[ SECRET POST #3120 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3120 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 047 secrets from Secret Submission Post #446.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Things you wish fanfic authors would/wouldn't do

[(Anonymous)]

I would say at minimum:

* who's in this fic
* general sense of the plot and what genre it is
* a "hook" that shows me why I need to read THIS fic vs. some other fic

Example:

It's twenty years after Hogwarts and Hermione is on a much needed sabbatical to research her new book. But the wild green hills of Scotland hold many secrets, and one of them is the legend of Wytchford Wood. It is said that on Midsummer's night, ghosts and spirits emerge from the cavern by the old spring to drink of its sacred waters. Hermione is determined to uncover the truth, but will she discover the legend is a tale for children, or will she find herself haunted by a shade from her own past?

Re: Things you wish fanfic authors would/wouldn't do

[(Anonymous)]

We're going to have to agree to disagree, because I hate "hooks" in summaries, and I especially hate summaries that have rhetorical questions in them. I think this might be part of how fandom is well-chosen tags is enough.

Re: Things you wish fanfic authors would/wouldn't do

[(Anonymous)]

A hook is merely something that catches a person's interest. If there's nothing that catches my interest in the summary, I'm not going to read the fic.

Re: Things you wish fanfic authors would/wouldn't do

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I think teaching the concept of a "hook" is bullshit. It encourages people to put gimmicky advert-speak in their writing in the false belief that that's how to correctly catch readers' interest. Actually, what catches somebody's interest is going to be, yknow, content. I have never read a fic because somebody put a hokey rhetorical question in the summary to "hook" me in. I have, however, read them because the summary hinted at some fuckery that appealed to me.

Re: Things you wish fanfic authors would/wouldn't do

[(Anonymous)]

You are not really grasping what a hook is. A hokey rhetorical question could qualify as a type of hook, but not all hooks are hokey rhetorical questions. You're basically complaining about how horrible all fruits are because you don't like bananas.

The hint in the plot summary about some fuckery that interested you? That's the hook.

Re: Things you wish fanfic authors would/wouldn't do

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like that kind of thing better if the answer were ever, EVER "Nope, just a tale for children." C'mon, don't phrase it as a question if it's not a question, people.