[ SECRET POST #2763 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2763 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Some people need feedback to feel motivated to write because writing is more of a social activity to them than it is to other people.

Yes, thank you. I write stories for myself that I don't share with others, and I write stories that I do want to share with people. I like bonding over a shared fandom or mutual squee over a character, but if there's nobody who wants to bond/squee with me then a significant amount of my motivation is missing. I'd rather spend my time working on something else, then.

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DA

Yes, that's exactly how I am. I have some pure self-indulgence fic washing around in my brain and I might write it out from time to time, but the main reason I write fanfic is as a social activity.

I would keep a fanfic going with very little encouragement (and have!) but with none at all, it would be much less likely. Not because I feel entitled to comments, but for the same reason I wouldn't go to the bar or go bowling alone (though of course some people would). It's not even that I don't enjoy the thing -- I enjoy it enormously, but only with other people.

[sabotabby]

Agreed. The reason I finish fic and not original stuff is nearly always that I don't get as much feedback while writing original fiction. Whereas if I know people are reading, I feel a certain obligation to finish, but also a shared sense of community, which is even more important.

I don't quite understand quota/withholding updates—especially because I almost exclusively write long things that get clusters of comments at the beginning, clusters at the end, and barely anything in the middle, which is precisely my own commenting pattern when I'm reading other people's fic—but I do use comments to kind of gauge how frequently to update so I'm not spamming people's inboxes or irritating them with long waits in between.