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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2018-01-16 06:32 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #4031 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2018-01-16 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I get intimidated when I look at a WIP I want to finish and my writing is so much different than it used to be. The thought of trying to edit them back into line kills my interest. I could go forward without but it would be super jarring. I also no longer post WIPs until they're done.

(Anonymous) 2018-01-16 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Finished is better than perfect, OP.

Maybe try a small sidestory in the same universe as the WIP? Less pressure, and it could help ease you back in.

(Anonymous) 2018-01-17 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh, I get it. I had a WIP I was posting. I'm still active in that fandom (though I too now finish fics before I start posting), and people keep asking if I will finish it. The problem is this combination of it being really good and my writing evolving stylistically--not necessarily better or worse, but it would be jarring. I am at the point where I am thinking of starting the fic from the beginning in my current voice. But that seems really weird too. :-\

(Anonymous) 2018-01-17 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
I have some WIP I go back to that made me go "wow, that was pretty good" and some that make me go "wtf young me", except young me is older than that other one, lol. I also have trouble finishing fics, maybe this kind of thought isn't that uncommon among people who have trouble finishing stuff? :|

Hmm.

(Anonymous) 2018-01-17 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
I was trying to think of the best way to be encouraging while still acknowledging that, yeah, it might not be as good as what you wrote. But you know that, that's why you're concerned. You also know that you wrote that very good part of a story, so you know you have it in you to write that well. Now, you just have to decide whether it's worth it to find out what you can do with the rest of it.
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[personal profile] cloudtrader 2018-01-17 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Don't feel you really need to finish it. Most of the fic I seem to read is WIPs that will never be finished. Sometimes it gets me down, but I understand if the authors have lost interest. If you WANT to try to finish it, though, do so! Don't be intimidated by your own stuff, I bet you're even better now with more practice under your belt, right?

(Anonymous) 2018-01-17 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
This reminds me of a WIP I used to follow that hasn't been updated since 2013 too (This one: https://archiveofourown.org/works/542101/chapters/963633 from Batman-Nightwing fandom)
I know I wish the author would still finish this one, sighs. I bet you'd make a lot of people's days if you ever did update your fic OP.

(Anonymous) 2018-01-17 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Unless you have a deadline for a fic exchange or something, follow the muse wherever she leads you. Maybe try working on it for a while and seeing if you can finish it before starting to post again? That way, if you lose interest, or you realize it's not going to be as epic as you hoped, you can scrap it again and no one will be the wiser.

I like to "scene block" the entire fic before I start posting it, so I work through the roadblocks ahead of time and never get paralyzingly stuck once I start updating. But I doubt most people take the time to do this. They want immediate feedback, so they start posting when they get an idea, and then maybe get derailed or get stuck later and can't find their way back... you're not alone in abandoning fics, that's for sure.

(Anonymous) 2018-01-17 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, I could've written this secret in my sleep! I, too, had a WIP that I've left unfinished for some time thanks to personal stuff going on. I want to finish it, but every time I look back and refresh my memory with that intent, I get intimidated. I feel like maybe my WIP wasn't a work of genius, but it's at a higher level than I feel capable of pulling off at the present time. I worry that even if I did continue it, it wouldn't sound the same and the difference in quality would be really noticeable. :(

(Anonymous) 2018-01-17 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
I’m sorry, but I really don’t have much simpathy for you, OP. If your fic is as good as you say, then there are at least one person in the world who must have been dying to know what would happen next, who might have read it over and over again until they’ve memorized it, in hopes they’d get to see the ending someday, only to slowly realize that’ll never happen.
Readers are not entitled to anything, I know, but oh god, how much it hurts to read something great that will languish unfinished, forever.

Not cool, OP.

(Anonymous) 2018-01-17 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Readers are not entitled to anything" but you're going to chastise the OP for not finishing a fic? Geez. It doesn't sound like you truly believe what you said about entitlement.

(Anonymous) 2018-01-17 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
da

Ayrt was being chastising, but I totally where they're coming from.
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