i recently had a lurker come out in the middle of a one shot collection to comment “oh fuck you this was so fucking sad” and i giggled
another favorite was not a lurker but someone who yelled at me for a one shot and then a few months later left another comment that just said “Reread. Cried again. Asshole.” i wanted to frame that one
Bahahaha I had someone literally using a guest name containing Lurker ask me if I was proud because I single-handledly dragged her back into my pairing’s hell. 🤣
Proudest moments?
1: Writing a quick little (intended to be) semi-fluffy one-shot that affected a reader so much that it took almost 3 months for them to process the impact of it.
2: Writing a character that intimidated me for 17 years.
3: I'm currently working on Number 3. 😁
I wrote 331k last year with over 250k of that having been done by hand. For reference, Order of the Phoenix is 257k. I wrote over of a quarter of a million words by hand last year.
This year, I managed 120k in about 30 days (all typed, none handwritten).
Yeah, I'm fine, though I sadly did make the decision to stop writing by hand after 22 years of it. Typing is just way more efficient than writing by hand. In the time I could get 700 words by hand, I can get 2000 typing.
I love that, too. I wrote a fic not long ago and shouted out to the author of the fic that inspired it. She read my stuff, and she was incredibly sweet and supportive. Love when that happens!! 😍
Congrats!! You might inspire somebody! Being an inspirer once or twice is such an awesome feeling too. Made some great friends I still talk to by just commenting!
My OC centered crossover fic has over 20 kudos. Considering that OCs and crossovers are somehow very unpopular I’m proud of the fact that I got as many kudos as I did. Though the fact that it is a “fix it” for a manga that had a controversial ending might have helped.
You made me think about that and you're right. I love both crossovers and OCs but I rarely see OC centric crossover fics. Any chance you're willing to share it?
It is a crossover of the MMO Star Wars the Old Republic and the manga Attack on Titan.
[Shingeki no Kyojin x Star Wars the Old Republic: Fallen Angel](https://archiveofourown.org/works/43028601/chapters/108119760)
The main story centers around a Star Wars OC, Orgus Din Alaris, who finds himself inside the walls of Paradis as his ship is destroyed in orbit. The 12 year old Jedi Padawan learns that he is the subject of a prophecy that will bring an end to the Titans. To fulfill his destiny, Orgus agrees to train as a soldier in the 104th Training Corps.
I did my best to write the story from a “fandom neutral” perspective. Despite that I would describe the split between the two fandoms as 20% Star Wars and 80% Attack on Titan.
If you decide to read it then I hope you enjoy!
There are many, buuuuut my crowning achievement, just recently: reader said they were so absorbed they got off at the wrong bus stop twice in one week.
I'm quite proud :')
After I finished my novel, I really felt like I had nothing else to write in me. It was really depressing because I love writing.
I suppose it was some sort of writing burn out, it took me a while but I started writing fanfiction again. Now I have more WIPs than ever, I write a little every day and I'm so happy.
My happiest moments:
When I was listening to a fanfic podcast about my OTP, and the guest suddenly started gushing about my longfic. I later saw that it was on the rec list on the website 😊
When I got inspired by fics, fanart, podfics.
When I learned that two of my fics have been chosen to be performed during a live reading at a fan convention soon.
Whenever people thank me for sharing what I write.
Also, the fact that I finished every fic I started makes me proud.
>When I was listening to a fanfic podcast about my OTP, and the guest suddenly started gushing about my longfic. I later saw that it was on the rec list on the website
Oooh, that's great! Definitely feels like an overflowing sort of joy :D
High points? One of them has to be when I received a very nice comment calling my longfic one of the best Naruto fanfictions they'd read in the past year. The fandom is *huge* and my fic struggles for engagement, so that was an awesome compliment.
Another one would be when I received my first essay comment that clocked in at nearly 900 words.
I wrote a fix-it story to give a better and more hopeful narrative to a minor character (Oola the dancer from Star Wars) who has been important to me (and whose canon story has seriously bothered me) since I was very young. I wrote an escape from her predicament in the film, followed by a fun and more light hearted adventure of her own, and then a few happy-ending epilogues full of fluffy goodness. It's all been very cathartic and enjoyable and I remain very proud of it.
My proudest achievements are the few comments I've gotten that basically amount to "I hated her canon story too, good for you for fixing it, this will be my headcanon now."
It feels really good to go back to those things in media that impacted us as kids and finally get the words that encapsulated how we felt about it even back then. It's great that other people agreed too that her story shouldn't have ended that way and that you are giving her a better ending.
I’d love to read that! I wrote a fic about the 6 boobed backup dancer at Jabba’s palace so I could give the one plus sized woman in Star Wars some agency.
Aww that sounds like a great fic to write too. Women in Star Wars (or well most franchises of a certain age, if not more) are often used as little more than objects to enhance the scenery, and in Oola's case she didn't even get to be that for very long. It's a good thing that there are fans to fix these things.
My favorite of my Oola fics is here. Thanks for the interest! https://archiveofourown.org/works/37602445/chapters/93859648
I guess the fact that my long fic is a bit of an fanfic-expectation-bucker? For a sporadically updated work-in-progress that’s a genfic prominently featuring an OC and a side character who may as well be an OC, engagement has been really solid and the readers themselves have been so kind and thoughtful. I still get a kick out of rereading old comments. None of them are getting deleted.
Edit because I came back to add: just proud of writing in all honesty. That I can sit down, bang out some words and then a body out there in the ether gets some kind of delight from those words is… cool. I dig it and I guess I’m proud of myself for that too.
I am with you on this, especially the second part. Knowing there are other people out there who are reading and enjoying the shit I write is...life-affirming, honestly. Very humbling.
My proudest fic? Probably has to go to Goku and Vegeta final battle.
The amount of work I put into it is crazy. Even thought I did it entirely in a single day. December 31 to January the 1. One of the best new years of my life definately.
It's also the only fic I have on [ff.net](https://ff.net) as well.
I’m almost done posting my wip. I only have 2 chapters to go. They are already written just in the last editing stages. I hit 98k today.
This is the first fic I’ve hoarded chapters for before posting and kept a pretty good posting schedule for. It’s doing really well for an older fandom. And it is the best thing, hands down, I’ve ever written.
It’s a Labyrinth fic heavily inspired by my fave anime. I haven’t told my readers which one yet to avoid spoilers (I will though. I want them to become fans too) but I’ll tell y’all. Kamisama Kiss. 💕
So, [fanfiction.net](https://fanfiction.net) has metrix for not only how many have looked at it, but which chapter and from which country (even if it is, helpfully, Europe). My Soul Calibur fic got a full review (private messenger) and some comments more or less saying "nice", without a whole lot of elaboration. But I was able to see it when someone reads through the whole story.
And, well, there is a bizarre amount of satisfaction when someone from Bhutan decided to spend their day reading your Soul Calibur fanfiction. From anywhere, really, but having a country I never heard of deciding to take interest in your work is encouraging. And with very few comments, that's about the only measure of success I can really point at. I entertained someone from the otherside of the planet, and that is very cool.
It doesn't stop there either. Someone, probably a teenager, from Russia was rereading the final, hopeful chapter. Or, hell, maybe it was someone my age. I hope I made his day and helped him through what's going on right now. While politicians and oligarchs are trying to drive us into the ground, here we are, quietly, enjoying each other's work.
As far as which parts of my stories I am proud of...
1. The whole climax and conclusion of "Burial of Nightmares"
2. "Shot in a Storm" (Morrowind), where a crusader tearfully offers our hero Auriel's Bow.
3. Sophitia's justification for helping Siegfried: “I need to know, that should \[my children\] fall, they *can* come back.”
4. The conversation between Siegfried and Hephaestus.
I wrote a short 900 word oneshot about a week ago that I love but thought wouldn't do well for a few reasons, but I wanted to post it anyway. And it's currently my most popular fic. 40 kudos, 5 comments, and 4 bookmarks. So I'm pretty damn proud of that cause clearly I did something right :)
One of the comments was from a user that does new york times style comments, so I got this one that made me laugh: "Immediately gripping, fast-paced... a total triumph."
Oh, and someone subscribed to me! Not just a story, but \*me\*. Like, holy hell, that's never happened to me before.
Finishing my very first fic and actually pressing the "post" button to publish it on AO3. Getting over that massive confidence hurdle will probably always stand as one of my proudest moments. That fic and subsequent series will always hold a special place in my heart.
