[ SECRET POST #3716 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3716 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hmmm. I kind of question whether it's actually fanfic that has caused you to enjoy original fiction so much less. I mean, it might be and I obviously can't say it's not, but the two factors might also just happen to coincide with an overall change in how you think/feel.

I used to enjoy the fuck out of a lot of original fiction when I was a kid. I ate up the YA section and loved it. But then I hit a point where for some reason I wasn't reading very much. I was around fourteen or fifteen at the time, and part of it was that I I'd become obsessive about a TV show and had begun reading fanfic, but there was probably more to it than that. Because the thing is, when I started reading again around the end of high school, everything I read was either trite and puply and I didn't care about it, or else weighty and a slog and I didn't care about it.

Basically, I think what happened is that mt brain actually changed. The part of my brain responsible for critical thinking became more developed and the part responsible for emotional reactions got somewhat subsumed.

Sadly, I still can't feel the way I used to about original fiction. But after spending a while relearning what fiction meant to me, I have found that I can still enjoy reading it. I just don't enjoy it in the emotionally immersive way I used to. For that, I turn to fanfic. Now I turn to original fiction as more of a learning-related hobby. I want the ideas that are in a book, I want to know how an author writes, I pick up a book and think, "I wonder what's in here." And then I set myself to finding out.