[ SECRET POST #789 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #789 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 129 secrets from Secret Submission Post #113.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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[distorted-r.livejournal.com]

114. I mostly agree with this, aside from the mary-sue insert fanfictions. Here's the reality about those:

1. We all have these fantasies in our heads about being a character in a fandom and interacting with everyone.
2. They are fun to think about.
3. They might even be fun to write about if it helps you enjoy them more.
4. When it comes to these self-insert fantasies, we only are interested in our own.
5. NO ONE ELSE WANTS TO READ or HEAR ABOUT THEM. NO ONE. WE DON'T CARE.
6. They clog up fanfiction.net anyway and ruin otherwise decent fanfictions, because, hey, we want to read about the fandom, not about your OC you inserted in there. You might have a good fanfciton idea and all the other characters might be IC, but your OC is like a cockroach in the middle of the most perfect ice cream sundae.

There, otherwise, fine. I don't think we have a write to judge anyone else based on writing style/ability or drawing a style/ability, aside from the occasional constructive criticism if the maker so desires.

Re: 114

[mimes.livejournal.com]

I never saw the point in Mary Sues, honestly. If I had fantasies about being in a fandom, I'd rather imagine myself doing it than some character doing it for me. Then I figured that the thought in itself was embarassing (when I was thirteen, I thought I was the only person who did this) so I wouldn't post it. I'm with you there, though, no one is interested in your self-insert fantasies other than the yourself.

Of course, back in those days I wrote a few OCs, but I never made them do what I wanted to do.

Re: 114

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

I think Mary Sues get a pass with everything else because it's actually pretty easy to do it accidentally. Sometimes OCs are necessary, and easy to fall in love with on the author's part. Then it snowballs, they're suddenly the main character, and you can't even kill them off because it would just be another cliché. For an inexperienced writer, it's hard to avoid the Mary Sue trap, and some of them don't even realize they're doing it.

(I'm speaking as the Guilty >.> Thank goodness I'm not a teenager anymore.)

So for me, it's another case of experience versus inexperience. The only way someone can figure out it's bad writing is for someone else to gently take them by the hand and say, "Sweetie... pink/purple/blue sparkle hair, half-vampire/half-unicorn and a giant mecha... I have some bad news for you." That takes putting it in a public place.

I try to think of it as the price of having no entry exams. Unpleasant, but hopefully they'll get better before the next generation starts the cycle over.

[/two cents]