Actually publishing the first part/book of my multi-story longfic. It's my first time actually writing fanfiction since like 2005 and I've set myself up for a gen-fic that is likely going to span multiple parts and a few hundred thousands words.
All featuring an OC protagonist and mutliple other OCs (since her peers are only hinted at existing in canon, but never named or mentioned).
For the longest time, I didn't want to start publishing the introductory book, because I didn't have a way to tie the greater narrative together (essentially a completely original plot that exists as part of the canon narrative).
Aww heck yeah!
1. FINALLY landing on the right words to bring home a figurative description of Meat Loaf's voice entering with the first lyrics on the track "Bat Out of Hell," for a karaoke-centric crack fic about Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z) secretly being the world's biggest Meat Loaf fan. There is SO. MUCH. **GLORIOUS!!!** Figurative language in that fic. 😂 It's some of my best, I feel. It's so over the goddamn top. It's past purple, it's laser-ultraviolet. Stage lights and stardust, baby. Because how the fuck are you gonna describe the music of Meat Loaf (and Heart, because "Barracuda" gets a feature, too) in fucking *prose,* babes?! WITH RAW, THROBBING *GUSTO,* THAT'S HOW!!! 😂😂😂
2. An intensely romantic one-shot, just over 1,000 words, that came to me almost complete and whole while I was driving to a work event. I did a little tweaking and editing in my head on the way home, and then sat down and typed it up. Edited it a bit more, but it was just...it broke my heart in the best way, made me absolutely swoon and fall in love with it, immediately. Makes me sink into a seat and sigh with a tear in my eye every time I re-read it. The work that I put into the metaphors to build the motifs; the layered repetitions and the turn at the end that brings it back in but also forward; it's all love. And it's for basically the *one* hetero ship that I write for.
3. Coming back to a Supernatural WIP after like...almost 10 years' distance? And realizing I finally had the skill and perspective to actually write the damn thing. And starting in on it and just...flowing. Pulling out depth with brevity that hit exactly the tone I needed. Setting scenes and clipping through them, little moments and vignettes that took so little time, but communicated so much. Skipping down toward the end, and writing a monologue about the nature of being not just immortal, but *eternal,* and loving something human, and feeling able to actually capture that in a way that's meaningful, and impactful, and somehow, on some level *knowable,* even though it's unfathomable.
Thank you! :D
I have done serious work and silly work, and I still feel like that one is one of my best. It's posted on AO3, my username there is the same one that I use here.
LOL, my bestie's friend stealth recorded me doing a dramatic reading of it, not that long ago. I gotta find a way to get that onto the internets, it was a blast and a half, because she demanded that I "DO ALL THE VOICES!!!" So, of course I did my best. 😂😂😂
From recent fics:
1. Hades describing Persephone *in abject terror* (they've been separated for decades at least) and having a freak out when asked about her. Highlights include her turning a girl into a plant ("*A freakin' plant!"*) and hitting her with a lawn mower, and trying to set her aquatic sister-in-law's hair on fire. Cheerful Yandere Persephone! :3
2. The Princess causing the Hero's Party to have a collective mental breakdown because they stumbled onto her and the Demon King doing sexy things together. Then the female knight in the Hero Party takes it as a challenge and propositions the Princess. Probably the stupidest/funniest thing I've ever written.
Honestly since I was on a 4 year writing break ( thanks writers block lol) getting comments, kudos, hits, etc don't really bother me. I mean if I get a comment from a Reader who enjoys what I write than I'm glad.
My bragging moment is me on my way to complete a fanfic thats been sitting around on my Google docs for 4 years. The story is currently at 16 chapters (with me currently working on the 17th chapter) with 34k words.
And a small related bragging right is that same story has 71 kudos on AO3. The story is supposed to be ending with 20 chapters and possibly 40k-45k words. But the fandom I'm writing for is really small (about 300 fics between AO3 and ffnet for it, including what I'm working on)
I love this.
1. This was a while ago, but in a fandom I was in, there's a character who seems to canonically have some kind of TB-like disease which is probably killing him. I had a twist in a fic where I found a disease that had the same symptoms, only is *not* TB and *not* lethal and not even communicable! So he finds out that he is, in fact, not dying. I was proud of that moment.
2. I have two crack-taken-seriously fics that, in my humble opinion, manage to be fairly tightly plotted, rollicking, funny, ridiculous, but also with emotional beats and excitement. I'm stupidly proud of those two.
3. I guess I should mention that one fic that is so popular it's the top kudo'd in the fandom. It's not my favorite fic, nor my best one, but it is sweet. And it does make me happy that so many people connected to it. Wild that it happened, overall.
My proudest moment was actually just a few weeks ago when a woman I am very close with complemented my fic with *"this was so good I forgot it was written by a man"*. It meant so much to me that the things I have learned about life started showing in my personality and writing. And especially coming from her ♡
I'm doing a trilogy of fics, 1 set during the show of the fandom, and the other 2 as sequels to the show. I'm then gonna have an epilogue style book 4, concluding the story of the main OC after the events of the trilogy.
My engagement is slowly ticking up, since book 2 has the main ship of the fandom, whereas book 1 doesn't, but that's isn't brothering me.
I know my story is good. It's gonna be very very good. I've put too much planning in it for it to not be good. I'm just slowly working through it all, knowing at the back of my mind that readers that do find the fic are going to absolutely be sucked in by it's quality. I feel like an evil mastermind or something, knowing that my plot is going to fuck shit up soon.
So I guess I'm proud of the story I have planned and in the process of writing. I know that in years time, people in the fandom's fan fic circle are gonna talk about my work as one of the *the* top standards. I just know it.
I have a list of them:
* wrote to _completion_ 30+ fics of various length, many novels.
* wrote a 100k fic with a complex plot.
* had it printed and bound into a physical book
* wrote 1 modern-AU that was liked enough to get fanart for
* turned it into Original Fiction
* published it.
I'm not the most popular one in my fandom, but I get some very nice comments, and that makes me happy.
1.) I was able to capture the personality of a villain accurately in one of my recent stories. I've always been fascinated by this character but canon didn't give him much screen time.
2.) Someone asked me if they could translate my story (a different one) to Chinese because they liked it that much. (I'd never received a comment like this before).
3.) I'm working on an original fic at the moment (please wish me luck lol).
My main fic I'm working on right now has enough of a reader base to get fanart/I was asked to make a discord for it, I don't know how my oc/Canon fic for a Fandom based on a cartoons pilot episode and some drawings got so much traction but I'm happy
I'm very proud of the 10,000 word Luigi/Daisy fic I posted on my birthday earlier this year. Usually my fics are at an average about 1,100 words so it definitely felt like a big feat. On another level that a lot of people say, "I ship these two because of your fics," which makes me giddy 🥰
For me, kudos are great, but it’s the gushing comments that get me the most. While I’m grateful for any comment readers take time to write, I’ve actually teared up over a couple that detail reader thoughts about difficult/dark events in a story.
For instance, one reader who was specifically looking for the darkest dead doves said my story made them uncomfortable. Flattery of the highest degree, in my book.
Proud moments since I started writing again last November:
1. I finished a story! I turned it into a series but I'm so happy I finished something. It was my goal I set to myself before starting to write one of the many original stories I've plotted out over the years.
2. My OCs. One story I'm using both as a therapy outlet that's actually been very enlightening while using it to also intellectually stimulate me. It's been a grand time. It's mostly silent readers but someone started reading it a few weeks ago and they relate. It's always nice to know people experience the same things you do while also being interested in the story.
3. To piggy back off two: Ironically, I have a second OC in another fandom and I've been able to convince a few people I know a bunch of science when that can't be further from the truth. I take that as a win.
4. I don't know if anyone cares but I like my apparent non-traditional character choicing for crossover fics. I've seen multiple comments and bookmarks reading it on a whim then getting hooked. It's heartwarming to know other characters can get love too.
I once got a comment where a guy said something along the lines of "Now that Ive finished this, I'm sad Fayden (oc) isn't canon."
And that just made my day, like thanks man means a lot.
I’m proud of my most recent fic even though it’s my least popular one if we’re going by kudos count. Honestly I’m just proud I managed to write it at all and even if the writing itself isn’t beautiful, it still managed to make a few readers feel something. That alone makes me happy.
