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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.

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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*

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.

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.

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