[ SECRET POST #5214 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5214 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's always slightly crap if they don't even want to try and improve. IDK, that seems to be one of the ways in which fandom has changed. I swear people used to put effort in, even if the results were variable. Whereas nowadays the main attitude seems to be give me attention and accolades without me having to polish my craft and tell a good story people will enjoy.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean... there was always crap in amounts vastly overwhelming the good stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. That's why I said 'with variable results'. I mean you gotta start somewhere, but still I remember everyone in my little junior fan comm back in the day forming writers circles and basically trying to improve at every turn.

[(Anonymous)]

But fandom is so much bigger nowadays, with so many more people participating at varying levels of commitment. Can't really say with certainty that there aren't still groups out here trying to improve. Just as you can't really say that people in fandom used to care more and just didn't manage to achieve good results... a lot of the bad fic posted ten, twenty years ago had just as little care and effort behind them.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been writing fanfic since the 1980s and there have ALWAYS been people who don't want to put any effort in.

Maybe not in your circles. Not really in my circles, either, because people who want to *try* to put out good work (even if they don't succeed) tend to find one another. But it was out there.

But I agree with the secret--if you're complaining about the lack of response to your fic, but aren't going to at least try to do the best you are personally capable of (even if that's just "run spellcheck" or "read the thing over before you hit 'post' to be sure that you haven't left in a paragraph of what looks like a history essay," and yes, I have read that), then I have no sympathy.