[ SECRET POST #3070 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3070 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 072 secrets from Secret Submission Post #439.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[ketita]

believe me, I know :c
It's probably part of the reason I got my writer's block... what's the point in spending two weeks cranking out a chapter, when you get easily 10X more attention by writing out some vague headcanons and posting? It feels like nobody appreciates the effort.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh this, a million times.

Even when you write a fic that elaborates on that headcanon - usually because several people ask for it - no one bothers to say anything. Sometimes, including the very people who requested it in the first place.

I also have issues with headcanons gaining some percieved legitimacy despite just being someone's subjective opinion. In the context of OP's secret, it's those "Character A is totally trans/a POC/autistic/whatever, and if you write them any other way you're transphobic/racist/ableist/etc." headcanons that suddenly seem to take precedent over how said character is presetned/identifies within canon.

[othellia]

Spend two weeks... have a guy tell you that you need to write faster if you want to keep him as a reader...

Yeah. I've had that happen. :\

[ketita]

Somebody actually SAID that to you??? O_O

Wow. Just wow.

[othellia]

Yeah. He said anything longer than weekly updates caused him to forget what happened in previous chapters.

Unfortunately for him, I don't think he seems to realize that I'm writing four separate fanfics at the same time. (Three under this name, one under a pseudonym; and, go figure, the pseudonym has the most readers.) And then I also realized this past month that I've written nearly 100k of fanfic this year as part of my resolutions and approximately... 0k of original fic, so I've imposed on myself a new rule of one original fic chapter for every fanfic chapter, which, yeah, has even further slowed my output.

No idea if he's still reading or not.

[raspberryrain]

I think you can stand to lose him.

[ketita]

What raspberryrain said :|
I think you will somehow overcome the tragic trauma of losing this reader.

[othellia]

I don't know. Will I? Truly? D:

[ketita]

You must believe in yourself! (also if you need assistance in overcoming, you might consider going on a long pilgrimage to some remote Shaolin temple. You will find your inner peace, and possibly become a superhero too)

Remember that we are here for you, always. Someday you will be able to look back at this clown and laugh.