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  • abhorsen.

    Recommendations FAQ

    By abhorsen.

    How do I contribute to the rec section? To contribute, you'll need to start your own rec blog by going to "Create Blog" and then selecting whatever category you want to make recs in. If you want to recommend something that doesn't have its own subcategory yet or just want to keep everything within one blog, you can just select the broader "Recommendations" category.   How do I search for fics I want? You can click a tag directly in a rec, or you can go to +this link. Typ
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  • toomanycurls

    Black History Month: Essential Black Authors to Read | The Daily Show's List

    By toomanycurls

    One hallmark of any Black History Month is getting a reading list. More important than a reading list is knowing what people have thought of books or if they are planning to read any on a given list so:  Here is a list transcribed from Essential Black Authors to Read | The Daily Show. I'd love to know which people have read or are planning to read from this list or from any list on Black History Month.  STAMPED: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram Kendi and Jason Reynolds  M
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  • crowsb4bros

    A Quick Tour of FFT for Beginners!

    By crowsb4bros

    Hello and welcome to FFT! We're so happy to have you!  We'd like to give new members a quick tour of our site! Before being able to post anything visible to other members, you need to be fully validated by our staff. To do so, please start at the Welcome to FanficTalk+ thread and read our rules and guidelines+. After you confirm that you've read them and agree, a staff member will validate your post and you'll be free to post across the forum. Once you do, we'd love for you to introduce you
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Plot Planning (for Camp FFT

Plot Planning (for Camp FFT)

Plot Planning   I thought long and hard about what to say about plotting, and I have concluded that there are as many ‘right’ ways to handle plotting as there are kinds of authors. There are not only differences in the ways we as authors want to structure our stories, but also differences in what the various readers want to read.   So what is your plot? There’s no such thing as a story without any plot. The plot is whatever you choose to have happen in your story.  
Oregonian

Oregonian in Plot Planning (for Camp FFT

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Character Development Advice (for Camp FFT)

Character Development Advice (for Camp FFT)

I'll address myself to one aspect of character development - the necessity to avoid putting the character in all the same (or very similar) scenes, acting and reacting in the same way every time he appears in the narrative.  We get an initial impression of him in his first scene and learn nothing new about him thereafter.  He always does and says XYZ in all of his scenes.  This is not "character consistency," it is "character paralysis." Even minor characters who appear in few scenes do not
Camp FFT

Sidekicks Matter (and are usually my favorite) | Random Writing Advice

Was just talking with @Pixileanin about this point and figured I'd share for one of our Camp FFT prompts.  Sidekicks matter folks. That's some of the best writing advice I was given. A reader gets to know your lead character - even if you're writing from their POV - you get to know them from how they react to the world and how the reactions of people around them compare. It's the same for world-building too. Side characters are what give your story perspective and momentum. They're your tem
GotNoJamsss

GotNoJamsss in Camp FFT

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Story Recommendation

Doctor Gregory House might have met his match in Verso by Kovou

Verso by Kovou (on A03) Anyone who has ever watched House, MD either loves or hates Gregory House. He’s snarky, rude and can put more politically incorrect phrases in a sentence than is feasible. The audience either loves to laugh or is horrified by his behavior. His co-workers toggle between tolerance and despising him and his boss has thousands of dollars set aside for, not if, but when they get sued because of his lack of bedside manner. He’s also a diagnostic genius who plays on wo
Predictable Chaos

Predictable Chaos in Story Recommendation

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Camp FFT

Plotting Tips For Those Who Don't Plot Good

(and want to learn to do other stuff good too) If you’ve read anything in my WJ you know plotting is my least favorite thing to do with a story. George R. R. Martin calls it a gardening approach - which sounds better than ‘making it up as I go along’ so we’re going to lean into that and think positively during this post.  I don’t like planning things in general - vacations, appointments, what to eat for the week. This carries over into my writing too. I have shapes and colors of what I
GotNoJamsss

GotNoJamsss in Camp FFT

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Camp FFT

Character Development Tips

I'm here to share a couple of character tips for when you're starting out on a new adventure or stuck in a rut that you need to dig your way out of. Hope this is helpful or at least the tiniest bit amusing. I'm just enjoying myself around the Camp FFT bonfire roasting marshmallows.  TWO QUESTIONS When I sit down to create a character I’m usually starting with two questions:  1. What do they want? 2. Why can’t they get it? These questions are going to be what I come back to
GotNoJamsss

GotNoJamsss in Camp FFT

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Story Recommendation

The Way of Conquest by Pagination on AO3-Story Rec

The Way of Conquest by pagination Fic Recommendation I’ve been on a Star Wars kick lately and who better to read about than Mando. (Actually, perhaps Obi-wan is best, but I love this story, so Mando is.) The title is The Way of Conquest but I would probably retitle it Crackfic Kills the Sith Chancellor and Poor Mando Must Mop Up the Mess.  Poor Din Djarin ends up the Chancellor of the Galactic Republic by way of Time Traveling Force Osik and Articles of Succession, Section 238, Subsection 1
Predictable Chaos

Predictable Chaos in Story Recommendation

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robin's musings

The Three Elements of Character Creation

Character creation can be the bane of many a writer’s existence, especially when creating a character for a plot that has already been developed or a setting that has already been created. There are three aspects to creating a character: role creation, physical creation, and emotional creation.   The first step in creating a character in either original fiction or fan-fiction is the role creation. This means figuring out the role the character will play in the setting. Every character
Lost_Robin

Lost_Robin in robin's musings

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writing and brainstorming

on lack of inspiration and fashion imitating life

for a few months now i have been feeling this itch to write. i want to write something. i want to work on my works in progress. i want to attempt original fiction that i know is going to be underwhelming and mediocre (because just about anyone seems to be publishing their work nowadays and i have to rank at least a little bit higher than them by this point to be honest). but the overwhelming problem i run into outside of just not being able to make myself sit down and actually start is that i am
lebensmude

lebensmude in writing and brainstorming

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General

Homecoming

Hello, FFT! It’s certainly been a while. I’ve been lurking on the forums for the last couple of weeks, wondering if I should post anything. It’s been SUCH a long time. I haven’t been on here since pre-pandemic, which somehow feels like fifty seconds ago and fifty years ago simultaneously. (Anyone else feel like time doesn’t make sense anymore?)  For those who don’t remember me or haven’t met me, I’m Reilly! I was here a lot until about 5 years ago, usually hanging out in the former Rav
Eleventh Hour

Eleventh Hour in General

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personal

Yet another personal update that's lengthy! Okie dokie!

Hello there to anybody who has stopped by and read this! First and foremost, as always, I do want to give a heads up about this blog is going to be quite lengthy one and yes, it's a personal update. So yeah.  I thought I would have not been able to compose, type, write, or whatever you want to call this entry for the longest time as I often try to work on a blog entry on here, type what I needed to type, and then either I'm exhausted from all I typed, don't approve of it because perfectioni
starlitcastles

starlitcastles in personal

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Event Recap

Final Report: Project Tempus Linea

Hello everyone, and welcome to the final report on Project Tempus Linea! Before the Time Guides announce the team that revealed the identity of the Time Thief, we need to ensure our records are in order for future Travelers’ reference:   The Travelers The Tardis - WriteYourHeartOut, The Impossible Girl, Aphoride, prideofprewett, PinsandKneazles, and Pixileanin The DeLorean - Owlpost68, Oregonian, Predictable Chaos, inmyownlittlecorner, Witty Wayfarer, and Bat Stitch Crazy
blackballet

blackballet in Event Recap

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Event Results

2024 Golden Ink Awards Statistical Review

2024 Golden Ink Awards Nominations Statistical Breakdown Hello and welcome to my fourth annual statistical breakdown blog about everything that was nominated/moved on to being a finalist for the Golden Ink Awards this year! Let's pretend I didn't forget to do this last year, mm k? Voting closed earlier this week, and the results will be announced soon! Let's dive right in to the numbers, shall we? NOMINATIONS Statistics discussed in this section include anything that was init
magemadi

magemadi in Event Results

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Reflection

Reigniting The Spark?

Hello fellow fan fic dwellers, it has been a mighty long time. I apologise in advance, this is a little rambly and a lotta personal, but it felt like the right place to put it out to the world   It is so incredibly heartwarming to see many of the members I remember so dearly still on these forums and writing and the new members that have popped up.  For those who may not remember me, or who don't even know me, I am Grace, aka BLONDEbehaviour (oh to be 14 again when I created THAT usern
BLONDEbehaviour

BLONDEbehaviour in Reflection

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Personal

The Long Road Home

It's been awhile hasn't it? When I tried to start working my way back in December of last year, I spent some time reflecting on how I got here. How it began, how it grew, where I've gone, what this community means to me - and why I walked away. The results were...interesting (to me anyway) and like a persistent plot bunny I felt I had to get it out of me whether it gets read or not. What follows is a personal account of my journey. You can probably gather from the title that it's long and f
TidalDragon

TidalDragon in Personal

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General

Sing Your Heart Out

(TW: Suicide)   If we're talking interests that lie outside of reading and writing, the top of the list for me has to be music.   When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Cinderella - the PBS version starring Lesley Ann Warren, specifically. Four year old Tanya knew every word, every note, and every dance move of that entire film, and she would only wear dresses or skirts, but NOT just any dress or skirt, no, they had to twirl like Cinderella's did when she danced. I was not a g
WriteYourHeartOut

WriteYourHeartOut in General

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Bastille Day

Bastille Day

I began celebrating Bastille Day nine years ago when my granddaughter, who was born in Paris and lived her first six years in Africa, came back to the United States. She is a dual American-French citizen because her father is French, so it seemed appropriate as well as fun. July fourteenth is always sunny and warm (it doesn’t rain in summer here), so we put tables out on the lawn where the trees provide shade from the sun, and have a lovely dinner for about a dozen guests, my version of Fre
Oregonian

Oregonian in Bastille Day

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Chancel Drama

Chancel Drama

When I was a child it was common in churches at Christmas time to present the annual Christmas Pageant during a Sunday worship service. The younger children of the church would be dressed in costumes to play the roles of the characters in the Christmas story – Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus (a doll), shepherds, sheep, Wise Men, angels. As a preschool-age participant, you started off in a small role, a sheep or a small angel, and over the years, as you grew, you worked your way up to a major role, Mary
Oregonian

Oregonian in Chancel Drama

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General

Cake, Cake, and More Cake!

I don't particularly enjoy baking, if I'm honest.   But you know what I do enjoy? Decorating my bakes! In fact, I usually just bake to get to the decorating part (and the eating, of course)!   It was just something I started doing randomly one day about ten years ago. I had just moved into my first solo apartment and was throwing a housewarming party, which I decided to theme as a bit nerdy (Harry Potter cake pops, Minecraft cake, Doctor Who fishfingers and custard, etc). I f
WriteYourHeartOut

WriteYourHeartOut in General

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Ancient History

Ancient History

One of my big interests, dating from my early childhood, is archaeology and ancient history.  Why?  Maybe because it gives us a glimpse into the lives and cultures of people who lived so long ago, the deep origins of who we are today, the mind-boggling discoveries that are constantly expanding our knowledge of what happened hundreds and even thousands of years ago.  The puzzles that we are solving, or at least coming close to solving, year by year.  The Mycenaean script called "Linear B" was dec
Oregonian

Oregonian in Ancient History

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Recommendations

Recommendations for Tardis Team

I've decided to recommend from A03 just becuase I'm sure you all are so familiar with the FFT Archives. My favorite trope, without a doubt, is Time Travel, so here are my favs: 1. Time Mutable Immutable by deGroot- It's a SS/HG. (I know a lot shy away from that pairing) but I love them together. Hermione is trying to stop some Voldemort Worshipers from changing time. They have determined that Snape is the lynchpin to the entire war and she must protect a teenage Snape. I love the friends to
Predictable Chaos

Predictable Chaos in Recommendations

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Lying Josephine

A Christmas Miracle: The Update

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone (it's after midnight in my timezone so I can say this)!!! ???   If you read my previous blog, you'll already know this, but a quick recap for anyone who hasn't and doesn't: I started writing my fanfic novel Lying Josephine literally like fifteen years ago, and after averaging about one chapter per year for the first seven chapters/years, I then went on a five year hiatus, so this thing has just sat around lifeless for a long, long time. However, back when
WriteYourHeartOut

WriteYourHeartOut in Lying Josephine

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Lying Josephine

A Christmas Miracle (or HELP ME! I married a fan of my super old fanfic and want to finally finish writing it as a Christmas gift!)

Oh, hello there! And no, the Christmas miracle is not that I've found myself on fanfictalk.com again (although it could be considered one as well, it's been far too long). Anyone remember me? Highlights of my career: top tier riddle solver, former website blower-upper, professional procrastinator, and now we can add to the resume "wife of fellow fanfic writer and member Cannons/Fin"! A little background on the the romance before I literally BEG for help: Fin and I met on HPFF many many
WriteYourHeartOut

WriteYourHeartOut in Lying Josephine

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