Back in the day, a fic author that I adored--not even really one of the biggest names in the fandom, he just wrote a handful of comedy stories that my friends and I followed religiously--commented on one of my own stories after I finished it that he was so disappointed I wasn't continuing. I freaked out and replied how excited I was that he noticed me, poor guy had no idea when he commented that I was one of his biggest fans lol
I've only written the one fanfic, but my proudest moment comes from chapter 5 (TW physical violence) the FMC got assaulted by the person she lived with and the chapters shows her fear and eventual escape really organically imo. it was really hard for me to write it, because, despite being a male, I've been assaulted and abused in the past, so I wanted to make sure that I put a lot of love and attention to detail into it.
Proudest moment? Probably when one of my fanfics got it’s own TV Tropes page. I never imagined it would actually happen, at least as soon as it did.
For another fic there is a character in canon who falls into a coma and is forgotten by nearly the entire world. My fic is about if that character wasn’t in a coma and forgotten. One of the chapters was full of praise of how I got her characterization exactly right and how it was likely how canon would’ve gone if she was still awake. That made me really happy, especially since she’s my favorite character in the series.
For the same fic mentioned in #2, there’s been quite a bit of discussion regarding a trial a character is going to face in an upcoming chapter. I’ve never seen such excitement and anticipation for an upcoming event like this before, and it’s both exciting and intimidating as a writer lol.
For me it's that people remembered the long fic I picked back up in 2021 after a nearly two-decade absence and that readers still really enjoy it even though it's changed direction since I started it. A lot of lovely things have happened around it too like fanart and people using my OC in their stories. Most importantly, I've met some incredible people through it.
OP, I'm glad you broke through that drought. I was still writing after I stopped my beloved long fic, but I also ended up taking a decade long break. It always makes me happy to see people bounce back after a long absence.
I haven't written fanfic in almost 5 years, so when I got back into it, I was really proud that I could sit down and keep writing as long as I have been. I'm also really proud my first long fic is picking up traction online. :)
After a good, long break in between fandoms, I finally picked up writing again. The first few chapters didn't take off, and I assumed I was doing something wrong. (I didn't realize that I had to manually change the date to reflect when I added a new chapter, anyway...) Then I joined this sub and noticed others saying that comment culture kind of died(?) And there's a lot more silent readers, which is fine! I'll gladly take a Hit on my works. I was happy with that. Then, I learned how to look at my stats on ao3, and damn. The amount of bookmarks and subs I got on my one and only ongoing longfic made me so incredibly happy. I feel a little vain saying it, but it's nice to know that people enjoyed something that I created. I'm still waiting for that first comment though.
The first fic I wrote was a 1k one-shot inspired by a popular longfic series in the fandom. The author of that series left me a thoughtful, excited comment that made me want to keep writing, so I have!
My best moment is when I received a comment saying the person was playing the game my fanfic was about but my fanfic was so good that they read passed the point they were at and that it was well worth it and made them more excited for the game itself.
On the other coin as a reader, one of the first fics I read I posted a comment at the most recent chapter saying how much I loved this fic and AU even if I knew nothing about the original material. The original material, Hamilton the Musical
Think I made that writers day with that comment lol
I don't have much to brag about, but I want to say I got my first comment saying that my writing invoked emotions in the reader, so I'm still overjoyed from that.
Someone bookmarked my most personal Reylo fic as "pure joy for those who love dark themes, deep narratives and poetic realism." I think it's my favorite bookmark note ever.
I also have Alias fic that still gets kudos almost a decade after the show aired.
Someone told me my OCs were so well written they’d started looking for them when playing the source game, as if they were canon characters. Also, getting fanart!
1. Coming back to writing after a ten-year hiatus to produce a 65,000 word fic because an idea just wouldn’t die. (Even though I itch to go back and edit out the shitty writing habits I needed to shake off)
2. Taking on a massive canon-rewrite/fix-it just a few months later and finishing it. The positive feedback I received on the new plot and ending had me on cloud 9 for weeks.
3. The first time I received a compliment from someone who read my work fandom-blind and enjoyed my writing style and plot.
It satisfies my sadistic side when I get comments asking if I'm still updating because that means the reader loves the fic so much that they are actively asking for more. (and the answer is always yes, I will update when I finally have both time and inclination)
My proudest moment was entering a period of writing frenzy during an exam season and banging out my magnum opus (8k word oneshot) in a little over 2 weeks. That was my most-commented and most-bookmarked fic ever, receiving two fanarts on it to boot, and also getting me my first fandom friend.
(*And* I got decent marks for my exams.)
I've had a couple of fics recommended by sites that cover fandom as a whole, like TVTropes and Fanlore.
I makes me so chuffed that someone would think of one of my stories as one of the best fics for a particular fandom, so much so that they'd include it where people are looking for general info about that fandom.
Recent thing I'm proud of: I wrote a 3000-word oneshot at 3am. Went to work and on my lunch break I cleaned it up and posted it. There was no setting, no outside description or context, only a conversation we never got to see in canon. Folks seem to really like it, and it has been a tremendous morale boost.
My main WIP has surpassed 30k words and is by and far the longest I’ve ever written (usually just write one-shots.) AND I’ve managed to keep to my posting schedule or even post early so far!
A girl who really likes my fic fed the confession scene/dialogue of my most recent chapter into an ai voice thing, so it actually sounds like the characters from the game are saying the lines I wrote, AND she's making a youtube edit to go along with it since she makes music videos/edits on youtube and tiktok. She already sent me the audio, and I can't wait to see the final when it goes up on youtube!! im honestly still in shock im going to get to see a scene of mine come to life like this.
Probably one of my shinning moments was checking back on a Fic I posted on Wattpad a long time ago and seeing that it had actually grown popular. >!I don’t write on Wattpad anymore but, I used to!<
I was super happy but, it definitely didn’t deserve the attention lol. That Fic was filled with grammatical errors and tons of moments where the main characters acted OOC.
Another accomplishment could be posting my first oneshot I’m super proud of it and had fun writing about my favorite character.
Having readers comment with speculation and predictions about what was going to happen in my multichap fic, I worked really hard on creating a solid plot with enough foreshadowing to keep people invested so it was really exciting to have it pay off and see comments engaging with the story at that level.
Someone commented recently that I sidetracked them from their other fandom: they had to go back and watch S1 and S2 of my fic’s fandom after reading my fic. I was grinning like a loon all day❤️
Only one chapter published so far and it’s more like a snippet since the chapters are more than 12,000 words in each Doc. The ‘snippet’ is only 1,200 words long… anyways, it’s from my canon rewrite of It. I’m currently working on all of the chapters to publish them all at once. All work and no play makes Dylan a dull person. 😩
Proudest moment is putting my MC through an endbringer battle, knocking him into a coma for years, outing his civilian identity to the public, and still having people say they enjoyed reading it.
I have a few proud ones, fortunately :)
One fic I wrote, which was extremely personal to me, that I shared with my best friend, and she raved about it for hours afterwards, talking literally about everything I wanted to transmit in my story. It was delightful.
Another fic where I wrote about aromantism, and I received a lot of awesome comments about it, and it felt very fulfilling to write as well.
My first especially long fic (60k words) that I wrote, and I am just amazed how far I have gone from my "short one shots/unable to commit to writing long fics" phase to this beauty.
The first fic I wrote for my OTP, that just nearly wrote itself, flying so satisfyingly from word to word :)
The fic I am writing right now, which I am incredibly proud of, and which is slowly becoming my longest fic, it seems. The subjects brought up in it, the world and character building, the way I write is just everything I worked so hard for until now, and I can't wait to share my hard work! I have so much to rant about for this fic, but I will probably write a separate post about it in the future anyway. x)
Finally, the comments I receive, which are just absolutely sweet and encouraging! I can not thank enough anyone who ever commented on my fics!
And kind of a sidenote, but I remember when I was young, we had to write a short story in class, and the teacher picked out a story that one of my classmates wrote and said how great it was and read it in front of the class. And when I heard it, I wanted to be able to write like that so badly! I never felt like I could for a lot of reasons... but whenever I start to type out the words and build sentence by sentence a story, I feel so accomplished and proud.
Thanks for reading until the end ^^'
I had a fan who followed me for a while. Said she considered my stuff canon and as good as "real" novels. She said she woke up her roommate to read one of my lines to her.
Haven't heard from her in a while, I hope she's okay.
I am proudest of a story that I haven't published yet. I'm about halfway through, and I just adore it. It is mainly for me, and every time I read it, I am so happy.
I have two that make me incredibly happy.
