[ SECRET POST #5036 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5036 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So like I think the way this is phrased is really annoying - some stuff written as fanfiction is really great, plenty of published fiction is awful shit, there's no one royal road where consuming a specific kind of content leads automatically to enriching your life or being a better kind of person - but I also think I basically agree with the underlying point. People should seek out weird stuff and there is definitely an attitude some people take on where they're proud of having really narrow limited interests and it seems pretty crappy, especially if they're reading the most cookie cutter iddy fanfics. Be curious!

[(Anonymous)]

It's good for the soul and good for the brain to be exposed to new ideas, grapple with new characters and conflicts and unpredictability; when this discourse started I did clock that, shit, it's been a solid year plus since I read a NOVEL and went out and grabbed something immediately. I didn't get the instant dopamine rush I do with fic, and that ended up feeling kind of important in hindsight.

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[(Anonymous)]

+1 People get rather defensive about fanfiction and always bring up the fact that there are poor quality published novels out there as well. I don't think anyone's ever claimed otherwise, of course. But I view fanfiction as something I enjoy a lot, but an exclusive diet of it isn't as good for me as a steady diet of just poptarts would be. There's nothing wrong with poptarts. It's just good to have a variety.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure that OP is very much implying that published fiction is enormously superior to fanfiction. Not only that, but OP is also implying one's consumption of either is tied to their education levels. It's not so surprising people would point out that not all published fiction is great, or that they would get defensive.

Seriously, let people what they want to read. It's not their problem if someone else hates their enthusiasm.

[(Anonymous)]

I read around 400 books a year (actually published books). I used to read fanfiction a lot, but now my expectations are too high for being able to read fanfiction anymore. I'm talking about objective quality, I don't need to like something in order to understand it's well written. The lack of text quality bugs me in fanfiction and it's hard to find quality texts from the mass of turd. Thus I started writing my own eventually and damn those stories are good.

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DA

This. Plus, checking out stuff that may not be your genre or style, or reading something that you wound up not liking, can be just as helpful for your writing abilities as reading stuff you do enjoy. It can help you better understand and figure out why you don't like certain things in stories, or help you learn what stuff to avoid in your own writing, or things of that sort.

[(Anonymous)]

This! Books I've read but haven't liked, I can at least have a discussion about what didn't work and why.