[ SECRET POST #5360 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5360 ⌋

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


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[Bridgewater podfic series]


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[Fullmetal Alchemist]


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[It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia]


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[Spirited Away]


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[Legend of Dragoon]


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[One Piece / Gangsta.]








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Comments

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07. https://i.imgur.com/NRLF4oE.jpg
[One Piece / Gangsta.]

[(Anonymous)]

First of all, a Gangsta. Secret!!!!

Second of all, go ahead and just write it -- a few scenes if that's all you get. Even if those scenes are one rejecting the other (I totally get you re: character A is rejecting B from another fandom). But why not? As you said, there's at least one other person out there here for it, and you never even have to post. I really get the whole I want to but I'm not doing anything about it. It sucks. The one thing that I kind of turn to is just to start with something small. Whether it's compiling a "soundtrack" to half the fic on my head, or just jotting down a few scenes/interactions. Granted, I struggle to even do that sometimes, and I rarely finish but still!!!


Do you know why you're torn/stuck between wanting and inaction? I'm just (irrationally) afraid of making something. I'm working on being okay with things not being beautiful or perfect or anything. I think I'm a way I used to be freer about my writing when I was younger. I didn't feel like I needed permission, and now I'm learning how not to ask it and just go.

I hope you write your dream fic (or find someone who'd be willing to write it for you!)

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Op here,
thanks so much for your encouragement, that's so sweet. I think I'll try your method and just start with writing down some notes for scenes and stuff. One of my biggest problems is that I usually can't jump around much in the timeline, say, I can't start with writing the last scene of the story, then jump back to the middle, jot down something from the start and go back somewhere else. I need to write (mostly) chronologically (if it's a couple of scenes from the start I don't mind writing the third scene before the first e.g.), 'cause more often than not my ideas evolve and start their own dynamics and a lot of material comes spontaneously. So I don't want to write a scene from the ending when it most likely will end up wildly modified from everything happening before, sometimes even not happening at all 'cause the plot deviated completely at some point. Also I have a tendency to abandon longer stories since life always comes inbetween and I am a slow writer to begin with (comes with my weird editing while still writing style). And I absolutely know the feeling of being irrationally afraid of making something, but I noticed that for me it helps to put down a rough outline of what I want to write on the first page and then start writing in that very same file so I can trick myself into thinking this is just trying things out when actually I started writing for real. It kind of helps that you can always dismiss it as the 'notes & ideas' file. I am ok with things not being perfect but before I start writing I am always a bit scared of the work not turning out like it is in my mind, which it never does and more often than not I get better ideas while going along with it or maybe they are not better just different but somehow they work out it the end. Of course I have also written stuff that somehow failed to deliver what I was trying to go for and I wasn't happy about it but it also wasn't such a tragic thing to happen that I just accepted it. I think in our minds writing is so much scarier than it turns out to be, sure it is tough and can be frustrating but when it doesn't work you can always try again another time.

So yeah, with longfics I need to get over the idea that I am scared to abandon it, so I'd rather just not start it at all.

Thanks so much for your encouraging, sweet words, I really appreciate it. And I hope you'll find a lot of freedom and enjoyment in writing your own works. If you still feel the need to ask for permission, don't look outside for it, ask yourself. You can always give yourself the permission to go wild. Keep writing!

[(Anonymous)]

A One Piece secret that mentions ZoSan! Yessss.

OP, I agree with the above anon. Just write what you've got, have some fun with it. It'll get the plotbunny out and there's at least one other person who'd love it. Life's too short to deny yourself the things you want~

[(Anonymous)]

Gangsta c: