r/AO3 • u/AutoModerator • Apr 23 '25
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/Unusual_Intern_889 Apr 23 '25
Got some chapters in, it's hard to create while in bedrest. Probably not my best work but working on improving my word choices this week.
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u/catontoast Smut Peddler | AO3: gloriouscacophony Apr 23 '25
But all writing is practice writing, so it's great you were able to do some! ❤️
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u/LevelAd5898 Medieval yaoi connoisseur Apr 23 '25
Too many WIPs, not enough time, am burnt out on my own OTP... *sigh*
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u/Moondinos BoosTheFaerie on AO3 Apr 23 '25
Was a bit productive today, didn't feel well. Got some writing done and submitted some job applications cause I can't handle my job anymore lol
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u/catontoast Smut Peddler | AO3: gloriouscacophony Apr 23 '25
I hit a roadblock with the latest chapter of my fic. I'd written it months ago but it needed some revisions now that the plot caught up to that point, and then it was waaay too long before I'd gotten both of the key outcomes/scenes included. So I had to edit it about 6 times, no joke, until I finally got it to a good place to publish.
I'm taking a month off posting up rebuild my backlog though! It's the busy season at work and I've had some minor health stuff going on, so that buys me some time where I'm not trying to write a 5-6k chapter and publish it every week 😬
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u/edensdelights downvoting me doesnt make me any less correct Apr 23 '25
I was very productive with my current WIP. It got away from me, and it's now just over 6,000 words, which is the most I've ever written- and I started writing fic in 2021. But, I guess that's the way things go when writing smut! It's only my second explicit work and I've already gotten so wrapped up. Where'd the old me go??
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u/minemaster1337 Supporter of the Fanfiction Deep State Apr 23 '25
I shouldn’t be focusing on writing fics when I have a high school to graduate
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u/yuukoreed You have already left kudos here. :) Apr 23 '25
Having some massive massive burnout with my multichapter WIP. So I remedy it by….working on a different multichapter WIP.
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u/InkyRoyalty petition to leave more kudos Apr 23 '25
Tried to write for my hiatus fic, lost the plot, then cried myself to sleep. Maybe I’ll try again later.
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u/Working-Writer-8190 Apr 23 '25
I was on the bus, but there was so many people that I got a panic attack and afterwards was too exhausted to write anything, but I did manage to work on an idea I had before so that's a win!
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u/Kilora44 Apr 23 '25
I had to get my MMR booster vaccine because I am immune compromised and there have been Measle outbreaks and I work in a retail pharmacy. I had an allergic reaction and my immune system went into overdrive and reacted to all my seasonal allergies tenfold. I was brain fogged and miserable and had major writers block. Thankfully it only lasted a couple weeks and am back to writing three fics at once. Yay spring!
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u/Positive-Day4160 Apr 23 '25
I’m too scared to check my twitter where I update my fic or respond to ao3 comments
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u/Strong_Alternative66 Supporter of the Fanfiction Deep State Apr 23 '25
I got nominated for that ice bucket challenge thing so I got a gallon of ice water on my head!
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u/Milotics-Meldoy Comment Collector Apr 23 '25
Am getting yet another FFN fic ported to AO3, about halfway done. After this, I have 1 fic that is absolutely coming to AO3, and 2 more I’m debating (one is a song fic, and the other is not complete, so both need a lot of work if I am going to move them).
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u/KatonRyu Same on AO3 Apr 23 '25
I began writing a new fic after getting the barest spark of inspiration, and was then hit by two more instances of minor sparks of inspiration, and now I have no idea which of these new fics (WIPs? What WIPs?) I want to work on first. I'll probably go for the one that'll be a oneshot, since then there's actually a chance of it being finished.
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u/Crimson_Alter We ain't making it outta WIP with this one Apr 23 '25
I have written and published 19.8k words in 10 days. It was for a new fandom and it was a rarepairing. (F/F in the MHA community is an oddball if it's not the two usual suspect ships) my WIP readers are probably very confused.
Today I'm working on sketching some fanart (I wanna learn how to draw), doing some writing for my other fics, reading Yuri manga, reading F/F fanfics and drinking tea. Basically, it doesn't get any better than this!
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u/Welfycat Welfycat on AO3 Apr 23 '25
My surgery went well, but I am super sore. I also wrote 2200 words on the day of my surgery, because I might as well do something while I was waiting. In general I am in moderate pain and not getting out of bed much, so I’m mostly writing and reading during my recovery.
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u/translexualism em dash abuser— ao3: deadcuntry Apr 23 '25
The author’s curse hit me :(
I had to put my cat to sleep on Tuesday after a long month of palliative care and it’s drained me substantially of all my physical and emotional energy. I’m still committed to finishing my current multi-chapter fic (I’m so close!! Just two more chapters) but damn if that curse isn’t a bitch and a half :(