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⌈ Secret Post #4517 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Frustrating beta

[(Anonymous)]

this belief that everything in the fic needs a reason to be there or to 'fit'

I think this is largely true for things like movies and plays, where you have extremely limited time to tell a clear, concise story. It's somewhat true for things like TV and novels.

I don't think it's true for fanfic. Fanfic is a whole lot more flexible about stuff like that, IMO.

everything she personally doesnt like seems to "not fit" and when i try to make it a part of the fic, I'm "forcing it"

Without being able to read the fic, this is a hard call. Like, you're beta sounds really bad here, but at the same time, I've definitely read plenty of not very good fics that have a problem with internal consistency - where things just seem to come out of nowhere with no real logic or flow.

IMO this tends to be mainly an issue with things the characters do and feel. So like, if the writer wants one of their characters to cry in the other's arms, but they're impatient so they do almost no work to get the characters to that point, instead just forcing it to happen. Or the writer wants two characters who are just meeting to be incredibly attracted to each other, but again, they're impatient, so they skip any sort of build up, don't actually give the characters any particular reason to be wildly attracted to each other, and instead just jump right to both characters barely restraining themselves from fucking on a desk. IMO that pretty much always feels forced and cheap.

But OTOH, when it comes to stuff that happens to the characters, I don't think you generally need to work that hard to justify it or make it feel natural. You invent a reason for them to have to share a bed, and they share a bed. You invent a reason for one of them to get hurt, because you want the sexy, protective, intimate scene where the other patches them up. You invent an OC that hits on one of them because you want the jealousy feels.

It's getting to the point where I dont enjoy fic writing anymore.

Going beta-less is always going to be better than losing your enjoyment for writing and quitting. You are not obligated to bust your ass with betas and rewrites. Being receptive to a beta/editor is great, but writing and enjoying it is number one.