[ SECRET POST #2937 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2937 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There's a huge difference between communicating your story clearly and changing your work to unrecognizable degrees (which is what I meant by authentic) just in case someone misinterprets something.

I am an older writer. When I wrote fanfic, I wrote fairly complex plots that I knew from the get-go weren't going to appeal to most of the fandom demographic who were a) young, b) not exposed to a lot of other fiction and other literary techniques and c) looking for quick, cute porn.

The advice in this thread smacked too much of saying that, since most of the fandom would likely struggle to follow my work, I should just forget about that and write the cute porn instead.

Like I said, I'm aware that this costs me readers. That's fine. Every work has its audience, and if mine are the older and more well-read members of fandom then I'm okay with that even if there are far fewer of them.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not what I said, although it's interesting that's what you chose to see it as.

I also write in a way that I've long accepted isn't for everyone. I'm on the old side for fandom, and have a higher level of education than most people. It's just a statistical fact.

However, I do want to know if I've inadvertently said something really stupid in my fic that even a thirteen-year-old would have picked up, because I can't see the wood for the trees.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure which part you're refuting. You're the one who brought up communicating clearly vs "I'm not changing my story", and I only addressed why there's a difference.

If you mean the part about the advice in this thread, I assumed from your DA tag that you weren't the person I was originally talking to (i.e. the person who suggested that 'advice' in the first place). Apologies if you are, but my opinion on that advice still stands.

I don't write for thirteen year olds. What they pick up from my work is pretty irrelevant to me in this context, and their idea of "something stupid" is equally so. What they think is "stupid" may just be something they haven't encountered before. What they don't understand may just be something thirteen year olds can't understand by dint of being thirteen. It certainly isn't something on the basis of which I'd change my work in any way. I'd rather know that my intended audience was getting it the way I wanted them to.