fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #389 ]

⌈ Secret Post #389 ⌋

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I disagree. A lot :/

For one, how short is a "short" fic? To some wrtiers, a "oneshot" could be up to 5,000 words. Short and long is kind of a matter of opinion, and there are still "short" multi-chaptered fics out there that take less than a half hour to read.

Second - authors that write long fanfic, I think, often put a lot more effort into their fics than drabble-writers. As a drabble-writer myself, I have to respect people that spend a collective amount of dozens of hours writing a fic. Not that my writing is better/worse than theirs, but I know how hard it is to stick to one project for a long period of time. All my "epic long" fics have lost my interest before I ever got to post them.

I dunno, it just seems like you're kind of discouraging people from writing long fanfiction. And when I have the time, I LOVE reading long fics. It's like reading a book (only usually with much more porn yaaay). It depends on what mood you're in, I guess, or what you like - long or short fiction.

But I don't think writers are any less talented just because they write long fic :/ Quality comes first, to me.

And people that don't finish? At least they tried. Points for attempting.

Not to mention the pacing and continuity issues that pop up in epicfic. I know, I know, "bawww words are so hard to choose and make perfect in a drabble", but the same is true in important scenes of anything longer =\

I've never had success with epic fic or even chapter fic, (I abandoned one, and two others that weren't that long, and I feel bad about it) but I think it would be stupid to say it's easy or only show that you have a lot of time on your hands. It is hard and that's part of why I don't do it, though I'm working on a non-epic chapter fic now.

I think the "secret" is just an overreaction to the idea that short fic automatically sucks which pops up in fandom (secret or otherwise) from time to time.

IAWTC, in every way. :)

I've only really been writing fics for about two years, and mostly for just one pairing, but lord knows I've put ~~over 9000 times~~ a lot more effort into my multi-chapter fics than I ever did for my one-shots.

For one, both of my multi-chaptered fics are crossovers, so I take more time to work out the characters' places within that universe that parallels with whatever movie I'm writing it as. I also have to alter the movie!plot to suit the characters' reactions to events, decide if I want the crossover to parallel the characters' original canons at all, etc.

All of my one-shots are generally taken from the original canon material, and just written for the sake of a few lines, or expressing an emotion. Writing out 1000-2000 words to properly weave a single scene is difficult, but requires nowhere near as much thought and effort as writing a multi-chaptered fic.

Not only that, but writing a one-shot usually takes me a day or so? My larger multi-chaptered fic is currently on chapter 31, and I've been writing it since September of 2006. Nobody can tell me that writing an epic is less difficult when you have to overcome various hits of writer's block / OTP block for that long.

lawl, I'm so long-winded...

authors that write long fanfic, I think, often put a lot more effort into their fics than drabble-writers.

Drabbles take effort, too. I know shitting out 100 words and calling it a fic seems totally easy and lame, but it can be damn hard to capture an idea the way you want to in just 100 words.

I was referring to the effort it takes to stick with something that long. Churning out 100 words and making it sound great still takes a hell of a lot less time and thinking than a huge fic.

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