[ SECRET POST #2737 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2737 ⌋

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Comments

I don't really understand what you're trying to say here

[(Anonymous)]

Your friend publishes original fic that's poorly edited, so nobody deserves to be paid for their fanfiction? Those two ideas have a tenuous connection at best and it's not really the cause-and-effect relationship you seem to be suggesting.

Re: I don't really understand what you're trying to say here

[(Anonymous)]

This, I found this secret to be really confusing.

Re: I don't really understand what you're trying to say here

[kallanda_lee]

That's what I got out of it, too.

Re: I don't really understand what you're trying to say here

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I don't really get what OP's trying to say.

Re: I don't really understand what you're trying to say here

[(Anonymous)]

What they're trying to say is:

Quit bitching about not being able to be paid for fanfiction when you can write original fiction and get paid for that.

That's what I got from it. And I agree.

Re: I don't really understand what you're trying to say here

[(Anonymous)]

If earning money through writing were that easy, there'd be no struggling writers, anon. I'd also like to point out that in this very secret, OP's writer friend isn't making enough money with her original fiction to afford editing. So the message is more like: quit complaining about not getting paid for fanfiction when you can not get paid for original fiction.

Which still doesn't make sense, but there you go.

Re: I don't really understand what you're trying to say here

[(Anonymous)]

This read to me more like: I really like this author who doesn't put the time and effort into writing good, well thought out, edited stories, so no one will publish her and she just makes ebooks which no one buys instead. So I channel my anger that should be at her to writers who do put the effort in to write amazing stories that people would be willing to pay for and wish they could make a living off this work they enjoy doing.

No in the fan fiction community I don't see very much of this "I wish I could get paid for this" attitude. But when someone points out that there isn't much of a difference between fan art and fan fiction, and therefore there is a double standard there; I get it.

I don't care about being paid for my fan fiction, or I wouldn't write it. I put just as much effort into my fan fiction as I do with my original, however. The thing that really bothers me about these conversations is when people act like these are so different or that using pre-existing characters makes writing somehow easier.

It really changes nothing. You have much more freedom when you are creating your own characters and worlds. IF you are creating a world, it takes a bit more time to make sure that world follows it's own basic rules as well as the basic rules of physics. But creating characters? That's cake. It doesn't take any time at all. It happens naturally as you write the story.

Re: I don't really understand what you're trying to say here

[(Anonymous)]

seriously, we're all here cos we all think we're shit. if we stopped thinking we were shit, we'd probably at least tentatively venture into publishing original works. i have honestly never seen a fanficcer moan about how they should be paid for their fanfics.

Re: I don't really understand what you're trying to say here

[(Anonymous)]

But OP's friend is writing original fiction and not getting paid for it. That's, like, the main thrust of the secret. It's why OP is annoyed, because fanfic writers wanna get paid for what they're doing when her friend isn't getting paid for what she's doing.

It's basically "if my friend can't have it, no one can!"

Re: I don't really understand what you're trying to say here

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm starting to wonder if it's a Confusion Troll.