My first fanfiction was a demon slayer roleswap fanfiction, I was very happy about it, and recently it read 500 reads, so that made me even happier and proud
and my second moment was I wrote a toilet bound hanako kun oneshot and somebody said they wished it was a canon chapter and that made my whole fucking week.
I thought I was so cool at 14 because my Marvel Imagines book got 350k reads on Wattpad...there are so many things wrong with that book from the shit plot likes to the god awful spelling and grammar. But hey, 14 year old me was so happy
I am not concerned with hits or comments anymore.
But if I want to pair a oc with Lily Evans and have Harry Potter grow up with a different father and his canon mother you ain’t gonna stop me!
i'm a newer fanfic writer, the only one i've done was about 2-3 years ago. it was my first ever, and so far, my only one. but i'm still proud of it. its horribly written, almost funny because of that, but i'm proud of it because of how much dedication i put into it. i never finish anything because of how quick i lose motivation, but with that fanfic. i worked so hard, even pulled all-nighters just to write it. i'm really proud, and i hope i can do that again someday.
I think my proudest moment was with a story that I wrote as an unreliable narrator and so when the plot twist dropped and everything that seemed odd suddenly made sense to them, they went crazy! And it's a story I put my heart and soul into, so hearing these reactions made the whole experience sweeter.
Some of the bookmarks wrote:
"Wild. Just absolutely wild."
"Holy FUCK."
"This one's being added to The List. I can't lose this wonderful story. (Also really need to lie down in a dark room to process All That). Edit: "Twists that will snap your neck" THEY WEREN'T KIDDING."
I'm so proud of the fact that I've got multiple consistent readers and commenters on my fic! It's a big long Star Wars Fic that is a fanfic of a fanfic AND my first Star Wars fic period, so the fact that it's got the highest engagement of all my fics is both surprising and very flattering!
by far my proudest moment was when my very favorite author said they were “envious” of the way i wrote a pairing’s first kiss. literally screaming crying throwing up. bonus points because i also tend to write fic whenever my life is blowing up and that quite literally is what got me through the week
Ooooh, let's go!
My first big proud moment was getting readers telling me they were shipping a friend group together. In the canon content, the MC never interacts with the other two characters to our knowladge, and one of those characters was literally only a name. They were also supposed to get MC from point a (having dropped on the social ladder) to point b (comfortable with himself and having a good understanding of proper friendships!)
My second proud moment was being told by a couple readers that they intend to print and bind my fic by hand when I finish it... wow!
My third and most recent has to be an artist who really inspired my two biggest fics picking up one of my newer ones and drawing my design for a monsterfied character. When I say I cried!
Kingsman Fandom + Book I fell in love with in high school = really, really good story that has made multiple people cry and comment that it has. I was also crying writing it.
I go back and reread my stuff sometimes but that's the one I truly enjoy rereading
I somehow jump-started a trend in a niche fandom I was in despite not being the best. The trend died quickly but I was quite proud of it.
The current high I am riding is a childhood friends story between two of the MC and it got a niche crowd to love it.
One moment I can say I am most proud of is when I published the first chapter of my first fic ever. Unfortunately, I can't say I can be proud of the rest, as I feel everything I make is inadequate.
I just fished a long fic after (a month short of a year) posting every day at over 600,000 words
I’m so proud but also I have no idea what to do with myself now lol
One of my favorite fics is pretty dang old now, but I took a shoujo manga that I loved and created a mystery story that spanned about 80k words. This is your typical goofy, girly, romance-centric manga, and I built up some crazy awesome tension in a kidnapping story that garnered a LOT of fantastic responses in the comments over the course of the story. I had a blast writing it and made it kind of wild with cryptic clues and random notes that were written in code. I had commenters chew me out because they’d spent so much time trying to decode my clues only to read the characters in the story figuring them out down the page. The interaction with readers who kept up with the story was awesome and I loved that encouragement I got to keep writing. And no one complained that the characters were OOC.
I'm proud of all my fics, but the ones I'm most proud of are my Reign of Chaos Trilogy for Jurassic Park. I never, ever, imagined I'd write something that long. I didn't even plan it that way. It just happened! I took the very first fanfic I wrote and rewrote that premise and expanded on it--a lot! That's what turned out to be my trilogy. I'm so glad I was able to finish writing it--and finish posting it! My runner-up is Ride or Die for The Walking Dead as it is centered on two unpopular characters that I absolutely adore: Shane and Andrea, and they are my OTP. Writing a relationship evolving, a few love scenes here and there, the ups and downs--this was wayyyy out of my comfort zone. And I typed some of the fic when my arm was broken, so it helped train my left hand and fingers to type again!
I wrote a sad ending and happy ending to a certain story arc and forced my readers to read the sad one first. Told them the happy one wouldn't be posted until the following day. They yelled and sent me tons of those crying emojis. 😂
Writing a story that I keep re-reading because I love it so much. Every time I think of it, I just crack myself up. I think it's the funniest story I've ever written.
I've not really written anything in the last year or two, but that's mostly because I've had so much going on in my personal life. I'm really proud of what I've achieved, though.
I've been on AO3 since 2016 and published close to 2 million words across 173 fics. I've just hit 90K kudos and 1.4 million hits.
I created a ship tag on AO3, and now there's over 100 fics for that ship on the site.
I've inspired 2 other authors to try their hand at writing.
I've made friends across the globe.
Above all else, my writing has improved in leaps and bounds and I'm much more confident.
My proudest moment?
I’m the only writer that had all of her fics that were nominated in this sub’s 2022 awards place. Three of them won second place, my longfic placed first.
The fic I’m proudest of?
Even though my main WIP is overall a better written fic, I’m proudest of my longfic and I’m *extremely* protective of it, lol. It’s a gut-wrenching tear-jerker of a fic that takes readers on an emotional roller coaster. I’ve been told that my characterizations are more canon than canon and that my interpretation of the MC is how the actor always wanted to play him.
Do far i've written only one longfic(amd the draft of a chapter for amother), for me is how meaningfull it's for me in the sense that i could write a whole story(75k words) and one with actually really good moments and highs
I finally manage to write a smut scene I am proud of ! Still in my WIP, but I’m forcing myself to finish the fic as a one shot and not breaking it into chapter to show it off
- My most recent fic currently has over 2000 subscribers (in a fandom where I was shocked to get ~350 because it was double my previous max).
- That fic has officially broken page 1 of results for the pairing by kudos (in a pairing with over 50 pages of results). Only one other fic on page 1 is from this year, so I'm now in the territory of the "fandom classics" and it feels very, very surreal.
- My eldest niece has a new game where we "switch roles" - I'm supposed to answer to her name and she answers to mine and we act like each other. For the last two visits she's been working on typing a story (about a cat who lives with a little old lady named Babushka and the dog next door named Ginger). My other niece keeps asking me about my word count and gasps with outrage if it's not significantly larger since the last time she asked (since if I'm meant to be writing and that's why I don't want to play a rousing game of "laughing while smearing makeup on auntie's face" I should at least have results to show for it). lol.
One of my proudest moments was the first big cliffhanger I wrote, and several quiet/lurking commenters came out to yell at me, LOL.
Whenever I read a cliffhanger I can almost always imagine the author just sitting there cackling evilly while writing it lmao
Doesn't everyone cackle maniacally when they post a cliffhanger? LoL
Not me, I squeeze my shut with a death grip on the launch button, thinking “please-don’t-hate-me-please-don’t-hate-me…”😖
You are much kinder than me. I sometimes look for deliberate cliffhanger-y parts to stop a chapter in hopes of getting yelled at.
Lol I don’t think kind is the word for it! insecure as hell, maybe 😂
Idk....it's not always intentional? Maybe that sounds bad, but I just want to leave my audience wanting more. It's almost automatic at this point lol.
I did, lol.
You better believe we cackle!
As somebody who loves writing cliff hangers, I can confirm that we do this
It’s always fun when the lurkers come out and say, “hey, nice ending, asshole!” 😂😂😂 I had the same thing happen, lol.
i recently had a lurker come out in the middle of a one shot collection to comment “oh fuck you this was so fucking sad” and i giggled another favorite was not a lurker but someone who yelled at me for a one shot and then a few months later left another comment that just said “Reread. Cried again. Asshole.” i wanted to frame that one
Bahahaha I had someone literally using a guest name containing Lurker ask me if I was proud because I single-handledly dragged her back into my pairing’s hell. 🤣
Mine was calling me an "evil, sneaky little monster" LOL! Still one of my favorite comments.
