[ SECRET POST #5036 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5036 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, you're going to get some serious backlash for this, but I agree. "But fanfiction has exactly what I waaaaaaaaaaant and I don't have to search for it" is the usual argument. I find that kind of cringe inducing, myself. I also wonder at the people who are so amazing at finding that sweet spot fic every time, apparently.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, that's a pretty compelling argument if you're specifically comparing fanfic to romance or something like that! It's not like every book ever written is Proust.

[(Anonymous)]

Thing is: unless it's a novel-length fic I won't have wasted several hours or days on something I end up hating if it sucks. Whereas I get pretty frustrated when that happens with published book.

[philstar22]

There is this. Although I'm a fast reader, the stuff I read these days just tends to be shorter for the most part across the board unless it is highly recommended and it sounds super interesting and I have the time. Because I'm the type of person who will get hooked on a story and then have trouble putting it down. I've been known to stay up all night reading a book or novel-length fic. So I'm not even reading that much novel-length fic these days.

[(Anonymous)]

You... keep reading something until the end even if you don't like it? Why?

[(Anonymous)]

Some of us are just like this. I always have to finish a book I started even if it makes me absolutely batty.

[(Anonymous)]

Train yourself out of the habit. It's not some deep psychological need, even if you have convinced yourself it is.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol what? Psychological need? It's just a hangup, the way that some people can't eat certain textures or sleep without performing certain routines. Imma keep doing me.

[(Anonymous)]

Plenty of books turn to shit in the last third or so.

[(Anonymous)]

da

Depending on when a book flips over from "this is okay" to "fuck this book", it's entirely possible to spend hours or days on it before you realize it's something you dislike. A lot of books start out promising, then take a hard left at some point, or bloat and sag in the middle, or taper out in a wet fart because the author signed on for a trilogy and decided to just not resolve any of the major plot threads in the first book.

[(Anonymous)]

"I also wonder at the people who are so amazing at finding that sweet spot fic every time, apparently."

Ugh, THIS! The only reason I still seek fanfic regularly at all is because I'm bored and stubborn as hell. I go to AO3 almost daily and almost never find a fic I can read all the way through because they're all so bad.

I think part of it is because fic can be OOC and often is, and that's not a problem original fiction can have because the characters are already OCs. But even without that, most published works at least have proper spelling and grammar, paragraph breaks, and use characters names instead of their hair colors.

[(Anonymous)]

God, the hair- and eye-color description trend needs to die.