[ SECRET POST #5659 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5659 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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?

[(Anonymous)]

+100

[(Anonymous)]

This!

[(Anonymous)]

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

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes there is, and I drew that distinction in my first response. It's also clearly not what is meant by OP.

[(Anonymous)]

Then why are you the only one crowing about it?

[(Anonymous)]

Um.

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

[(Anonymous)]

Not really. It's extremely common for writers, artists, etc to feel this way. It's how people get better at their hobbies or professions.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

But there’s absolutely no indication that OP didn’t improve from those fics. You can think your earlier stuff was good while still finding things to improve. You’re pulling a lot of assumptions about what OP thinks from nowhere, and treating it like it’s a fact. They didn’t give enough to go on other than they like their fics for you to be extrapolating that they didn’t see anything to improve at the same time.

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[(Anonymous)]

A red flag that their writing is shit.

[(Anonymous)]

Nayrt

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

[(Anonymous)]

god, fuck off

[(Anonymous)]

Backatcha bud.

[(Anonymous)]

Da

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

[(Anonymous)]

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

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[(Anonymous)]

pls touch grass

[(Anonymous)]

how do you have your head so far up your own ass

[(Anonymous)]

Grow up. You think you’re better and smarter than OP, but it’s obvious to everyone else that you aren’t. You’re pretentious and childish.

[(Anonymous)]

They’re not bragging; that’s why it’s a secret, genius.

I also think my fic is great. I’m a BNF in one fandom and one of a crowd (but not a clique) in others, and I have other logins to write smut sometimes, etc., and weirdly enough, most of that has hundreds of kudos.

I am objectively very good at writing things fans enjoy. That doesn’t make me Marquez, but it does mean I’m good at fic.