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[ SECRET POST #5659 ]

⌈ Secret Post #5659 ⌋

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Was with you until that last line. If you are rereading your own older stuff and can't see how it could be improved -even while enjoying it- then that just screams mediocre self-congratulatory author I'm afraid. Know that from long long experience.

You can be proud of your past self for doing a good job even if it's not perfect. What do you write fanfic for if not self-satisfaction?

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This!

There's being proud of yourself and then there's thinking your own work is 'great'. The second is a red flag usually.

NAYRT

Benefit of the doubt is that the bar is set low and OP is in fact really great.

Additionally, we all have different tastes, and if OP thinks what they did is great, well? What's the big deal? They're clearly the one of the only ones saying anything positive about their fic, since they get little to no traction. Look at some of the fics in any fandom that get boasted as the best thing since sliced bread, enlightened writer, prose was on par with X writer, etc. Etc. And then you read it and wonder wtf was everyone else reading, finding it to be somewhere between mediocre and entertaining at best.

I look back and there's stuff I've written that was alright, not the best, but damn did I enjoy it, had fun writing it,and the maybe 5 or so kudos clearly enjoyed it too, and so when I look back on it, I think it may fall somewhere under really good and great. That's not amazing or life changing, but damn was it good, so good I'd read it again.

Anyway, I'm just a fan of enjoying your own work and feeling good about yourself. I know I'm like this because I'm often my worst critic and don't allow myself to create at all, and then proceed think negatively about myself and my work. So with anything I do make, I try not to be so harsh and cruel to myself when looking at it. Which is why I'm, I guess, trying to bring another angle. I get where you're coming from of course, but sometimes a person just needs a little hyping up. Not to get them up their own ass about how ~amazing~ they are, but just to feel good about themselves, like they accomplished something and it's not actual shit.

No. Any assessment by somebody of their own work as great usually means the exact opposite. If someone else tells me it's great, then there's cause for interest.

There's a difference between thinking your own work is "great" as in Pulitzer caliber, and thinking your own work is "great" as in it's a really enjoyable piece that mostly achieved what it set out to do. I think you're hung up on the word.

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Um.

I think you've got a self-image problem, bud.

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lol, a red flag for what? it's fanfic. op hasn't even stated that they're trying to improve as a writer and by own admission they're no bnf in fandom so why can't they think their fics are great? could you be any more pretentious? honest I think *that's* a red flag.

A red flag that their writing is shit.

Nayrt

Nah. The red flag is that you’re up your own ass.

god, fuck off

Backatcha bud.

Da

You’re getting more pathetic the more you post and double down.

You sound like someone who self-deprecates out loud about your work and secretly thinks it's the best shit ever.

Wish I was. Sadly not. More to the point, all the truly good writers I know don't sit around smugly describing their work as great. There are usually aspects they like, but it's never quite as good as they were striving for because their own expectations are so high. Maybe I'm just lucky to know some actually talented people though who don't revel in their mediocrity.

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Dude chill, OP probably just meant their own fic has everything *they* look for in fic they never said it's gonna win the Pulitzer

oh calm down, it ain't that deep.

You are the fun one, I see

OP enjoys their work, chill out

DA

I do think some of my past work is pretty great - for me. I write first and foremost to please myself, and sometimes I succeed. There's nothing wrong with being glad about that. Is there room for improvement? Of course. Always. Doesn't mean I don't enjoy re-reading my stuff over and over though.

There's frankly too much pressure on authors to be self-deprecating, IMO. I hate it.

This instant need to shut down any sense of confidence, I don't get. Why does every comment need to come with all sorts of add-ons so that people don't misconstrue the intention because people are so eager to shit on someone for the smallest things that can be interpreted in some negative way? So sick of this shit.

Have these people so quick to shit on anyone displaying any form of confidence thought that these sorts of writers aware of their shortcomings but there isn't always a fucking need to point it out? If OP is feeling down that no one really interacts with their works but wants to cheer themselves up by enjoying their fics why are you so fucking pressed that they're admitting that they find their works "great"? Like, get the fuck over yourself.

I honestly feel this is pretentious artist bullshit where someone has to point out how deep they are that they're the only ones always looking to improve and anyone who can't be critical to their past works are amateur and are the reasons why fanfics are so shit. Like, I'm getting so fucking sick of public platforms being used as a place for people to perform their suffering in terms of their art. We're fucking talking about fanfics. Let people enjoy their fanfics, good God.

There are people who play the dramatic for this, the 'suffering artists'. However, being self-critical isn't actually a bad thing. It's how people improve. Revelling in self-congratulatory mediocrity is far more the obnoxious attitude, especially when complaining about a lack of response - which is the usual accompanying complaint. Although in OPs case, that is impossible to measure as a result of their skills because they write rarepairs and small fandoms. Which is why I haven't mentioned that.

They haven't said anything about actually wanting to improve? And getting more response in fandom has very little to do with skill level anyway. OP can just switch fandom/pairing and instantly boost engagement 1000%, no self-critical flagellation needed.

+a million

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