[ SECRET POST #3085 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3085 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 062 secrets from Secret Submission Post #441.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Finding/Choosing Fics to Read

[(Anonymous)]

Length. If it isn't over 20k words, then I'm not going to read it (that is just me having a personal preference and not anything for an author to worry about of course), a clear summary/synopsis that is being neither self-deprecating nor trying to be arty (I know summary writing is not an easy thing, so if you are stuck then give the reader the Friends title version "The One Where..."), simple tags Dark fic/Romance Fic/Gen Fic/AU/Coffee House AU/OC centric. Simple and clear. Tag in no more than four main characters, preferably less. Advise if it is a non-standard writing style, standard writing is still third person past tense, please tell me if it is not so as to save the reader the trouble of backbuttoning. The big thing is not to over tag your fic, tags are used to exclude search results as much as they are to find them. Do both types of searcher a favor and keep it simple and straightforward.

Re: Finding/Choosing Fics to Read

[(Anonymous)]

Advise if it is a non-standard writing style, standard writing is still third person past tense, please tell me if it is not so as to save the reader the trouble of backbuttoning.

You must have to hit the backbutton a lot.

Re: Finding/Choosing Fics to Read

[(Anonymous)]

Once upon a time, no not really. Increasingly yes though. There is an increasing amount of present tense, and even second person, writing however it is still not the majority except in very few fandoms where there source material itself was in a non standard format. It would be helpful, in fandoms where the source material is not in non third person past tense, to note in tags when the fic varies. The same probably goes for those who are in second person or present tense source material fandoms, and the fic is not.

There is nothing to be gained by not being upfront when the fanficcer's style differs from the source style (or in the case of non-literary fandoms, the non-standard writing style). It benefits the ficcer since they will cut down on angry comments and it benefits the fic-searcher since they can move on more easily to find something that might suit them better.

You'll note I'm not claiming any one style is superior, just that marking them out for ease of browsing is better.