[ SECRET POST #5036 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5036 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 34 secrets from Secret Submission Post #721.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

(cozy werewolf anon)

Reading is reading. Can we PLEASE stop shaming people for reading.

I've read trad. I've read Indie. I've read fanfic.

There is a lot of 'not ready to be published' put out by all three. It's sturgeon's law. Trad pub novels are what publishers think will sell. There are 101 Twilight rip offs in YA. There are a TON of LKH Urban Fantasy rip offs in the Adult section. Everyone in epic fantasy is trying to rip off Tolkien and failing horridly. Scifi feels dead to me. Maybe you don't want to read epic fantasy from male authors and want it by female authors. (Good luck finding it.) I dunno.

Reading a book is an emotional investment. Novels aren't written with EVERY market in mind. Maybe trad pub doesn't think your market will sell like YA science fiction or Superhero stories not DC or Marvel or as someone said above, hurt/comfort or let's see A/B/O. (The A/B/O that is published is Indie pubbed.) Maybe the genre you like doesn't really exist like Weird Western or -pokes self- COZY Fantasy DRAMAS. Maybe you only have time for something super short and don't want to buy an anthology. So, fanfiction and Indie are there for you, we hope.

Putting time and money into something you aren't going to like is an exercise in frustration. It turns reading into a chore. And frustration and chores makes people stop reading. (I haven't touched indie books in over a month due to frustration/my health.) I stopped buying traditionally published novels when I found the quality to be no better than the fan fiction I was reading/and later original fiction I was writing. And I had to deal with a lot less rape/love triangles in fan fiction. (the rape is also usually warned for, woot. I can skip it.)

If you don't have a lot of money, choosing to read fanfic b/c it's free is a good choice. At least, you are STILL reading. Getting free books from Amazon from the indie slush pile made visible is a fine choice b/c you're STILL reading. If your library is awesome and carries the books you want to read, then that's cool too, at least you're reading!

It's so easy to turn people off to reading by telling them to read things they don't like or saying comics aren't books or fanfiction is legit. Shaming helps no one.

So, A+ controversial secret, I guess.