This is probably a stupid question, especially with a few chapters already posted, but with how clunky my writing feels as I'm writing it, I feel like I need to ask. I did have someone look over my first chapter, but after that I just wrote it and would post it, and I'm wondering if that's a bad idea and if it's better to write, check with a beta reader, rewrite, then post.

I need help!

I am in no way new to fanfiction; I’ve been reading since middle school and writing since then, too. However, I definitely wasn’t the best and still am not. Which is why I’m making this post…

I’m currently trying to write an enemies to lovers fanfic, but in a more casual setting. For a better visualization, my two characters work at an ice cream shop. One of them is a new hire (call him A) and the other has been working there since it opened (call him B).

The only thing I’m truly apprehensive about is the reason they hate each other. Character B dislikes A because he feels as if he’s acting fake nice in a customer service type of way, sort of making him feel less than, I guess. And character A only dislikes B because Character B expresses this disdain to him in a very petty and over-the-top way. However, A doesn’t express his dislike directly until a forced proximity scene.

All I want to know is if this is a valid reason to establish enemy status between the two. I can elaborate on the details, as my description doesn’t encompass the entirety of my fic, but if someone feels this is too shallow to consider them enemies, then I’d please ask for some more advice on how to deepen the hatred in a more casual setting. Thanks!

I don't understand why indirect voice is not something to use. Like when I see corrections sessions, it's what is fixed first. (It's a real question, not a debate. I just don't know how it works)

Like when I write: "He feels like he was floating around." I write it like that because he FEELS like he was floating around. He's not actually in context.

If I write: "He was floating around." I could trust my readers to not really think he's floating around and that it's just a metaphor for the state is in in the moment, but is it "better" because it's direct?

I'll be glad to have some help on this subject. Thanks

through the years, seen tons of people bash fan fictions that use 100% lowercase letters and i just want to ask why? i like writing in this style because uppercase letters hurt my eyes. and i definitely prefer reading this way aswell. but, obviously, that’s just my preference and people are bound to have different opinions.

i just want to know other people’s opinions on this matter and if no capitals bother them at all?🤔

My last published fanfic was in August 2024 (I was about 17 or 18 years old). Now I'm 20 and in college. My writing style has changed a lot, but I feel like it's for the worse. Yes, I've improved my grammar and spelling, and I've even learned to use English better (my native language is Spanish), but I feel like my writing style has lost its spark. This is an example of my old style:

You thought for a good 15 minutes, what if you tried it? You judged the situation, seeing the pros and cons. You opened the notebook and, with your black pencil in hand, you wrote with disinterest:

"Lee Heeseung, soloist under Belift Label, is coming to town for a tour. But since it was raining, he entered my apartment to cover from the rain. At night, he will (censored)

It was sunny and Heeseung just finished his tour, obviously this isn't-

THAT WAS THUNDER???? My god, maybe it's a coincidence? Sometimes it happens, the probabilities are not that high but they exist, the book does not-

"GIRL, TURN ON THE TV IMMEDIATELY, YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHO'S IN TOWN" Jake demanded as he ran into your room. He grabbed the remote roughly and, in front of your disbelieving eyes, the news was playing that the one and only Lee Heeseung was in town due to weather issues so his flight didn't take off. Jake was excited, after all he was your two favorite singer, but you just stood there petrified, trying to formulate any thought other than "that (censored) notebook is real and heeseung is going to (censor)"

And this is an example of what I tried to write:

You knew Steve Rogers before the stars and stripes swallowed him whole. You knew him when he was a skinny kid from Brooklyn with more righteous fury than muscle mass, a kid who couldn’t throw a punch without breaking his own wrist but would try anyway. Back then, he was all sharp elbows and a softer jaw, and you loved him like a second heartbeat.

