[ SECRET POST #2755 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2755 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Creator Thumbprints

[hands4healing]

According to my published author friends, nightmares in original fic are not considered good form. Weirdly, I just never wrote any in my original fic, but my fanfic is rife with them.

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[icecheetah]

Huh... I never heard of that. Care to elaborate?

I am the same. In fanfic I write elaborate nightmares that often times are the bits that I have the most fun in writing, and serve a purpose that further's the plot. In original fic, I just don't come up with them in the first place. I can't seem to think of a place they'd fit.

Re: Creator Thumbprints

[hands4healing]

When I suggested adding nightmares to the stories I was beta-reading, I was told 'it's not done'.

I love writing nightmares!

Re: Creator Thumbprints

[icecheetah]

I will have to investigate. Though probably not at 2am.
(And I have an example of original,mostly written, fiction where nightmares are important. Fallen London).

Yay!

Re: Creator Thumbprints

[hands4healing]

Enjoy your investigations.

Don't know Fallen London, except that it exists? But I'm sure there are always exceptions.

Indeed!

Re: Creator Thumbprints

[icecheetah]

Thank you. (and good night)

One of the few truths in writing.

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[jaybie_jarrett]

Honestly a lot of writing communities do that in my experience. They'll find a thing that CAN be done badly or is done badly by alot of beginners and then declare it bad writing. IMO it depends on how you do it. I think it's stupid to say you "just can't" write about something because someone thinks it can't be done well.

Hell I have a story that involves the protagonists being dreamhoppers (essentially) which means I'll have to be writing a TON of nightmares. I think people might have a thing about nightmares because some people don't know how to do nightmares well so it CAN turn out badly.

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[hands4healing]

From what I was told, that came down from the publisher(s).

Re: Creator Thumbprints

[jaybie_jarrett]

Ehhh.

Well still, it sounds like crappy lazy advice. A good critic IMO explains why you shouldn't do something or how to do it well. I've seen plenty of published books that utilized nightmares.