[ 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)]

* Learn to accept concrit graciously, even if you don't agree. If you want to improve as a writer, you'll need to be able to hear other peoples' feedback on your work without losing your shit or going off in a corner and crying. It's one thing if people get nasty and say personal, uncalled for things. But a criticism of your actual writing is something you should consider carefully, even if you ultimately decide not to follow the advice.

* Get a good beta. Not just someone who proofreads your work for spelling and grammar errors, because that's the absolute minimum of what betas do. Find someone who can do a thorough read of your work and give you constructive criticism. When you find a good beta, be nice, listen to what they say without losing your temper and remember that it's really, really hard to find a beta who can do all this for you.

* Don't respond to negative reviews if you're going to get upset. Just don't. Even if you're in the right and the reviewer is a jerk, the resulting drama is rarely worth it.

* Don't worry about cliches, tropes and what other people in fandom do or don't do. Write what you like and try to make it as good as you can. That's more important than including the "right" pairings or tropes.

* Learn how to write a decent summary. A good summary should not only give readers an idea of what your fic is about, it should also be interesting enough to make people want to read it. That's hard to do, but if you can learn how to do this it's a very good skill to have.

* Don't get a big head. In some fandoms, it's not that hard to became a well known writer. You may get gushing comments from adoring readers who assure you that you're a genius. You're not! And that's okay. Don't get too big for your britches no matter how good you think you or anyone else thinks you are.

* Some people say never to take fanfic seriously, but I don't agree. Take it as seriously as you want to, but remember that you can't insist that other people take it as seriously as you do.

Have fun with it. It's okay to approach even the writing of fanfic as SRS BSNSS, but if it stops being fun, then it's time to take a step back and ask yourself why you're doing this in the first place. Is it to be a better writer? Is it a social outlet to communicate with your fellow fans? Can your goal be accomplished without the sadness and drama? (It totally can.)