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F!S Anon Meme (the ??th!)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

I'll be linking some general/general-fandom threads I see so people don't repost new threads with the same stuff. If you want me to link your thread up here, drop a link in the first comment!

List of threads:

Favorite FSers
Your diehard fandoms
NSFW confession thread
Topics you wish FS would stop wanking about
What do you want FS to talk about more?
(Pan)fandom discussion post
General opinions
Fapping material?
Random rants

Comments

writing a WIP

[(Anonymous)]

I'm writing my first WIP fanfic (four chapters in). The last five weeks it occupied all my writing mind space, but it is a rather slow-moving story so I'm afraid of burning out on it.

At least there's one brave soul who left me a comment on each chapter, because I'm not getting that many kudos on it.

Do you have a WIP going?
How do people receive it?
Are you running into problems writing it?

Re: writing a WIP

[(Anonymous)]

I have several.

People like them.

I just feel like i'll never, ever finish because they always get out of control (and I favor one of the 4 currently).

Re: writing a WIP

[(Anonymous)]

nice.

so what's getting out of control- the complexity or the scope?

Re: writing a WIP

[(Anonymous)]

Both? Also I sort of freeze up when I get overwhelmed.

2 will be novel-length if they ever get finished.I'm also writing an original novel. You can see how this gets out of hand.

(It also sort of depends on which pairing I favor at the time tbh)

Re: writing a WIP

[(Anonymous)]

I have never completed a single multichapter fic I've ever written.

I have one fic I've been wanting to write since I was in the 10th grade. In an effort to curb my bad habit, I told myself I couldn't post any of it until I'd written all of it. As you can imagine, this many years later, it has never been finished, but I still desperately want to write it.

I also have a handful of other ideas for WIPs across various fandoms, but I know they'd all be too time consuming to write and write well, so I end up not writing anything at all.

Re: writing a WIP

[(Anonymous)]

damn, that's one kind of dedication. for which fandom have you been meaning to write that fic, if you don't mind the question?

I picked up a WIP idea I wasn't too invested in to take off some pressure.

then again actually writing the thing will develop it in ways you never anticipated, even if it loses the theoretical perfection of a pure idea, right?

Re: writing a WIP

[(Anonymous)]

Psych

It's my main fandom, but I've never actually contributed anything because in addition to burning out on WIPs, I've always been intimidated by the character voices.

I appreciate the advice. You're right. Watching it develop in unanticipated ways is more exciting and interesting than the theoretical perfection of a pure idea. (Though admittedly, the idea itself is pretty stupid. It's very much id fic for me.)

Re: writing a WIP

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. I have one WIP that I haven't been able to work on in months. Its gotten a fairly positive response. I haven't really run into problems per say, I just don't have the time to write right now anything other than short little things. I have four partially written chapters sitting waiting to be finished.

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[(Anonymous)]

sounds more like you're lacking concentration if you have four partially written chapters.

Re: writing a WIP

[(Anonymous)]

I've been burned by starting stupidly-long epic stories that never got finished (one was well over 120 chapters last I remember) so this time I forced myself not to start posting until I had at least a six-month gap of material built up. that way if I ran into writer's block, I had a safety cushion. so far it's been my saving grace: even posting one chapter a week, I haven't caught up with myself and I think this one is actually going to get finished.

it's a mostly-gen fic in a very small fandom but jesus h christ it has the most views and kudos of anything i've posted, it has a 1:5 ratio of kudos to hits. I've suffered a bout of block all week long but I'm a good 25 chapters ahead, I can wait it out.

Re: writing a WIP

[(Anonymous)]

I have one WIP, but I have not published it yet. I want to refine it more, though technically I have enough for two chapters, so far. I'm a little stuck. I know how I want to end it, but i'm not sure how to get from point A to D, so to speak.

My first fic was smut and it is doing swimmingly. Over 100 kudos 13 bookmarks and counting. I don't expect this one to do as well, but it is in the same fandom, which is thankfully large.

Maybe you are writing for a medium to small sized fandom?

Re: writing a WIP

[(Anonymous)]

"writing a WIP"

Here is your first mistake, post a complete work or don't post anything. A WIP will eat your soul and give you anxiety because now that the beginning is out into the world 1)you have pressure to finish it, and finish it fast before people lose interest 2)you can't go back and change the beginning if it turns out you don't like it or prevents the story for going the way you want it.


I have a WIP going on currently but it's a chore to get through and I'm kicking myself everyday for starting it.

Re: writing a WIP

[(Anonymous)]

2)you can't go back and change the beginning if it turns out you don't like it or prevents the story for going the way you want it.

You can though, I've seen writers do this before. Just replace the relevant chapters and make an author's note in the next update that they've been changed.