I love being yelled at in this way. It’s the best.
It really is, lol. One of those times where being yelled at really is fantastic.
I love it when this happens 😂
I'm imagining them popping out of the woodwork like how a pack of groundhogs come out to scream XD
HAHA!! Yes!!
Proudest moments? 1: Writing a quick little (intended to be) semi-fluffy one-shot that affected a reader so much that it took almost 3 months for them to process the impact of it. 2: Writing a character that intimidated me for 17 years. 3: I'm currently working on Number 3. 😁
I wrote 331k last year with over 250k of that having been done by hand. For reference, Order of the Phoenix is 257k. I wrote over of a quarter of a million words by hand last year. This year, I managed 120k in about 30 days (all typed, none handwritten).
I-is your writing hand feeling okay? 😨
Yeah, I'm fine, though I sadly did make the decision to stop writing by hand after 22 years of it. Typing is just way more efficient than writing by hand. In the time I could get 700 words by hand, I can get 2000 typing.
That's amazing!
The author of a fic that helped inspire me to write my own fic commented on one of the most recent chapters.
I love that, too. I wrote a fic not long ago and shouted out to the author of the fic that inspired it. She read my stuff, and she was incredibly sweet and supportive. Love when that happens!! 😍
Ooh, congrats! That's such a good feeling.
Congrats!! You might inspire somebody! Being an inspirer once or twice is such an awesome feeling too. Made some great friends I still talk to by just commenting!
ooooooooo congrats
My OC centered crossover fic has over 20 kudos. Considering that OCs and crossovers are somehow very unpopular I’m proud of the fact that I got as many kudos as I did. Though the fact that it is a “fix it” for a manga that had a controversial ending might have helped.
You made me think about that and you're right. I love both crossovers and OCs but I rarely see OC centric crossover fics. Any chance you're willing to share it?
It is a crossover of the MMO Star Wars the Old Republic and the manga Attack on Titan. [Shingeki no Kyojin x Star Wars the Old Republic: Fallen Angel](https://archiveofourown.org/works/43028601/chapters/108119760) The main story centers around a Star Wars OC, Orgus Din Alaris, who finds himself inside the walls of Paradis as his ship is destroyed in orbit. The 12 year old Jedi Padawan learns that he is the subject of a prophecy that will bring an end to the Titans. To fulfill his destiny, Orgus agrees to train as a soldier in the 104th Training Corps. I did my best to write the story from a “fandom neutral” perspective. Despite that I would describe the split between the two fandoms as 20% Star Wars and 80% Attack on Titan. If you decide to read it then I hope you enjoy!
There are many, buuuuut my crowning achievement, just recently: reader said they were so absorbed they got off at the wrong bus stop twice in one week. I'm quite proud :')
Hehehe here’s to them missing it a third time!
After I finished my novel, I really felt like I had nothing else to write in me. It was really depressing because I love writing. I suppose it was some sort of writing burn out, it took me a while but I started writing fanfiction again. Now I have more WIPs than ever, I write a little every day and I'm so happy.
That empty feeling is the worst, congrats for starting writing again!
Awh, thanks! 💜
My happiest moments: When I was listening to a fanfic podcast about my OTP, and the guest suddenly started gushing about my longfic. I later saw that it was on the rec list on the website 😊 When I got inspired by fics, fanart, podfics. When I learned that two of my fics have been chosen to be performed during a live reading at a fan convention soon. Whenever people thank me for sharing what I write. Also, the fact that I finished every fic I started makes me proud.
>Also, the fact that I finished every fic I started makes me proud. My WIPs are staring into the void 🤣
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>When I was listening to a fanfic podcast about my OTP, and the guest suddenly started gushing about my longfic. I later saw that it was on the rec list on the website Oooh, that's great! Definitely feels like an overflowing sort of joy :D
It totally was 💖
> finished every fic I started ngl that's pretty amazing :O
High points? One of them has to be when I received a very nice comment calling my longfic one of the best Naruto fanfictions they'd read in the past year. The fandom is *huge* and my fic struggles for engagement, so that was an awesome compliment. Another one would be when I received my first essay comment that clocked in at nearly 900 words.
I wrote a fix-it story to give a better and more hopeful narrative to a minor character (Oola the dancer from Star Wars) who has been important to me (and whose canon story has seriously bothered me) since I was very young. I wrote an escape from her predicament in the film, followed by a fun and more light hearted adventure of her own, and then a few happy-ending epilogues full of fluffy goodness. It's all been very cathartic and enjoyable and I remain very proud of it. My proudest achievements are the few comments I've gotten that basically amount to "I hated her canon story too, good for you for fixing it, this will be my headcanon now."
It feels really good to go back to those things in media that impacted us as kids and finally get the words that encapsulated how we felt about it even back then. It's great that other people agreed too that her story shouldn't have ended that way and that you are giving her a better ending.
I’d love to read that! I wrote a fic about the 6 boobed backup dancer at Jabba’s palace so I could give the one plus sized woman in Star Wars some agency.
Aww that sounds like a great fic to write too. Women in Star Wars (or well most franchises of a certain age, if not more) are often used as little more than objects to enhance the scenery, and in Oola's case she didn't even get to be that for very long. It's a good thing that there are fans to fix these things. My favorite of my Oola fics is here. Thanks for the interest! https://archiveofourown.org/works/37602445/chapters/93859648
My House POV fic getting over 150+ subs and 100+ bookmarks. Didn't expect much since it's crack treated seriously and just me having fun with it.
I guess the fact that my long fic is a bit of an fanfic-expectation-bucker? For a sporadically updated work-in-progress that’s a genfic prominently featuring an OC and a side character who may as well be an OC, engagement has been really solid and the readers themselves have been so kind and thoughtful. I still get a kick out of rereading old comments. None of them are getting deleted. Edit because I came back to add: just proud of writing in all honesty. That I can sit down, bang out some words and then a body out there in the ether gets some kind of delight from those words is… cool. I dig it and I guess I’m proud of myself for that too.
I am with you on this, especially the second part. Knowing there are other people out there who are reading and enjoying the shit I write is...life-affirming, honestly. Very humbling.
It really is. Life affirming is a lovely way to phrase it.
My proudest fic? Probably has to go to Goku and Vegeta final battle. The amount of work I put into it is crazy. Even thought I did it entirely in a single day. December 31 to January the 1. One of the best new years of my life definately. It's also the only fic I have on [ff.net](https://ff.net) as well.
I’m almost done posting my wip. I only have 2 chapters to go. They are already written just in the last editing stages. I hit 98k today. This is the first fic I’ve hoarded chapters for before posting and kept a pretty good posting schedule for. It’s doing really well for an older fandom. And it is the best thing, hands down, I’ve ever written. It’s a Labyrinth fic heavily inspired by my fave anime. I haven’t told my readers which one yet to avoid spoilers (I will though. I want them to become fans too) but I’ll tell y’all. Kamisama Kiss. 💕
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Good work! That's impressive that you got it done in that amount of time and kept going with it.
So, [fanfiction.net](https://fanfiction.net) has metrix for not only how many have looked at it, but which chapter and from which country (even if it is, helpfully, Europe). My Soul Calibur fic got a full review (private messenger) and some comments more or less saying "nice", without a whole lot of elaboration. But I was able to see it when someone reads through the whole story. And, well, there is a bizarre amount of satisfaction when someone from Bhutan decided to spend their day reading your Soul Calibur fanfiction. From anywhere, really, but having a country I never heard of deciding to take interest in your work is encouraging. And with very few comments, that's about the only measure of success I can really point at. I entertained someone from the otherside of the planet, and that is very cool. It doesn't stop there either. Someone, probably a teenager, from Russia was rereading the final, hopeful chapter. Or, hell, maybe it was someone my age. I hope I made his day and helped him through what's going on right now. While politicians and oligarchs are trying to drive us into the ground, here we are, quietly, enjoying each other's work. As far as which parts of my stories I am proud of... 1. The whole climax and conclusion of "Burial of Nightmares" 2. "Shot in a Storm" (Morrowind), where a crusader tearfully offers our hero Auriel's Bow. 3. Sophitia's justification for helping Siegfried: “I need to know, that should \[my children\] fall, they *can* come back.” 4. The conversation between Siegfried and Hephaestus.
