[ SECRET POST #3180 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3180 ⌋

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

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[The Musketeers]


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Comments

Re: What kind of advice about fanfic do you wish you had gotten when you started out?

[(Anonymous)]

Just have fun. When you start getting wound up in worrying about things like reviews, and overthink your writing quality, your muses will disappear. I wrote at an insane speed, popping out fics left and right, when I started my first major fandom. I was a pretty good writer, too, at least for a fanfic writer - not that the writing wasn't sloppy at times or didn't have typos, but my writing was mostly coherent and I could carry a story. I ended up getting really popular right away, which was awesome. One-shots would get like ten, twenty reviews a day after posting. My WIPs got more than that yet, and someone even made fanart of one of my stories, and people asked to translate my fics and such. I didn't know the term at the time but I suppose I became a "big name fan" and ended up befriending some other fanfic writers. They made me start actually noticing things like word count, etc. I'd never paid attention before, and my chapters/one-shots were always long, like between 6,000 and 12,000 words each. But as the honeymoon wore off and began to think more technically about my writing, as well as having friends who would make me alert to things I hadn't even thought about before, I began to stare at blank pages. I began to obsessively look at word counts. I stopped taking each and every review to heart because there were so many, and I didn't know what to glean from them. I wanted to be a better writer, but I went too far in the opposite direction - it became more about technical things than about the love for my fandom. And even as my "writing" improved, I think my stories overall worsened.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is, it's great to want to improve your writing and fanfic is a great tool for that. But fanfic is also great because you don't have to be the best. You don't have to fight with publishers or freak out about rejections. Your fics are already accepted, and if there's any fandom at all, someone's going to read it. Now I write professionally, but fanfic is one of those things you can just relax and have fun with. Don't overthink it. Find whatever balance you can, but don't lose that love and inspiration for the fandom because you're too busy worrying about how many reviews you're getting.