[ SECRET POST #3588 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3588 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 62 secrets from Secret Submission Post #513.
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

[ketita]

Listen, one of the reasons I have a rule that I never share my stories with people I know (until I'm published, that is), is that 99% of them just don't care. After the 15th time where somebody was like "oh, I want to read that!" so I sent them a link, and they just never bothered... I got the hint.
People say stuff. That's all there is to it. I'm sure they didn't intend to be jerks about it. In many cases, at least with me, it's not even that they don't WANT to, but because they're not super interested in the thing, it's their absolute last priority after everything else.
Which is why I just don't send people stuff, and that's that.

And yes, it hurts. It hurts a lot, and it sucks, and I really feel for OP.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay but you aren't going on tirades about they aren't really friends and how awful they are and expecting everyone else to do the work for you when you produce something at minimum effort.

[ketita]

A secret on F!S is not the huge deal you're making it out to be. I read it as OP being hurt and frustrated, and I know that feeling. I've been there.
And yes, there may be extenuating circumstances - maybe the book is shit. Maybe it's not at all similar to stuff their fandom friends like. But there' a lot of speculation there, I'm just going off of what we do know.

[(Anonymous)]

From a biased source trying to look like they're the hottest most hurt shit ever.

Listen. I've dealt with these kinds of people. They take any vague interest and take it as an obligation.

[ketita]

My point is that I'm looking at it from the other side, because I've been on the other side. Hence my story about people who have done this to me, even though I don't often pimp my own stories, though sometimes I'll mention that I write - in the broadest sense, with no details.
So clearly this *can* happen, even when somebody is not being demanding or viewing everything as a contract inked in blood.

Hell, it happened to me a month ago. I mentioned a story I was working on to a friend, and she asked a bunch of questions and seemed really interested. Then she said she wants to read it, and I downplayed and said nevermind, I don't like showing my work, it's incomplete, yadda yadda. Whatever, she insisted that she really does want to read it and she does care, and finally I relented. I even told her that she's not obligated to *like* the story, she can quit after a page if she wants, I have no problems with that - I know different people like different things.
Guess who hasn't even looked at the story.

[(Anonymous)]

trying to look like they're the hottest most hurt shit ever

No, that would be you.