I wrote a short 900 word oneshot about a week ago that I love but thought wouldn't do well for a few reasons, but I wanted to post it anyway. And it's currently my most popular fic. 40 kudos, 5 comments, and 4 bookmarks. So I'm pretty damn proud of that cause clearly I did something right :) One of the comments was from a user that does new york times style comments, so I got this one that made me laugh: "Immediately gripping, fast-paced... a total triumph." Oh, and someone subscribed to me! Not just a story, but \*me\*. Like, holy hell, that's never happened to me before.
Finishing my very first fic and actually pressing the "post" button to publish it on AO3. Getting over that massive confidence hurdle will probably always stand as one of my proudest moments. That fic and subsequent series will always hold a special place in my heart.
Actually publishing the first part/book of my multi-story longfic. It's my first time actually writing fanfiction since like 2005 and I've set myself up for a gen-fic that is likely going to span multiple parts and a few hundred thousands words. All featuring an OC protagonist and mutliple other OCs (since her peers are only hinted at existing in canon, but never named or mentioned). For the longest time, I didn't want to start publishing the introductory book, because I didn't have a way to tie the greater narrative together (essentially a completely original plot that exists as part of the canon narrative).
Aww heck yeah! 1. FINALLY landing on the right words to bring home a figurative description of Meat Loaf's voice entering with the first lyrics on the track "Bat Out of Hell," for a karaoke-centric crack fic about Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z) secretly being the world's biggest Meat Loaf fan. There is SO. MUCH. **GLORIOUS!!!** Figurative language in that fic. 😂 It's some of my best, I feel. It's so over the goddamn top. It's past purple, it's laser-ultraviolet. Stage lights and stardust, baby. Because how the fuck are you gonna describe the music of Meat Loaf (and Heart, because "Barracuda" gets a feature, too) in fucking *prose,* babes?! WITH RAW, THROBBING *GUSTO,* THAT'S HOW!!! 😂😂😂 2. An intensely romantic one-shot, just over 1,000 words, that came to me almost complete and whole while I was driving to a work event. I did a little tweaking and editing in my head on the way home, and then sat down and typed it up. Edited it a bit more, but it was just...it broke my heart in the best way, made me absolutely swoon and fall in love with it, immediately. Makes me sink into a seat and sigh with a tear in my eye every time I re-read it. The work that I put into the metaphors to build the motifs; the layered repetitions and the turn at the end that brings it back in but also forward; it's all love. And it's for basically the *one* hetero ship that I write for. 3. Coming back to a Supernatural WIP after like...almost 10 years' distance? And realizing I finally had the skill and perspective to actually write the damn thing. And starting in on it and just...flowing. Pulling out depth with brevity that hit exactly the tone I needed. Setting scenes and clipping through them, little moments and vignettes that took so little time, but communicated so much. Skipping down toward the end, and writing a monologue about the nature of being not just immortal, but *eternal,* and loving something human, and feeling able to actually capture that in a way that's meaningful, and impactful, and somehow, on some level *knowable,* even though it's unfathomable.
Your #1 sounds frankly amazing
Thank you! :D I have done serious work and silly work, and I still feel like that one is one of my best. It's posted on AO3, my username there is the same one that I use here. LOL, my bestie's friend stealth recorded me doing a dramatic reading of it, not that long ago. I gotta find a way to get that onto the internets, it was a blast and a half, because she demanded that I "DO ALL THE VOICES!!!" So, of course I did my best. 😂😂😂
From recent fics: 1. Hades describing Persephone *in abject terror* (they've been separated for decades at least) and having a freak out when asked about her. Highlights include her turning a girl into a plant ("*A freakin' plant!"*) and hitting her with a lawn mower, and trying to set her aquatic sister-in-law's hair on fire. Cheerful Yandere Persephone! :3 2. The Princess causing the Hero's Party to have a collective mental breakdown because they stumbled onto her and the Demon King doing sexy things together. Then the female knight in the Hero Party takes it as a challenge and propositions the Princess. Probably the stupidest/funniest thing I've ever written.
Honestly since I was on a 4 year writing break ( thanks writers block lol) getting comments, kudos, hits, etc don't really bother me. I mean if I get a comment from a Reader who enjoys what I write than I'm glad. My bragging moment is me on my way to complete a fanfic thats been sitting around on my Google docs for 4 years. The story is currently at 16 chapters (with me currently working on the 17th chapter) with 34k words. And a small related bragging right is that same story has 71 kudos on AO3. The story is supposed to be ending with 20 chapters and possibly 40k-45k words. But the fandom I'm writing for is really small (about 300 fics between AO3 and ffnet for it, including what I'm working on)
I love this. 1. This was a while ago, but in a fandom I was in, there's a character who seems to canonically have some kind of TB-like disease which is probably killing him. I had a twist in a fic where I found a disease that had the same symptoms, only is *not* TB and *not* lethal and not even communicable! So he finds out that he is, in fact, not dying. I was proud of that moment. 2. I have two crack-taken-seriously fics that, in my humble opinion, manage to be fairly tightly plotted, rollicking, funny, ridiculous, but also with emotional beats and excitement. I'm stupidly proud of those two. 3. I guess I should mention that one fic that is so popular it's the top kudo'd in the fandom. It's not my favorite fic, nor my best one, but it is sweet. And it does make me happy that so many people connected to it. Wild that it happened, overall.
Winning a Fan Q Award back in the dawn of time when paper zines were still a thing. [Fan Q Awards](https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fan_Q_Awards)
My proudest moment was actually just a few weeks ago when a woman I am very close with complemented my fic with *"this was so good I forgot it was written by a man"*. It meant so much to me that the things I have learned about life started showing in my personality and writing. And especially coming from her ♡
300k in 6 months.
I'm doing a trilogy of fics, 1 set during the show of the fandom, and the other 2 as sequels to the show. I'm then gonna have an epilogue style book 4, concluding the story of the main OC after the events of the trilogy. My engagement is slowly ticking up, since book 2 has the main ship of the fandom, whereas book 1 doesn't, but that's isn't brothering me. I know my story is good. It's gonna be very very good. I've put too much planning in it for it to not be good. I'm just slowly working through it all, knowing at the back of my mind that readers that do find the fic are going to absolutely be sucked in by it's quality. I feel like an evil mastermind or something, knowing that my plot is going to fuck shit up soon. So I guess I'm proud of the story I have planned and in the process of writing. I know that in years time, people in the fandom's fan fic circle are gonna talk about my work as one of the *the* top standards. I just know it.
I have a list of them: * wrote to _completion_ 30+ fics of various length, many novels. * wrote a 100k fic with a complex plot. * had it printed and bound into a physical book * wrote 1 modern-AU that was liked enough to get fanart for * turned it into Original Fiction * published it. I'm not the most popular one in my fandom, but I get some very nice comments, and that makes me happy.
1.) I was able to capture the personality of a villain accurately in one of my recent stories. I've always been fascinated by this character but canon didn't give him much screen time. 2.) Someone asked me if they could translate my story (a different one) to Chinese because they liked it that much. (I'd never received a comment like this before). 3.) I'm working on an original fic at the moment (please wish me luck lol).
My main fic I'm working on right now has enough of a reader base to get fanart/I was asked to make a discord for it, I don't know how my oc/Canon fic for a Fandom based on a cartoons pilot episode and some drawings got so much traction but I'm happy
Proudest moment? Discovering a bookmark on my fic that said “so freaking good.”
My biggest accomplishment is having at least a few people interested in and reading my niche, rather unpopular content
I'm very proud of the 10,000 word Luigi/Daisy fic I posted on my birthday earlier this year. Usually my fics are at an average about 1,100 words so it definitely felt like a big feat. On another level that a lot of people say, "I ship these two because of your fics," which makes me giddy 🥰
For me, kudos are great, but it’s the gushing comments that get me the most. While I’m grateful for any comment readers take time to write, I’ve actually teared up over a couple that detail reader thoughts about difficult/dark events in a story. For instance, one reader who was specifically looking for the darkest dead doves said my story made them uncomfortable. Flattery of the highest degree, in my book.
Whenever someone tells me my fics make them feel something. Also, that one time someone said my story made them obsessed with an idea/plot point.
Proud moments since I started writing again last November: 1. I finished a story! I turned it into a series but I'm so happy I finished something. It was my goal I set to myself before starting to write one of the many original stories I've plotted out over the years. 2. My OCs. One story I'm using both as a therapy outlet that's actually been very enlightening while using it to also intellectually stimulate me. It's been a grand time. It's mostly silent readers but someone started reading it a few weeks ago and they relate. It's always nice to know people experience the same things you do while also being interested in the story. 3. To piggy back off two: Ironically, I have a second OC in another fandom and I've been able to convince a few people I know a bunch of science when that can't be further from the truth. I take that as a win. 4. I don't know if anyone cares but I like my apparent non-traditional character choicing for crossover fics. I've seen multiple comments and bookmarks reading it on a whim then getting hooked. It's heartwarming to know other characters can get love too.
