[ SECRET POST #4311 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4311 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 23 secrets from Secret Submission Post #617.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Fandom secrets you can't be bothered to make

[(Anonymous)]

Of course there are fanfic writers out there who are better than many published writers, but the exceptions aren't really the rule. Pointing to those amazing fanfics that are literary works of art are fine, but 99% of fanfiction isn't like that. (And that's okay.) Most published fiction isn't phenomenal either, but ostensibly it has at least seen a proper editor, which is more than most fanfics can say.

Re: Fandom secrets you can't be bothered to make

[tabaqui]

Thinking of a few books I've read in the past, I'd say that quite a lot of profic hasn't seen a proper editor, either.

Re: Fandom secrets you can't be bothered to make

[(Anonymous)]

If they were published by a professional house, that's demonstrably untrue, though. I, too, think a lot of published books are terrible. I've even caught the occasional typo. But fanfic is usually terrible and unedited. You generally have to wade through a lot of crap to find the gems. It might seem skewed if you are in certain writing communities, but you'd also have to take in account 99.9% of Fanfiction.net and such.

Re: Fandom secrets you can't be bothered to make

[tabaqui]

If the editing process didn't improve the story, left typos and poor grammar, and didn't help the author to make the story more accessible, or to *make sense*, what's the advantage?

Just because someone went over it doesn't mean it's somehow magically *better*, as we've all seen (and discussed).

Seems to me the odds of finding an amazing profic author and an amazing fanfic author are about the same.

Re: Fandom secrets you can't be bothered to make

[(Anonymous)]

I am honestly not sure how you're defining "amazing" here - perhaps works you enjoy, which, if you're specifically set on a character/pairing, would probably indeed make it easier to find something you enjoy reading more frequently in the fanfic world than in original works. But the odds of you finding a terrible fanfic and a terrible book are not the same, and it's a little silly to pretend they are.

Re: Fandom secrets you can't be bothered to make

[tabaqui]

I define 'amazing' as a work that makes me react, either laughing out loud, becoming tense and flaily because of the action, or actually ugly sobbing at my desk. I have encountered that in fanfic - some of it in fandoms i don't even care about, but I trusted the author. Some of it 'fanfic' only by the definition of 'works based on myths' (like Greek and Roman characters, historical settings, etc.)

I have read books that affected me that way, too, but on the whole - those books were written by a single author (for instance, i often find myself reacting in one of those ways to CJ Cherryh's books). Same with fanfic. There's a lot of fun, interesting, good fanfic out there, but only a few authors can make me bite my nails or sniffle into my keyboard.

I would say the odds of finding those authors/stories are the same, pro-fic and fan-fic wise. Because 95 percent of the profic i have read did *not* draw those reactions from me, and i generally only read those stories once.

The ones that make me react? I read over and over, pro-and-fanfic alike.

In my experience, the percentages are pretty much the same.