Kay045 - All Hail The Music Man

Me while writing: oh hell yes this is such a good sentence I'm the master of poetic imagery

The writing when I go back to edit:

Write Your Story

I just showed my 11-year-old son how many coffee shop AUs there are on AO3.

Why?

He sat down the other day to write a Minecraft story about three kids who go through a portal in their back yard and end up in the world of Minecraft where they have to battle all the big bosses (I didn’t even realize there WERE big bosses in Minecraft but that’s beside the point). He wrote three chapters with a little input from me – his first beta – and y'all?

He was fucking excited. To be writing a story.

Today he came home from school and seemed a little down, so I asked him about it only to find out that some little asshole at his school told him, “There is already a Minecraft story.”

Me: Okay? So what?

Lucifer: If there’s already a story, no one will read mine.

Immediately, I dragged him in and pulled up my AO3 account. My boys know I write fanfiction, so I showed him my account and how many subscribers I have. Then I showed him how many Teen Wolf stories there are. And then, because it seemed like the perfect analogy, I said, “What if I wrote a story where two characters meet in a coffee shop and fall in love? No werewolves, nothing at all to do with the actual Teen Wolf universe. Just Stiles and Derek meet in a coffeeshop and fall in love.”

He laughed.

I showed him Mornings Aren’t For Everyone. Showed him how many hits it had, how many kudos, how many lovely comments.

Then I said, “So do you think, if anyone else wrote a story about those exact same characters meeting in a coffee shop and falling in love… would anyone read it?”

He laughed and said, “No because you already did.”

So I clicked on the Sterek tag and refined to coffee shop AU. His mind was blown to see that they ALL had thousands of hits and kudos and comments. Then I clicked on JUST the coffee shop AU tag and showed him all the fics across all the fandoms written by countless different people.

I’m going to tell you all now what I told him because it applies to everyone.

Write your story. It doesn’t matter that someone else has written a story about that subject. They didn’t write YOUR story. Only you can do that.

And I want to read your story.

Dude

DUDE

fireheart: look i know he seems like a normal kit, but LISTEN he looks like his murderous father!! that means he’s got his father’s dark personality and he will definitely turn out like him. i mean look at his EYES!! there’s death in his eyes (•᷄- •᷅ ;)

bramblekit: *is a literal baby*

this accurately shows how it feels getting a comment, heart or reblog of your post/art. <3 :D

Tired: Cody is older than Rex.

Wired: Rex is older than Cody.

Rationalized: Regardless of who is older, Rex and Cody are both ten at the start of the Clone Wars. There's no reason they would look all that physically different from each other in age. They probably have a more twin-ish dynamic than anything over who's older.

Inspired: shut up logic and enjoy the cute young Cody & Rex art.

everything looks like a nail when you've got a hammer and every song is actually about the character when they're on your mind 24/7

it's kinda funny how nobody thinks you're a fundamentally evil sicko for like. enjoying media where characters kill each other in honestly pretty awful ways constantly. like that's just Normal Media Consumption to most people