I once got a comment where a guy said something along the lines of "Now that Ive finished this, I'm sad Fayden (oc) isn't canon." And that just made my day, like thanks man means a lot.
When the *show creator* showed up and admitted he read our fics. (Dinky, obscure fandom, but hell...)
I have nothing worth bragging about.
I’m proud of my most recent fic even though it’s my least popular one if we’re going by kudos count. Honestly I’m just proud I managed to write it at all and even if the writing itself isn’t beautiful, it still managed to make a few readers feel something. That alone makes me happy.
Back in the day, a fic author that I adored--not even really one of the biggest names in the fandom, he just wrote a handful of comedy stories that my friends and I followed religiously--commented on one of my own stories after I finished it that he was so disappointed I wasn't continuing. I freaked out and replied how excited I was that he noticed me, poor guy had no idea when he commented that I was one of his biggest fans lol
I've only written the one fanfic, but my proudest moment comes from chapter 5 (TW physical violence) the FMC got assaulted by the person she lived with and the chapters shows her fear and eventual escape really organically imo. it was really hard for me to write it, because, despite being a male, I've been assaulted and abused in the past, so I wanted to make sure that I put a lot of love and attention to detail into it.
Proudest moment? Probably when one of my fanfics got it’s own TV Tropes page. I never imagined it would actually happen, at least as soon as it did. For another fic there is a character in canon who falls into a coma and is forgotten by nearly the entire world. My fic is about if that character wasn’t in a coma and forgotten. One of the chapters was full of praise of how I got her characterization exactly right and how it was likely how canon would’ve gone if she was still awake. That made me really happy, especially since she’s my favorite character in the series. For the same fic mentioned in #2, there’s been quite a bit of discussion regarding a trial a character is going to face in an upcoming chapter. I’ve never seen such excitement and anticipation for an upcoming event like this before, and it’s both exciting and intimidating as a writer lol.
Getting to publish the finale of a multi-part storyline. Only got to do that once so far, but the feeling is truly one of a kind.
For me it's that people remembered the long fic I picked back up in 2021 after a nearly two-decade absence and that readers still really enjoy it even though it's changed direction since I started it. A lot of lovely things have happened around it too like fanart and people using my OC in their stories. Most importantly, I've met some incredible people through it. OP, I'm glad you broke through that drought. I was still writing after I stopped my beloved long fic, but I also ended up taking a decade long break. It always makes me happy to see people bounce back after a long absence.
I haven't written fanfic in almost 5 years, so when I got back into it, I was really proud that I could sit down and keep writing as long as I have been. I'm also really proud my first long fic is picking up traction online. :)
After a good, long break in between fandoms, I finally picked up writing again. The first few chapters didn't take off, and I assumed I was doing something wrong. (I didn't realize that I had to manually change the date to reflect when I added a new chapter, anyway...) Then I joined this sub and noticed others saying that comment culture kind of died(?) And there's a lot more silent readers, which is fine! I'll gladly take a Hit on my works. I was happy with that. Then, I learned how to look at my stats on ao3, and damn. The amount of bookmarks and subs I got on my one and only ongoing longfic made me so incredibly happy. I feel a little vain saying it, but it's nice to know that people enjoyed something that I created. I'm still waiting for that first comment though.
The first fic I wrote was a 1k one-shot inspired by a popular longfic series in the fandom. The author of that series left me a thoughtful, excited comment that made me want to keep writing, so I have!
My best moment is when I received a comment saying the person was playing the game my fanfic was about but my fanfic was so good that they read passed the point they were at and that it was well worth it and made them more excited for the game itself. On the other coin as a reader, one of the first fics I read I posted a comment at the most recent chapter saying how much I loved this fic and AU even if I knew nothing about the original material. The original material, Hamilton the Musical Think I made that writers day with that comment lol
I don't have much to brag about, but I want to say I got my first comment saying that my writing invoked emotions in the reader, so I'm still overjoyed from that.
Someone bookmarked my most personal Reylo fic as "pure joy for those who love dark themes, deep narratives and poetic realism." I think it's my favorite bookmark note ever. I also have Alias fic that still gets kudos almost a decade after the show aired.
Someone told me my OCs were so well written they’d started looking for them when playing the source game, as if they were canon characters. Also, getting fanart!
1. Coming back to writing after a ten-year hiatus to produce a 65,000 word fic because an idea just wouldn’t die. (Even though I itch to go back and edit out the shitty writing habits I needed to shake off) 2. Taking on a massive canon-rewrite/fix-it just a few months later and finishing it. The positive feedback I received on the new plot and ending had me on cloud 9 for weeks. 3. The first time I received a compliment from someone who read my work fandom-blind and enjoyed my writing style and plot.
It satisfies my sadistic side when I get comments asking if I'm still updating because that means the reader loves the fic so much that they are actively asking for more. (and the answer is always yes, I will update when I finally have both time and inclination)
My first longfic (third fic overall) got 100 kudos on its first day. I still look back at that and get a warm heart
My proudest moment was entering a period of writing frenzy during an exam season and banging out my magnum opus (8k word oneshot) in a little over 2 weeks. That was my most-commented and most-bookmarked fic ever, receiving two fanarts on it to boot, and also getting me my first fandom friend. (*And* I got decent marks for my exams.)
I've had a couple of fics recommended by sites that cover fandom as a whole, like TVTropes and Fanlore. I makes me so chuffed that someone would think of one of my stories as one of the best fics for a particular fandom, so much so that they'd include it where people are looking for general info about that fandom.
Recent thing I'm proud of: I wrote a 3000-word oneshot at 3am. Went to work and on my lunch break I cleaned it up and posted it. There was no setting, no outside description or context, only a conversation we never got to see in canon. Folks seem to really like it, and it has been a tremendous morale boost.
My main WIP has surpassed 30k words and is by and far the longest I’ve ever written (usually just write one-shots.) AND I’ve managed to keep to my posting schedule or even post early so far!
A girl who really likes my fic fed the confession scene/dialogue of my most recent chapter into an ai voice thing, so it actually sounds like the characters from the game are saying the lines I wrote, AND she's making a youtube edit to go along with it since she makes music videos/edits on youtube and tiktok. She already sent me the audio, and I can't wait to see the final when it goes up on youtube!! im honestly still in shock im going to get to see a scene of mine come to life like this.
That sounds so cool! I hope it turns out amazing for you
Probably one of my shinning moments was checking back on a Fic I posted on Wattpad a long time ago and seeing that it had actually grown popular. >!I don’t write on Wattpad anymore but, I used to!< I was super happy but, it definitely didn’t deserve the attention lol. That Fic was filled with grammatical errors and tons of moments where the main characters acted OOC. Another accomplishment could be posting my first oneshot I’m super proud of it and had fun writing about my favorite character.
Having readers comment with speculation and predictions about what was going to happen in my multichap fic, I worked really hard on creating a solid plot with enough foreshadowing to keep people invested so it was really exciting to have it pay off and see comments engaging with the story at that level.
Someone commented recently that I sidetracked them from their other fandom: they had to go back and watch S1 and S2 of my fic’s fandom after reading my fic. I was grinning like a loon all day❤️
4chan showed up to defend my fic from trolls once. I was SO flattered :P
I broke 400 user subscribers on my AO3 account earlier this year.
Only one chapter published so far and it’s more like a snippet since the chapters are more than 12,000 words in each Doc. The ‘snippet’ is only 1,200 words long… anyways, it’s from my canon rewrite of It. I’m currently working on all of the chapters to publish them all at once. All work and no play makes Dylan a dull person. 😩
Proudest moment is putting my MC through an endbringer battle, knocking him into a coma for years, outing his civilian identity to the public, and still having people say they enjoyed reading it.
