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⌈ Secret Post #4193 ⌋

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I'm pretty sensitive to those things, but I still manage to read fic.

I agree that most fic writers aren't even trying to use standard written English.

But if the kink is right...

Kinky PWP fic is the only exception to my standards.

The goal isn't to not notice that fanfic is often poorly written. The goal is to not care.

I have more issue with how many fic writers don't get human interaction or keep a character's speaking style. I can forgive technical mistakes easy.

I took enough literary critique courses in college to be super sensitive to this too, and sometimes it's hard to find something "good enough" to to make a time investment for, but whatever. Sometimes it's fun to read through something unforgivably horrible as a palate cleanser.

My mother is an editor, and I picked up on a lot of her habits. There is fanfiction out there that makes me want to punch someone in the throat.

Well sure, it's kind of a given with the whole nature of fanfic really since most people write for fun so the vast majority of it won't be that great, which I think is fine given that it's a hobby done in people's free-time.

I hit the back button frequently.

Yeah, that sums it up.

I can't read wall of text fics anymore. My brain just won't.

okay, an historian

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I just read the most helpless noobfic and I cringed, yet found it so endearing and loveable, because I could relate and it made me remember how being there felt like. Its quality hadn't anything to do with good writing, but as an art piece it worked like a surprise wonder. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it now.

I have noticed that it takes me longer to find something to read since I started working at my new job, which involves a lot of editing and proof-reading. I was actually thinking about making a secret out of it, lol.

If I can understand what the author is saying, I can muddle through the fic. More authors trip over that bar than you’d expect. I’ve seen surprisingly well-regarded fic that can’t structure sentences in such a way that you can understand the concepts without having to rearrange the words like puzzle tiles, e.g. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/92460/1/a-hairy-problem/ch1-into-the-forest

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As an English grad student, I deliberately break grammatical rules in my fic writing for the sake of rhythm, flow, and emotional impact, in ways I absolutely would not do in my academic writing. Run-on sentences, hanging fragments, and other things like that can have their place in creative writing. Is there plenty of fanfiction with grammar errors to no artistic purpose? Yes, obviously. But different modes of writing have different conventions and standards because they exist for different purposes, and that's okay. I wouldn't never write a paper in second person, either, but second person prose can be hugely affecting in the right hands. Hell, I wouldn't even write a philosophy paper with the same structure and syntax as an English paper, because that world values a much stricter sense of objective clarity at the cost of elegance and flow. Maybe try more book fandoms/skewed older fandoms? That tends to raise the average a little in my estimation.

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this whole secret seems like a long-winded humblebrag to me

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Fortunately, I think one of the things that comes with experience is the ability to compartmentalize, so you can enjoy media as a separate thing from work. It's definitely the healthier and more fun approach.

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As long as it's relatively IC, I couldn't care less.

I just have a different set of standards for fics than I do for published works. Kinda like how if you're grading an eighth grader's paper and a twelfth grader's paper, you wouldn't grade them both on the same rubric.

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Isn't breaking the rules one of the best parts of fanfiction?

I can't read badly written fics. It's really annoying because I have next to nothing to read as the result. I used to love everything and my folders were full of saved masterpieces, but then smth changed along the way and I had to delete all of them cos they were just unreadable. I'm not even a native speaker, ffs. I honestly dislike this about myself, I just want to read fics!

Same here, just not history major, but still. I couldn't read badly written stuff anymore so I wrote my own fics for myself. Thus I get what I want and well written too.

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I honestly don't notice that fics are badly written. I'm not an arts grad but I'm not someone who doesn't read much either (currently working my way through all of Shakespeare). Usually fanfics only annoy me when the characters seem too bland, like you could just slot another fandom into the story and no one would notice. I guess when I read fanfic I let part of my brain switch off and just focus on what the writer is trying to say.

However, I have never been able to read official fandom books as the writing is too bad to me.