[ SECRET POST #3209 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3209 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 054 secrets from Secret Submission Post #459.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nothing will make me back button faster than overuse and lazy use of epithets. I can't help but wonder if the advice was tongue in cheek. Who on earth would seriously tell someone to do this?!

[(Anonymous)]

Someone must have, because bad fan fic writers are getting this info from somewhere.

Of course...fan fic writers often learn most of their craft from each other. One popular author with a bad habit can accidentally disperse that bad habit to a generation of writers.

I'm not remotely popular as a fic writer, but I've posted fics on Ao3 before and encountered, only a week or so later, other fics using the same turn of phrase or headcanon. So if anything, not only is writing style contagious in the fanfic world, the absorption of other people's writing ideas is happening faster than it ever did before.

[iambecomebees]

I noticed description of someone "popping the P" in yup or nope was practically in every story, to the point that I'd immediately stop reading if I saw it. Fanfic is very much follow-the-leader these days, or so it feels.

[(Anonymous)]

UGH. Yes. I'm glad someone else noticed that. And "he huffed".

It's always been follow the leader. Good fanfic writers also copy each other, it's just that they're good, so no one's bothered by it (until it starts getting too repetitive). But bad fic writers are the ones who are learning to write from other people's bad fic, not from better sources. And it all happens so fast now that you've barely hit "publish" on your own fic before someone's taking the idea and running with it.

[iambecomebees]

Haha somebody publishes a single-dad AU, expect to see A DOZEN COPYCATS by the end of the week.

[(Anonymous)]

That's true. Particularly with sex scenes, I'll see a lot of similar phrases and flowery descriptions. It gets a little hilarious sometimes.