romanamongthestars:

sirilikestowrite:

millennial-ring:

words-on-pages:

I’m telling you right now if you think authors only read your comment on their fic once you are dead wrong

#haha yeah#and sometimes if we’re having a bad day or feel like our writing is crap we’ll re-read and entire story’s worth of comments#to try to get back into writing mode (tags @sitabethel)

okay but i literally did exactly that today. i reread every single comment ever posted to haunted (both ff and ao3) before i sat down to write. 

i deleted all my fics and my account permanently almost two years ago but before i did i saved all the comments and to this day when i feel like shit i go through them and there’s one that’s just mostly keysmash and the reader screaming that i made them smile and cry at 4 am and it’s my favorite of the bunch and i smile like an idiot every single time i see it

i do this with wake up call a lot. and even all of my fics from previous fandoms. it just gives me hope that hey, maybe i don’t suck at this writing thing, i seem to be making people happy.

your feedback does a lot of positive things for us.