[ SECRET POST #3170 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3170 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not that advertising can't be annoying; there's a balance to be struck. But I don't think it's wrong for someone who's new or who doesn't have a lot of presence in a fandom to promote their work to some extent.

Agreed. Plus, for those who start off writing fanfic but want to branch out to original writing and hope to make a living out of it (well, as much of one as being a professional author can make, unless you become a best-seller or something), learning how to promote and advertise your work can be good practice for if and when you do go professional.

[a_potato]

Absolutely! It's amazing how much self-promotion you have to do as a professional writer, even if you've got an agent and a contract with a publishing house, and even if you're already popular. It seems to be expected that you'll do a lot of the legwork yourself.

Reading through some of the other comments (and also thinking about some types of promotion that bother me), I think the problem might be that a lot of fic writers don't know how to market themselves effectively, so they wind up coming across as too aggressive and/or self-involved. But, then again, that's an argument for the need to practice one's advertising skills along with one's writing skills.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I don't think a lot of people realize just how much work does go into that side of things until they experience it themselves. That would be the biggest hurdle for me should I get lucky enough to get to that level of professional writing, I know that much. I would very much want someone to help guide me and figure out where the best places to have signings or readings would be, or what shows would be best to go on, or things of that sort.

I also fully agree with your second paragraph. Regarding the aggressive aspect of promotion, with some authors, the amount of attention they want can sometimes be a factor in terms of how aggressive they get with their promotion, too. In my case, I'm certainly always happy when people find and read my fanfic, and if there's an opportunity for me to promote it, I will, but I don't promote it as heavily as I would if I were writing an original novel, y'know? And even then, either way, I'm not really one for being in the spotlight much, and would be afraid of becoming a bother to people, so any promotion/advertising I did would be fairly modest as a result.