RomancingTon

The first chapter of I’ll see you in the mud, my Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind fic, is now on AO3. I’ve been insanely excited about this one and I have loved the challenge of writing this story. Summary below. Enjoy! archiveofourown.org/works/65679430…

@brainrotbbygirl Respectfully

bridgerton siblings charlie and the chocolate factory au. lady danbury is willy wonka

@TradingGlances HELLO this is the most challenging and most insane thing lol

@romancington Oh hello! I love this.

#WIPWednesday for a day one PolinWeek fic

@Brave3001 Big compliment coming from you 💛

@romancington Omg I am LOCKED IN!!!!!

@HypomanicPaint 🧠 thank you 😭

@romancington Lemme kiss your brain

@_headphonesbaby Four idiots arguably lmao

@romancington I am foaming at the mouth!!! These two idiots 😭

@SinnaIsDead I’ve had this idea for so long and it’s been fun to stop and think about seriously.

@romancington OMG??? OMG???

This is also a great reminder not to give criticism (even if you view it as constructive or tactfully delivered) on any fic unless the author explicitly asks for it. Imagine being told you need to improve about hobby.

fanfiction writers are NOT employees and they are NOT producing content on a schedule for an audience. they are people writing for free in whatever small pockets of time they have between work, school, family, health, and everything else life throws at them. expecting someone to only start a fic if they can guarantee constant updates or “stay synchronized” with the story treats writing like an obligation instead of what it actually is for most of us, which is a hobby.

@brainrotbbygirl Get two of them because it’s about to be a Tuesday so Tuesday

a monday so monday i'm flirting with going to get a £6 baked good

Hi 👋 chapter 8 of this is live... things are starting to get a bit complicated 😬 archiveofourown.org/works/78419381…

I am not seeing enough first dance appreciation. Colin standing up for baby Pen shaped me into who I am today. He loved her here! And didn’t know it! She was proud of her little pink dress!

@Feryal_Niazi There are now 14 fics with that tag lmao

@romancington Add the tag to them all, let's pump up those numbers

I checked the tag Colin Bridgerton Wears Glasses, and there were only 13(!) fics under it. This is a blight upon our Polin nation, what are we even doing with our lives?! Add this to everything, I can't even look at you people right now. #polinfics

@MP23BV @_headphonesbaby Summary: idk there’s angst and smut guys

@romancington @_headphonesbaby Now this I can get behind. It always takes me SO LONG how to do the summary! Like I want the tone to match the theme of the fic but sometimes I just wanna write like “the one where Colin is a fucking idiot” and move on with my day

The second hardest thing is coming up with a title for a fic.

@pnlpbridgerton Tbh omegaverse worldbuilding has been fun as hell

@romancington Omegaverse worldbuilding? Sign me up 🚬

#WIPWednesday preparing for PolinWeek with something outside my comfort zone

@abvj322 @_headphonesbaby Do I include that this is a tale about self discovery and maturing into loving oneself? Do I include certain bits of background that are crucial to the story? Do I include its smut heavy? Who knows.

@romancington @_headphonesbaby Summaries are, indeed, the hardest

@_headphonesbaby Honey your summaries are great and you are miles better at utilizing this theory than me TRUST

@romancington Ikr. I follow this method but it does not work a lot of times but alas

@_headphonesbaby “Just take a snippet of the fic” do you think I have a single snippet that perfectly encapsulates the exact plot of my 78,000 word fic

@romancington Omg yes. I am the worst at those 😭 and I remember someone on Reddit saying if they don’t like the summary, they won’t read the fic. Like bro.