[ SECRET POST #2858 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2858 ⌋

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

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[Orlando Jones]


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[Sleepy Hollow]


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[Mariana's Trench]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[Ace Attorney]


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[George, Prince of Wales/Beau Brummell]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Star Wars: The Old Republic]


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[Scorpion]


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[Harry Potter]


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[Sakana]


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Notes:

Late work day again, sorry.

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 016 secrets from Secret Submission Post #408.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 2 - personal attacks ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: OP

[esteefee]

I understand, OP. There's this one writer who ditched an unfinished, marvelous WIP in my fandom and went bounding off to a new fandom just as it reached a really critical point. I have no idea if she's popular in her new fandom. I have no doubt she is, though, because she is a terrific writer. All I can do is read her old stuff and sigh to myself. It's not her fault, really. You can't help whom you love. It's my fault for reading a WIP. I hardly ever do.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

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What's aggravating is when someone is posting a really fabulous fic, in chapters, and they get to Chapter 8 and say, "I've finished the last 2 chapters and they'll be up shortly," and you're all "Yay!", and ... the bloody chapters never appear.

Instead, off goes the author to frolic another fandom, leaving me and - well, mostly me plus 2 or 3 other folks, it was a pretty niche fic - wondering what happened to the characters in this fic we'd come to adore.

What really sucks was that it wasn't even supposed to be a WIP. If I'd known it wouldn't have been finished, I wouldn't have started reading to begin with, y'know?

Yes, I'm bitter. And also possibly petty. *joins OP in the petty zoo*

Re: OP

[esteefee]

I know. It sucks. I think the only safe thing is to wait until the fic is totally in hand. Which is supremely difficult because in small fandoms there's JUST SO LITTLE GOOD STUFF. It's hard! It's like dangling meat before a starving meerkat.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

As a writer, I have done this several times. I have the fic finished, but I never post the end. In some cases I have even have had it betaed, edited, everything.

The first time this happened, it was because the ending of my fic was going to be in a direction opposite to what all the comments wanted. It was straight guy/bi guy with a crush on him, and it had been made clear all through the fic that that they were not going to get together. Surprise, surprise: they never were.

I just couldn't bring myself to spoil the ending most of my readers already had imagined, even though I had dozens of requests to post it.

Eventually, I lost the whole ending when my hard drive died so that's that.

The next time I didn't post an ending was when I literally had one reader commenting on the fic (a crossover) and then they went. I finished the fic for my own amusement, and never posted the last two chapters, since what was the point. I even marked the fic "this is not a WIP, it's finished" because to me, it was.

So there are many reasons why a fic may be finished, not a WIP, but the writer still doesn't post the ending.