’m currently trying to burn through writing pages that will be lost if I don’t get them out right now? Brackets.

This is seriously the best advice, and it really helps put it into perspective that the first draft is just that- a draft. There’s no reason to agonize over a particularly tricky bit of writing when you could just leave it in brackets and skip to the good parts, the parts you’ve visualized. I also use brackets for [fact-check this], [use a stronger verb], [is this in character?] and other notes as I write, just so I don’t forget what I want to work on when I go back and edit. 

This works for academic writing too. If you know where you’re going just leave yourself notes to fill in later. I do this all the time,

I’ve been unable to break through the wall of stuff i have to research in the latest chapter of my fic. I think this will help!

etrianodysseyobsession-hd:

gaynfl:

gaynfl:

cracker barrel…. has fallen

CRACKER BARREL HAS. FALLEN!!!!!!!!!!

This is a huge deal! Now it’ll only be the other patrons who openly hate me!

johnadamsbignaturals:

so this happened.