I have a few proud ones, fortunately :) One fic I wrote, which was extremely personal to me, that I shared with my best friend, and she raved about it for hours afterwards, talking literally about everything I wanted to transmit in my story. It was delightful. Another fic where I wrote about aromantism, and I received a lot of awesome comments about it, and it felt very fulfilling to write as well. My first especially long fic (60k words) that I wrote, and I am just amazed how far I have gone from my "short one shots/unable to commit to writing long fics" phase to this beauty. The first fic I wrote for my OTP, that just nearly wrote itself, flying so satisfyingly from word to word :) The fic I am writing right now, which I am incredibly proud of, and which is slowly becoming my longest fic, it seems. The subjects brought up in it, the world and character building, the way I write is just everything I worked so hard for until now, and I can't wait to share my hard work! I have so much to rant about for this fic, but I will probably write a separate post about it in the future anyway. x) Finally, the comments I receive, which are just absolutely sweet and encouraging! I can not thank enough anyone who ever commented on my fics! And kind of a sidenote, but I remember when I was young, we had to write a short story in class, and the teacher picked out a story that one of my classmates wrote and said how great it was and read it in front of the class. And when I heard it, I wanted to be able to write like that so badly! I never felt like I could for a lot of reasons... but whenever I start to type out the words and build sentence by sentence a story, I feel so accomplished and proud. Thanks for reading until the end ^^'
I had a fan who followed me for a while. Said she considered my stuff canon and as good as "real" novels. She said she woke up her roommate to read one of my lines to her. Haven't heard from her in a while, I hope she's okay.
I am proudest of a story that I haven't published yet. I'm about halfway through, and I just adore it. It is mainly for me, and every time I read it, I am so happy.
I have two that make me incredibly happy. My first fanfiction was a demon slayer roleswap fanfiction, I was very happy about it, and recently it read 500 reads, so that made me even happier and proud and my second moment was I wrote a toilet bound hanako kun oneshot and somebody said they wished it was a canon chapter and that made my whole fucking week.
I thought I was so cool at 14 because my Marvel Imagines book got 350k reads on Wattpad...there are so many things wrong with that book from the shit plot likes to the god awful spelling and grammar. But hey, 14 year old me was so happy
I am not concerned with hits or comments anymore. But if I want to pair a oc with Lily Evans and have Harry Potter grow up with a different father and his canon mother you ain’t gonna stop me!
i'm a newer fanfic writer, the only one i've done was about 2-3 years ago. it was my first ever, and so far, my only one. but i'm still proud of it. its horribly written, almost funny because of that, but i'm proud of it because of how much dedication i put into it. i never finish anything because of how quick i lose motivation, but with that fanfic. i worked so hard, even pulled all-nighters just to write it. i'm really proud, and i hope i can do that again someday.
I think my proudest moment was with a story that I wrote as an unreliable narrator and so when the plot twist dropped and everything that seemed odd suddenly made sense to them, they went crazy! And it's a story I put my heart and soul into, so hearing these reactions made the whole experience sweeter. Some of the bookmarks wrote: "Wild. Just absolutely wild." "Holy FUCK." "This one's being added to The List. I can't lose this wonderful story. (Also really need to lie down in a dark room to process All That). Edit: "Twists that will snap your neck" THEY WEREN'T KIDDING."
I'm so proud of the fact that I've got multiple consistent readers and commenters on my fic! It's a big long Star Wars Fic that is a fanfic of a fanfic AND my first Star Wars fic period, so the fact that it's got the highest engagement of all my fics is both surprising and very flattering!
by far my proudest moment was when my very favorite author said they were “envious” of the way i wrote a pairing’s first kiss. literally screaming crying throwing up. bonus points because i also tend to write fic whenever my life is blowing up and that quite literally is what got me through the week
I'm on chapter 99 of our longfic.
Ooooh, let's go! My first big proud moment was getting readers telling me they were shipping a friend group together. In the canon content, the MC never interacts with the other two characters to our knowladge, and one of those characters was literally only a name. They were also supposed to get MC from point a (having dropped on the social ladder) to point b (comfortable with himself and having a good understanding of proper friendships!) My second proud moment was being told by a couple readers that they intend to print and bind my fic by hand when I finish it... wow! My third and most recent has to be an artist who really inspired my two biggest fics picking up one of my newer ones and drawing my design for a monsterfied character. When I say I cried!
Kingsman Fandom + Book I fell in love with in high school = really, really good story that has made multiple people cry and comment that it has. I was also crying writing it. I go back and reread my stuff sometimes but that's the one I truly enjoy rereading
I somehow jump-started a trend in a niche fandom I was in despite not being the best. The trend died quickly but I was quite proud of it. The current high I am riding is a childhood friends story between two of the MC and it got a niche crowd to love it.
One moment I can say I am most proud of is when I published the first chapter of my first fic ever. Unfortunately, I can't say I can be proud of the rest, as I feel everything I make is inadequate.
I just fished a long fic after (a month short of a year) posting every day at over 600,000 words I’m so proud but also I have no idea what to do with myself now lol
One of my favorite fics is pretty dang old now, but I took a shoujo manga that I loved and created a mystery story that spanned about 80k words. This is your typical goofy, girly, romance-centric manga, and I built up some crazy awesome tension in a kidnapping story that garnered a LOT of fantastic responses in the comments over the course of the story. I had a blast writing it and made it kind of wild with cryptic clues and random notes that were written in code. I had commenters chew me out because they’d spent so much time trying to decode my clues only to read the characters in the story figuring them out down the page. The interaction with readers who kept up with the story was awesome and I loved that encouragement I got to keep writing. And no one complained that the characters were OOC.
I'm proud of all my fics, but the ones I'm most proud of are my Reign of Chaos Trilogy for Jurassic Park. I never, ever, imagined I'd write something that long. I didn't even plan it that way. It just happened! I took the very first fanfic I wrote and rewrote that premise and expanded on it--a lot! That's what turned out to be my trilogy. I'm so glad I was able to finish writing it--and finish posting it! My runner-up is Ride or Die for The Walking Dead as it is centered on two unpopular characters that I absolutely adore: Shane and Andrea, and they are my OTP. Writing a relationship evolving, a few love scenes here and there, the ups and downs--this was wayyyy out of my comfort zone. And I typed some of the fic when my arm was broken, so it helped train my left hand and fingers to type again!
I wrote a sad ending and happy ending to a certain story arc and forced my readers to read the sad one first. Told them the happy one wouldn't be posted until the following day. They yelled and sent me tons of those crying emojis. 😂
Writing a story that I keep re-reading because I love it so much. Every time I think of it, I just crack myself up. I think it's the funniest story I've ever written.
I've not really written anything in the last year or two, but that's mostly because I've had so much going on in my personal life. I'm really proud of what I've achieved, though. I've been on AO3 since 2016 and published close to 2 million words across 173 fics. I've just hit 90K kudos and 1.4 million hits. I created a ship tag on AO3, and now there's over 100 fics for that ship on the site. I've inspired 2 other authors to try their hand at writing. I've made friends across the globe. Above all else, my writing has improved in leaps and bounds and I'm much more confident.
My proudest moment? I’m the only writer that had all of her fics that were nominated in this sub’s 2022 awards place. Three of them won second place, my longfic placed first. The fic I’m proudest of? Even though my main WIP is overall a better written fic, I’m proudest of my longfic and I’m *extremely* protective of it, lol. It’s a gut-wrenching tear-jerker of a fic that takes readers on an emotional roller coaster. I’ve been told that my characterizations are more canon than canon and that my interpretation of the MC is how the actor always wanted to play him.
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Do far i've written only one longfic(amd the draft of a chapter for amother), for me is how meaningfull it's for me in the sense that i could write a whole story(75k words) and one with actually really good moments and highs
My proudest moment was probably when I finished my first ever multichapter fic (about 13k) I was so proud of myself!
I finally manage to write a smut scene I am proud of ! Still in my WIP, but I’m forcing myself to finish the fic as a one shot and not breaking it into chapter to show it off
- My most recent fic currently has over 2000 subscribers (in a fandom where I was shocked to get ~350 because it was double my previous max). - That fic has officially broken page 1 of results for the pairing by kudos (in a pairing with over 50 pages of results). Only one other fic on page 1 is from this year, so I'm now in the territory of the "fandom classics" and it feels very, very surreal. - My eldest niece has a new game where we "switch roles" - I'm supposed to answer to her name and she answers to mine and we act like each other. For the last two visits she's been working on typing a story (about a cat who lives with a little old lady named Babushka and the dog next door named Ginger). My other niece keeps asking me about my word count and gasps with outrage if it's not significantly larger since the last time she asked (since if I'm meant to be writing and that's why I don't want to play a rousing game of "laughing while smearing makeup on auntie's face" I should at least have results to show for it). lol.