[ SECRET POST #4545 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4545 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If it's any comfort to you, OP, one of the many things that make make me roll my eyes at people on the internet who'll never know it are the words "aspiring novelist" in someone's fandom bio.

[(Anonymous)]

Because people aren't allowed to have dreams?

[(Anonymous)]

Can we please stop with this "aren't allowed to" bullshit.

People judge. That doesn't mean you aren't allowed to do whatever you're doing.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, but... judging someone for having aspirations seems really fucking stupid. This isn't judging someone for liking RPF, or a certain ship, this is like if someone said, "I'd like to be a neuroscientist one day," and got judged for it.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT isn't judging people for having dreams or aspirations. They're judging them for listing it in their bio.

[(Anonymous)]

And that's still judge-worthy how? It's a part of them. That's what bios are for.

[(Anonymous)]

And on the visitor side, bios are, like, specifically for judging what kind of person the blogger might be. That's their purpose. And "aspiring writer" signals a certain type of person in some people's experience. I don't know what to tell you. This isn't about objective right or wrong, it's just how people think.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, I've had some dear fandom friends who advertised their aspirations like that, and I wish them well, but yeah, it always comes across as a little narcissistic and pathetic.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - in my experience, it almost always means someone who has 10-15 chapters of a pet project story that's too near and dear to them by now to really edit, and they're too determined that it's The One to actually finish it.

[(Anonymous)]

hahahahaha spot on

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - And I'm absolutely dragging myself in that, btw. But the most valuable lesson I've learned as a writer is that you're going to write a lot of stuff that's not good and the only thing to do about it is finish it anyway, put it on a shelf, and write something else. A published author's "first novel" is never their actual first novel.