[ SECRET POST #4313 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4313 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 09 secrets from Secret Submission Post #617.
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

[fscom]

General comments:

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How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[(Anonymous)]

And when did you realise you had gotten good?

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[philstar22]

Long time. I don't even think I'm good yet. But I realized that people liked my writing when I started getting a lot more kudos on AO3.

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[(Anonymous)]

Years of practice on my own, and then I started writing fanfiction just for fun. At first, very few people paid any attention but more people read and reviewed with every chapter and the reviews were lovely and complimentary. That helped me feel more confident about my abilities.

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[(Anonymous)]

About 5 years.
It took that long of hit-or-miss to realize how to control the details and finer points and that the good idea itself wasn't enough without technique.

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[dani_phantasma]

I hesitate to say I'm good because honestly that's inviting someone to get mad at me but...I'm at a point I like?

I'm not going to stop pushing myself more but I don't mind reading over my more recent stuff? And I guess other people seem to like it which makes me happy.

I'm good. Happy to improve but happy where I'm at.

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[(Anonymous)]

I actually wrote a million word story over the course of several years. The difference in the beginning of the story and the end was startling. The beginning was definitely more stereotypical of teen fanfiction where the ending felt more realistic to the characters. It was a really great learning tool as I learned all sorts of things about pacing, character voices, unnecessary filler, how to finish, etc.

It's hard to judge one's own work but if I am good, I think I realized it when I wrote a pastiche of an 19th century author. I had several comments that I had managed to emulate their style to where they could see the author having written it.

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[(Anonymous)]

Good? What's that?

It's more like, I took well over nine years to not suck completely. Unfortunately, I spent the next nine years losing what I had gained :P

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly I've always been pretty good at it, even in high school. I realized I was good at it when I bullshitted my way through college english, skipping most of the semester and still getting A's on my papers.

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[tabaqui]

I dunno. Years, I guess. And I'm good, but i could be better. I know I tend to repeat myself re: phrases/moments/ideas, which isn't great (though it happens in published stuff, too).

I guess...five or six years into my writing, I felt like i could say 'yeah, i'm pretty good at this'.

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[(Anonymous)]

At least ten years of almost daily writing and trying to find my own niche I was comfortable writing in? And I only realised I'd gotten "good" when I took creative writing classes in university and my lecturer told me I could actually get my work published in journals if I sent it off (I never did, but that was nice to hear).

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[bur]

I think that I have good writing, but I'm not nearly conceited enough to believe I'm a consistently good writer, and goodness it's taken a long time to get there. Weirdly, I credit business writing courses. It taught me to cut the crap, and then cut it a bit more for good measure.

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[(Anonymous)]

honestly there are bits of my lame-ass high school writing from 20 years ago that I really like. there's always been something good in my writing. the whole thing may not be good but I could craft a good paragraph or two back then and I still can now.

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not there yet. I wrote consistently for a couple of years, but stopped when I got to college and my creative writing really suffered for it. I'm just barely getting back to a point where I feel like my writing isn't that bad, but I can definitely improve.

Re: How long did it take you to get good at writing?

[mudousetsuna]

I wouldn't say I have anything I'm proud of until 2008-ish, when my RP prose took a turn from present tense (with whacky narration all over the place, and in-jokes that weren't funny commentary) to limited 3rd person past tense. Even then, I am still constantly absorbing new skill from anybody I write with. No matter what I write, if I come back to it a day later, I keep thinking 'Man, I should have put THIS phrase THIS way...', and such.

Secrets you *wouldn't* make a secret for

[(Anonymous)]

Whether they're too obscure to bother with, too long to explain, or only dubiously fandom-based - here's a chance to share!

Re: Secrets you *wouldn't* make a secret for

[kaijinscendre]

Most of the podcasts I listen to. They have almost no fandom. ;_; I just want to talk about them with someone else damnit!

Re: Secrets you *wouldn't* make a secret for

[philstar22]

My Flightrising thoughts. Not really a fandom, and dramarising is where I'd post the sort of things that in other fandoms I'd do secrets for.

Re: Secrets you *wouldn't* make a secret for

[(Anonymous)]

I'm starting to watch a new series that's fairly obscure and that I basically only randomly stumbled across on Amazon, and I can already tell I'm going to go all in on shipping the two lead characters, and there is literally no fic for it on AO3

Re: Secrets you *wouldn't* make a secret for

[rosehiptea]

Why does Jordskott not have more fanfiction?

In the Pokemon games it often says Pokemon eat other Pokemon, and it seems to be true in the anime too, but I pretend it doesn't happen and that Pokemon is some kind of vegetarian paradise because the idea grosses me out too much.

Re: Secrets you *wouldn't* make a secret for

[(Anonymous)]

Sherlock. There's really no 'secrets' in that fandom.

Why do people always ask if you are okay?

[philstar22]

Why do people always ask if you are okay? The way people ask it makes it seem like they think something might be wrong but they want you to say yes anyway. Am I supposed to lie and say yes? I told you an hour ago on the phone I wasn't feeling well. Why are you asking me again now? Do you want a lengthy explanation? Again?

Deleted fanfics that you miss?

[(Anonymous)]

Went back to yet another old favorite fanfic of mine, yet again found out that it was deleted :( Every time this happens my heart breaks a little more. I've started to download everything now, but some things are gone before I get to them (one time a fic was deleted while I was halfway through reading it; that was a bad surprise)...and it always seems to be ones I especially liked (or else I just don't notice when it's not, which is also possible). Wayback machine is intermittently helpful. I did recover the entirety of my favorite fic of all time with it. But usually I get only the first few chapters or nothing at all.

Anyone have any old favorites that are now gone? Want to tell us about them? Or just commiserate? Heck, maybe one of us has read the same thing and downloaded it while it was still up. You never know!

How is the weather where you are?

[(Anonymous)]

It is cold and wet where I am.

The Last Jedi

[tabaqui]

Finally watching it. It's...okay. Not great. Pretty cheesy in moments, and the kneejerk of having fat, grumpy aliens and/or fat, 'cute' aliens (or, non-human characters) is really getting old.

Not sure what the huge hate-on for the Rose character came from. She's adorable and fun and knows what she's doing. WTF is wrong with people?