[ SECRET POST #3042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3042 ⌋

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

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Comments

[blitzwing]

I always found fanfic much harder to write, myself.

[sarillia]

Same. I'm always kinda left scratching my head at the talk of fanfiction as practice for Real Serious Writing as if it's some kind of universal rule that everyone goes from fanfic to original fiction (if they have written both, that is). There are different skills involved and I find it harder to write fanfic.

[(Anonymous)]

This. Because I practiced writing original fic for a full 12 years before actually taking on fanfic, I wigged out over a lot of detail stuff and trying to actually bring logic to my plot lines. I didn't even know about the tropes of fanfic (or how ruthless readers got if you decided to pass them up to try to give the characters some room to grow). I'm slowly getting back into writing it for really ridiculous reasons, but it's making me more nervous than original fic ever has.

[(Anonymous)]

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You weren't trying to bring logic and detail to your original writing?

[blitzwing]

I think their point is that they're used to paying a lot of attention to logical, good plots in their original fiction, and that's....not always as necessary with fanfic. A lot of readers don't mind if your plot is weak if the tropey/id stuff is plentiful and good, or if Character A and Character B hook up.

So they paid too much attention, worried too much, over the wrong things.

I could be misreading their intent though.

[(Anonymous)]

That's how I read it too.

The day I realized my fanfic readers don't actually want good writing was liberating. I mean, they're happy to *accept* good writing and solid plots, but mostly they just want a story that scratches their particular itches and is readable (and even that definition varies from person to person.)