[ SECRET POST #2769 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2769 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 064 secrets from Secret Submission Post #396.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I won't read single story works in progress (series of completed stories are a different matter) on principle. It's like I'd be rewarding attention whores if I did so. You ain't Dickens, bitches.

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting. Do you write?

[(Anonymous)]

-15/10

[(Anonymous)]

Your WIP opinion has nothing to do with OP's secret though? Go to the general comments.

[(Anonymous)]

That's okay. I can wait until I'm done posting for you to read my fic. :)

I may not be Dickens, but more people are apt to find a story if there are regular updates. Posting a completed work all at once, especially in a large fandom, means that it won't find as big an audience because it quickly gets buried by everything else. That's why I post serially, even though the work itself is complete on my hard drive.

[(Anonymous)]

A few of my favourite authors are like this: they complete the fic but then post serially. I often miss the first chapter but then catch up and follow along.

A while ago I was posting a WIP and frankly a little lost about an element of the plot. Someone made a critical comment about my use of a minor character that inspired a completely new take on the plot. If I hadn't posted that as a WIP I don't think I'd have finished what turned out to be my favourite story.

[(Anonymous)]

Posting a completed work all at once, especially in a large fandom, means that it won't find as big an audience because it quickly gets buried by everything else.

Yes, this is a good point: it accounts for the fact that so many fics which are trash collect tons of kudos while masterpieces disappear with a minimum number of kudos. I hate this phenomenon, because it means that you cannot use either the number of kudos or the number of comments as an indicator of the quality of a fic. Seriously, it makes me itch for a -1 kudo button sometimes...

But then again, most people have learned to filter out WIPs which has the advantage of tremendously shortening your read list in popular fandoms: it's particularly easy on AO3, though much harder on other platforms, I'll grant you.