[ SECRET POST #5551 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5551 ⌋

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


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[Iron Widow, by Xiran Jay Zhao]



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03.
[Venom]


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04. https://i.imgur.com/M0aDyxc.png
[OP warned for NSFW image]


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06. [SPOILERS for In Sound Mind]
























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #794.
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

Writing Thread

[ofc_nonny]

Hello! It's been a while since I've made a thread for writing! General discussions, questions, rants, vents, celebrations, anything related to writing, please tell me what's been going on.

Re: Writing Thread

[philstar22]

Well, I've got two fics going right now. The first is the one I want to be writing, my take on the creation of the One Ring.

But the second is what I've actually been writing because that's where my muse is at the moment. It is a trashy, porny self-cest PWP that is just ridiculous. And yet, it is fun to write too.

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I joined a writing group recently but the Discord is really dead. Disappointing.

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Lots of RL stuff going on and I appear to have lost the ability to write as a result. :(

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

About to orphan a ton of fic. Turns out I big time have favorite stories, and end up resenting the fics I like less but do better with kudos. Fuck 'em. Into the wild they go!

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for keeping them up on AO3!

Re: Writing Thread

[ofc_nonny]

What do you think about being a fanfic reader and a fanfic writer?

I personally read a lot of Game of Thrones fanfics but have never (and probably will never) write any fics for the fandom.

My main fandom, I don't read a lot of fics in the fandom, but I write a lot for it.

Also, I'm very critical of my own works but as a reader, I tend to be forgiving. Even if a fic falls under a lot of bad fanfic cliches so long as the premise and characters keep me engaged I'll read it.

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I have a lot of fandoms, but I only write for maybe three of them. I'm in the middle of writing a series for one of them and it's kinda daunting 'cause I know where I want it to go, but it's gonna take a lot of work and I'm not very confident in my abilities. I read fic for all my fandoms and, as long as the fic hits all my favorite tropes and doesn't have too many errors or isn't super OOC, I'll be happy with it. I'll always leave kudos on fics I liked, but I'm a teensy bit petty with comments because I won't leave one if the author doesn't reply to their comments.

Re: Writing Thread

[pantswarrior]

I kind of stopped reading fanfic when I started writing Star Trek because I was worried that with such a big fandom, anything I wrote would have already been written - and in fact a little ways into writing a story, I was recced a really popular fic that turned out to have some similarities to what I was writing, and I immediately thought "oh no what if people think I'm copying this fic? Or some other fic? Or what if I unconsciously adopt someone else's headcanon and it affects the story I would write?" So I stopped reading Trek fic until after I'd finished writing that story... and just kind of never started again because I had more to write that I didn't want to be accused of copying anyone else on.

And then I just kind of... kept doing that with other fandoms. If I was writing in it, I didn't want to read in it because if someone else had written something similar then I could say with absolute certainty that no, what I wrote was not derivative of any other story.

And yeah, I was way more forgiving with other people's stuff than with mine. I will sit here and agonize over one sentence that doesn't flow right. If I saw that in another person's fic, I'd just move on to the next sentence, if I even noticed. :P I guess the thing is, I don't have control over other people's fic and assume they're doing the best they can - and it's fanfic so that should be enough, and I appreciate it. I do have control over my own fic, however, and I am a perfectionist so nothing I do is ever good enough.

Re: Writing Thread

[pantswarrior]

Spent today rereading the last third of one of my past fanfics and rather than going back to one of my active WIPs that have been sitting around for the last couple months or the new PWPish thing that spawned in my brain this week, now I want to go back to rewriting what I had of another lengthy story before I took a ten year hiatus. And maybe this time actually finish it.

But uh, I already have two other lengthy things I was in the middle of that just kinda... disappeared. And that's just in my one currently active fandom, never mind the stuff in Trek and Final Fantasy and Ace Attorney. -_-

I just would like my brain to decide on one of the long chaptered things I have in progress and let me finish it, because I really like writing long chaptered things. Even if there's almost zero people who have the time to read them, haha.

(Note: This is why I don't post long chaptered fic anymore until it's actually complete. Sigh.)

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I wish I was more disciplined with my writing. I've had a fic outlined for two weeks, but I just barely started writing half of the first chapter this morning. I'm also getting distracted by another fic idea that I've been itching to write, but that one's gonna be really long and plotty and I have to devote my attention to just one idea or I won't finish either.

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I'm struggling with my current story because it needs a lot of hashing before I can start writing it and my usual friend isn't around when I am anymore for some reason and my other friend that offered to step up and help was like 'maybe you need a break from writing' and then logged off because they were tired and going to sleep. I just need someone to help me figure out POV and certain plot beats so I can write - I don't WANT to take a break, I want to write this story. But their advice was 'let it simmer' but I feel like that's their own self-admitted burnout talking and I'm unhappy. I've never struggled so much with a story before and I don't know where to go from here or what I should be working on.