[ SECRET POST #2860 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2860 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 062 secrets from Secret Submission Post #409.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

Kind of inspired by secret one.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

That's it's too bland.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

Ditto.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[dahli]

Same.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

Same here!!

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[icecheetah]

That I'm too repetitive and obvious.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

Me too. :/ I know I'm often repetitive and I need to change things in my writing because of it.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

That the elements of my story are too mismatched and are things that only I would find interesting.

I tend to like works that the general public rates as a 7 out of 10. Like video games and movies that only get a score of 7 (I say that a 7 is a 10 in my heart lol), so I fear that that's what my own works amounts to too.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

That my fics are too vanilla and G-rated for fandom. I mean, they're PG-13 and not that vanilla by my standards, but there's no sex scenes, no incest, no handcuffs...

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

That I revise all the life and zest out of my longer works.

I have a feeling I do this, because with one or two exceptinos the stories of mine that get the most approval in terms of hits/kudos/favs/reviews etc are the oenshots written as pinch hits.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not good at intentional humor, action scenes, and sex scenes. I'm awkward at transitions so fading to black rarely works well for me. I really like sarcastic characters or pairings where the banter is a big part of the relationship but I cannot reproduce this on the page. I feel like instead of making action scenes exciting, I'm just explaining what's going on (and doing a poor job). I feel like my sex scenes are repetitive and boring.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

that I'm neither fish nor fowl- that I should focus on my original work in my mother tongue, OR on english fanfic, otherwise both will be shitty.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm worried that I create for others. I enjoy the process, but I met most of my close friends through being entertaining, or writing something interesting they responded to. I feel like I need to write good fanfic to make friends here. If I were a better fanfic writer, if I had more to offer...

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

- Accidentally plagiarizing someone else.

- Being so concerned with pleasing everyone that it damages the work.

- Being horribly misunderstood.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[dreemyweird]

tl;dr: everything.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[tasogare_n_hime]

Getting everything tied together coherently.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

-Telling instead of showing
-Too much introspection
-Not enough action
-Awkward dialogue
-That my scene shifts make my fics read like Airhead.

Among other things.

I'm working on all these issues and I know they can't be as bad as I think they are, but my fics tend not to be very popular, which just feeds into my insecurity.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[scrubber]

I'm really scared that I'm just an Idea Man who can come up with a good premise and is good for nothing else. I honestly don't understand how people write plots. The only thing I'll be good for at this rate is adding spice to someone else's shit.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[queerwolf]

Bland, OOC, done to death, wasting a good premise because I couldn't put down on paper what I saw in my head.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[caffeine_buzz]

That I re-use the same phrases too often. Sometimes I re-read my own stuff and I start noticing that I used the same or similar wording in different fics and even if they were written months or years apart I still worry that someone's reading my fics and thinking "Oh come on, you're using that wording again?" I try to actively avoid stuff I know I use a lot but sometimes I don't even think about it until I've already posted the fic.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[darkmanifest]

Making interesting stuff happen. I can sit two characters in a room and have them interacting in (what I hope are) complex ways, no problem, but the minute it's time for there to be an actual plot where I need to get from point A to point B, it's like, Jesus, could this get any stupider.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[raspberryrain]

I...OK, I don't write fanfic. I have tried, I gave up.

I think my stuff is just unappealing to people.

I work in 3D, so I figured there was an uncanny valley issue, and I am aware of certain stereotypes about Poser artists.

But I can tell that I introduce too many character designs and don't flesh them out. And my major characters are usually too similar to me in outlook to really entirely disagree with me or each other. I don't seem interested in antagonists, and when I design them, I don't use them, or end up modifying them to agree more with me so they aren't "stupid."

...I don't know. I think I'm just not a writer.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

That it's all horrible shit.

[(Anonymous)]

That my writing's unclear and too verbose.
That I have to be in some sort of sudden headzone to write with emotion and read it over and still feel it the next day.
That the little, major things for me, like dialogue where one character's words shift from 'us' to 'you' mean nothing to the reader.
That my antagonist will be seen as excused/right because their actions ultimately helped and a few major characters were sympathetic to their tragic soul.
Any of the technical parts. I can think up a beginning, an ending, but plot points, themes, arcs, the message, symbols? My brain tends to lock down.

Re: Stuff you're worried about with your own creative works?

[(Anonymous)]

Not finishing something I invested way too much time into.

And not finishing something I invested way too much time into in a way that isn't complete SHIT.

Between the two, I don't know which is worse.