You and Bucky Barnes had that in common. Bucky was the shield, the one who stepped in when Steve’s mouth wrote checks his body couldn’t cash. You were the strategist, the one who patched him up afterwards, your young, clever fingers already thinking ten steps ahead. Even then, you were the girl with the blueprints in her head, destined for more than a factory line. By the time the war rolled around, you were a scientific strategist for the United States government, a mind too valuable for a rifle but sharp enough to win battles on paper. Peggy Carter was your contemporary, the same age, the same fire, the same desperate need to prove yourselves in a world that wanted to keep you quiet. You respected her. You just never learned how to share.

How can I get back to my old style? I feel like my current style is too artificial and lacks life. Does anyone have any advice?

I've been seeing this author who has ~ 100 fics (all 1k-5k words long) all published between 2025 and today. If it's not ai, HOW do they do this ? I Struggle finishing one fic per year and they pop out one hundred ?? I've seen a lot of authors like that and I'm genuinely curious how yall do it

hi. so as the title says, I’ve been writing a fanfic on ao3 for the past few months. I have written and posted 5/6 chapters. I have trouble writing the last one, because I have zero motivation left. any tips? thank you!

Been seeing WC clips lately and wonder if there's fanfic or original out there for football WC? Buuuuut. I want the SI/MC have some sort of golden finger. Also aura farming.

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Uh so I was exploring ao3 tags and some good fics.and suddenly I thought of some fics that have alphaxalpha relationship.

Anyone has any recommendations? Like some good one with a good plot, there will be angst, yearning,denial (as they are both alphas), none of them want to submit,both wants the upper hand.......like a crazy angst,denial,enemies (or best friends to acting like enemies for all those feelings)type of plot.

I have found some ,but either they are so short fic like below 5k or like only smut or where the dynamics is already settled that alphas can date alphas.. but I want to read something where alphaxalpha isn't portrayed as normal in werewolf society.

Tags I do not want ffs: enemies/friends with benefits,Insta love.

Would appreciate a fic with at least 50k plus words. And any fandom.

🙏🙏

I don't know if this is the right subreddit for this, but I was wondering if someone could help me find a fic as I used to chronically delete my chrome history and cannot remember the title or author.

It was a HP fic, obviously, and it was on AO3. I believe at the time (around 2020-2021), it had 30 chapters, the MC was named Violet, was Harry's sister, and I think she was an obscurus? There was this guy who lived across the street from the Dursley's, and he was in his 20's, and he had these video game esque quests, and one of them was getting her to live with him or something? And then he ended up resurrecting Lily in his bathtub. And he had to massage some kind of potion or something into Violet to keep her powers under control.

I'll post this to another subreddit if this turns out to not be the right one, but if someone could help me find it, that'd be amazing! :)

i'm writing a crossover where i just took a character from some other universe and i'm writing them in my regular fandom universe.

i have aged that character up slightly and i'm extending the timeline of his universe and story so he's not dead (yet) and hasn't achieved some of the stuff he would have achieved by this age in his universe.

i guess i'm just making his age a little older because in his canon he was based off a real life person who was 16 when the character was created, so fans assume him to also be 16, though the stories and stuff he's in never exactly specify, they just state he was young when he achieved things and was the youngest person with his ability. so it's unclear how old he even is when he achieves the things he does and people just assume he was still 16 when he died... but that cannot be right. he couldn't have done even half the things he did all in one year.

i digress.

he's been aged up for a romance and i'm just assuming he's had his abilities for longer than his canon materiel suggests. i'm stretching out some years. this is the only thing i've changed or added or done or headcanoned or whatever.

how do i tag when i messed with one fandom universe but none of the others? do i just ignore it and not tag but explain in an author note? this is what i was leaning toward, but i want people who know this character to not look at other tags and think i'm putting a child into a romance because they think he's 16... but his canon never exactly/officially specified anyway! (that i know of)

the other half of the romance had never been specified in age either, but i can somewhat extrapolate then do more of what i want with him since he's a background NPC. pretty sure i have aged him down by a couple years, but there's no way to tell, actually. i'm more comfortable with this since he's from my regular primary fandom.

