Reblog & Recommend Fanfic!

silktum:

I’ve seen a few posts around the tumblrverse reminding people that we should reblog art. And you’re damn right we should! Anyone who puts hours into anything deserves their work to be circulated as much as possible, and only reblogs can do that – not likes.

So, I’m here today to ask if we can please do the same for writers. 

Our work also takes hours. Writing an entire book takes months. AU’s in particular can take the longest, setting up your own universe but keeping everyone in character and trying to figure out just where they will fit.

Then there’s the actual writing. For 2-4k words (typical chapter) – you’re talking several hours with proof reads and paragraph rewrites. To give you an idea, my latest chapter took 6 hours for 3.6k words.

It isn’t trivial. Writers do this out of passion just like artists do.

But here’s the thing – writers get maybe 5% of the exposure compared to artists, because for their words to impress, a person has to first read them. 

The only way for a writer to gain more readers, more of a following, is for you to not only reblog their work, but to also recommend it to your followers. Encourage them to read it! It’s literally the only way writers have of becoming known, of gaining any kind of a fan base other than casual word-of-mouth. 

If you’d like to see your favourite fanfic writers continue to write, continue to grow, and maybe even look into publishing real books, then support them!

• Reblog their tumblr posts.

• Leave comments / reviews when they post a new chapter.

• Recommend their work – because unlike art, very few people will even “look” at their work unless prompted to do so.

They can’t do this alone. They need you.