[ 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:

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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.