[ SECRET POST #4938 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4938 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot of it comes down to whether or not you enjoy a tease. Some people seem to live for that feeling. Some people seem to get downright enraged by it.

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding this, but also, I want to add:

I love short fics that deftly paint a part of a picture, but do so in a way that hint at the full picture and encourage me to extrapolate. That's the type of tease I enjoy, and it takes skill to pull off, imo. OTOH, sometimes I'll read a fragment that doesn't really feel like it's more than what's right there on the page. It's not the tip of an iceberg; it's just an ice chunk bobbing along. That's not something I personally tend to enjoy.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't understand this line of thinking at all. How is it a tease if it's a complete story, even if it's short?

[(Anonymous)]

Why I do it is not so much a tease as...

Well, first of all I'm a stickler for structure in long-form fiction, and most multi-chapter fanfic does that poorly. It's quite apparent that the author is pantsing it when I've gone through three or more consecutive chapters with minimal real development. And honestly, having failed at the last five NaNoWriMos, I've largely given up developing my own.

The second is, the long-form fic is already done IMO. It's the delivered game or series. But especially with games, there's usually scenes and conflicts that are alluded to but not fully developed. There's also the "below decks" stories of what's happening behind the main cast.

While I can't do Lord of the Rings or even Pride and Prejudice, I can do setup, conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution for a handful of characters in short-story form. Sometimes I challenge myself to do it flash fic form, because I'm a stickler for structure and I like working under those constraints. And I really don't care if I get more than a handful of kudos for it, because I'm probably not in your fandom anyway.