[ SECRET POST #5017 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5017 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 14 secrets from Secret Submission Post #718.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You're not alone. I've read too many first pages that are really underwhelming, and unless the author did a fantastic job of revising, I'm not interested in reading fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off. I've got nothing against doing that, in theory. It's just that in practice, the author doesn't do enough revision to make it less recognizable and more polished, the way it ought to be if you're going to ask people to pay for it.

[(Anonymous)]

The fun ones are where they tell you in an author's note they wrote fan fiction. Or the characters of this original book they put into every fan fiction they wrote for years before writing the book you've just read.

I never know whether to laugh or to cry.

And yeah, I agree they needed more revision.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, no, I haven't even seen that and it makes me sad. Most of the time, I don't need to be told that someone wrote fanfiction. I know. It's... fairly obvious, not necessarily because their writing isn't very polished (though often times it isn't) or lacking in some skills that fanfic writers rarely develop such as characterization, plotting and world building (though it often is), but because it feels very shippy and trope-heavy in a heavy handed way that passes muster with fanfiction, but doesn't always fit well in original fiction.