How to Write The Maze Runner Fanfiction ✓

50 | fanfic author problems

(holy crap, thanks for 100k???? wow???)

a list that represents the everyday struggles of being a fanfic author

•getting a brilliant idea. it's 3am

•bonus: having something important the next day

•feeling like you wrote a ton, but looking at the word count and seeing 200 words

•feeling like you wrote nothing, but looking at the word and seeing 1,200 words, meaning you wasted half the chapter on a filler/a single interaction between characters

•when your worst work gets the most attention

•knowing exactly what you want the scene to look like, down to the finest details like the amount of dust particles in the air, but then you actually write it and are like well. this sucks.

•playing the entire story out in your head. never writing it

•bonus: actually writing it, but never publishing it, so it just sits in your drafts and haunts you for the rest of your days

•watching or reading anything ever and imagining an au

•publishing a risky chapter and either frantically checking every single notification or hiding your phone/computer so you don't have to look at them

•spending days or weeks on a piece

•that feeling of disappointment after publishing a piece you worked really hard on and only getting 1 comment and 3 votes

•having a great idea for a new fic, but having seven half-finished fics already

•your story was debunked by things that happened recently in canon, so you get Those Comments saying "it didn't happen like this!!" or "this isn't true!!" and having to reply like "I KNOW OKAY I KNOW"

•having a vague idea, but not knowing how to start or finish it

•"i know what i want to write but i don't know HOW to write it"

•how many times can you put "said" in a single chapter??

•bonus: eventually coming up with ridiculous synonyms for "said" because you'd rather put a complicated word instead of using it

•under-explaining details because you know what the scene looks like, but then having to go back and add more after realizing that your readers don't

•the shower is the magical land of ideas. stuck on something?? take a shower. odds are it'll all piece together somehow

•having great ideas that you just CAN'T keep to yourself, or ones that you need to check over with someone to make sure they're realistic, but either none of your friends will understand or they read your fic so there will be spoilers

•when someone hates on your OC and you take it as a personal offense

•"oh no, this Thing reveals too many of my deepest, darkest secrets. time to backtrack"

•killing off a character and feeling either satisfaction that you'll never have to write them again or despondency because it's like killing off a part of yourself

•forgetting what you wrote earlier in the fic so your readers discover accidental plot holes or repeating concepts. oops

•"okay. i'm going to write." *checks phone* *ends up not writing at all*

•being in the middle of a really intense/sad scene and being in the element, but then something happens to interrupt and you make a dinosaur screech

•having That One Character who's your favorite

•"is this too much fluff?? what am i saying, there can never be too much fluff. bring on the fluff."

feel free to add more of your own because this was very fun to write and is hopefully totally relatable