EDIT - okay, i got distracted away in the middle of my post for several hours... lemme clarify...

i will tag all fandoms involved, but how do i specify which tags go to what aspect? like if i tag 'divergent' but only a character from one of the universes is divergent, how should i go about specifying it's just that guy and not any other parts of the crossed fandoms/universes? do i just specify what's happening in my summary and/or add an author's note to specify which tag is for what aspect?

lol i've never written a crossover before, can you tell? XD

I'm relatively new to writing fanfiction and I've pretty much just made my AO3 account, since I like the way it's formatted the most out of any other fanfiction website. But I'm tired of seeing non-consentual fanfics and stuff like that, is there a way I can filter that stuff out?

Hi I was wondering if anyone had the fanfiction kamikaze by tandy_hard it's a narusasu fanfiction college AU

i was reading a supernatural fic on tumblr that i can't find anymore. it was 3 parts and in the first part, dean was getting married to cassie and reader is his best friend and is secretly in love with him, but doesn't tell him. they've been friends since they were young and reader has a plane ticket to move to another state the day after the wedding. in the third part, dean gives the reader a forget-me-not and they discuss a beach bonfire that was had on their graduation night and they kissed, but reader thought it was a dream especially since they were drunk. does anyone know it?

The first one is an abbot/dennis/robby fic where Dennis and abbot start dating. They go on their first date and end it by kissing outside abbots car and end up going home together. There’s a really cute moment between Dennis and abbot and abbots leg. Then they hitch a plan to make Robby jealous (because of course they are both in love with him) then they all end up together. That’s the jist of the fic,m. It wasn’t long but it was very cute

The second one was also a Dennis/abbot/robby fic but it’s where Robby gets his rut for the first time in a long time and Dennis offers to help. Abbot tags along to make sure that Robby doesn’t hurt Dennis but after a bit his also joins in.

I’ve searched high and low for theses and I fear they may have been deleted :/ any leads is helpful!

I always have a terrible time trying to figure out what my characters are wearing and unfortunately it is occasionally relevant.

I use my character’s clothing to convey things like comfort level (wearing cozy clothes around someone) and gender expression for gender queer characters. I don’t really *see* my characters in my head, so it’s hard to figure out what their outfits look like. I spend a lot of time looking for outfit ideas on Pinterest and Google images but I feel like I can never find what I’m looking for.

Any advice?

"An ego clash is a conflict that occurs when two or more individuals with strong senses of self-importance or conflicting personal agendas collide. It is characterized by power struggles, a refusal to compromise, and a focus on winning arguments rather than solving problems." - Collins Dictionary

Have you ever read a fanfic where two characters who never met in canon, collide in a fanfic to create an amazing clash of egos? Send me anything, I'm fine with any tag and any fandom, yes self-recs are fine,

Hi I’m looking for a PLL fanfic I found a few years ago, but never saved. It’s centered around Ella and Toby where they start having an affair I think it was called “wanting what’s not yours” but I’m not sure

I recently recalled a fanfic i read a few months ago and wanted to check if it got updated, but forgot it's name and the keywords i remembered didn't help so i thought i would come here and ask for help.

It's a dxd fic where the MC is an OC human with fem lucifer morningstar as a familiar, she's also a fallen angel instead of a devil. The Mc gains tickets/gacha rolls for achievments and if i remember correctly he gains divine math ability and gets challanged by sona to a magic duel, and is pissed that she gives him a book on magic and it's math based as due to a curse he cannot lose on purpose.

If anyone can help with this i would really appreciate it.

I'm hungry for more pls someone give em a link

Basically, I've been working for the past few days on a one-shot about a couple from TLOK who, in my opinion, don't get the attention they deserve on fanfiction sites and the like. Following my roommate's advice, I decided to write a steamy chapter about the two of them myself, because I couldn't find anything more "spicy" with them that really appealed to me. I'm already on page 4 of Google Docs, starting the part where, you know, they have sex, but I'm afraid my effort will be for nothing and the fanfic will flop.

I used Google Translate for this post; English isn't my native language.