[ SECRET POST #5761 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5761 ⌋

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


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Notes:

I've just been deleting a lot of random secrets that are recycling ancient FS memes ("can't unsee these unrelated pictures, would hit random thing, I wish this scene had ended in 'hot non-con sex'") and one person that makes a different secret about a certain actor every week trying to be as wacky as possible.

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #825.
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

[fscom]

01. https://i.imgur.com/fGucVQZ.png

[tei]

lmao or else what, you'll demand your $0 back? I risk losing your valuable readership? I'm crushed...

[malurette]

No.

[(Anonymous)]

No. Also, fuck you.
Also, fuck off.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that fic under 2500 words is pointless. I guess at the end of the day that's people's prerogative if they wanna write it, but it is pointless.

[(Anonymous)]

Might want to "redraft and expand" this secret to grasp the bare minimum level of comprehension RE: fanfiction vs. professionally published works.

[(Anonymous)]

You realise stuff like poetry only meets the 2500 word minimum because they're posted in anthologies, right? The actual poems (i.e., works) are still less? As in, works of professionally published creative writing considered valuable enough to study in school? You understand this, yes?

[(Anonymous)]

Well the thing here is that fanfic isn't written for publication, so people can write as much or as little as they like regardless of how much that annoys you.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I find myself agreeing with this because there are people who can absolutely nail a flashfic premise, a little gut punch that is everything you needed, boiled down to 2000 words. I LOVE IT when I read a fic like that. But more often lately (especially in October), I'll read something around 3k that reads like the hook/intro for a story I would actually like to read, which can be disappointing.

Of course, fanfic is free and I'm not out there demanding anything, but I understand this feeling.

[(Anonymous)]

Piffle and poppycock.

[(Anonymous)]

I prefer fic around 2300 words. I like one-shots.

Fuck off.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought about politely suggesting that you filter by length. But since you apparently don't understand that if you don't think it's fanfic, then it is definitely not for you, I wasn't super sure you could figure out how to scroll on by. So, I decided to be direct and to the point. If you don't like, don't read.

By the way, just so you know, the minimum word count for posting is non-existent and if you think the minimum word count for publishing a short story is 2500 words, then I'll gladly stand with the rebels:

Words: 710 – Virginia Woolf – A Haunted House
Words: 762 – Fielding Dawson – The Vertical Fields
Words: 810 – Mark Twain – A Telephonic Conversation
Words: 994 – Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One of These Days
Words: 1274 – Saki (H H Munro) – The Open Window
Words: 1354 – Guy de Maupassant – The Kiss
Words: 1377 – Saki (H H Munro) – Mrs Packletide’s Tiger
Words: 1411 – Guy de Maupassant – A Dead Woman’s Secret
Words: 1429 – Guy de Maupassant – Indiscretion
Words: 1464 – Guy de Maupassant – Moonlight
Words: 1472 – Guy de Maupassant – Coco
Words: 1503 – Anton Pavlovich Checkhov – A Slander
Words: 1520 – Saki (H H Munro) – The Mouse
Words: 1552 – Guy de Maupassant – Yvette
Words: 1564 – William Carlos Williams – The Use of Force
Words: 1618 – Liam O’Flaherty – The Sniper
Words: 1624 – Guy de Maupassant – Farewell
Words: 1657 – Guy de Maupassant – Friend Patience
Words: 1691 – Guy de Maupassant – The Drunkard
Words: 1720 – Guy de Maupassant – The Christening
Words: 1764 – Guy de Maupassant – A Vendetta
Words: 1797 – Mark Twain – Luck
Words: 1830 – Saki (H H Munro) – Sredni Vashtar
Words: 1831 – Ambrose Bierce – The Boarded Window
Words: 1857 – Guy de Maupassant – Bellflower
Words: 1862 – Guy de Maupassant – In the Wood
Words: 1870 – Guy de Maupassant – The Dowry
Words: 1896 – Guy de Maupassant – The Unknown
Words: 1914 – Guy de Maupassant – A Family
Words: 1921 – Guy de Maupassant – Misti–Recollections of a Bachelor
Words: 1944 – Guy de Maupassant – Confessing
Words: 1978 – Anton Pavlovich Checkhov – The Lottery Ticket
Words: 2023 – Guy de Maupassant – A Humble Drama
Words: 2071 – Guy de Maupassant – Two Little Soldiers
Words: 2073 – E B White – The Door
Words: 2083 – Guy de Maupassant – Humiliation
Words: 2093 – Edgar Allan Poe – The Tell-Tale Heart
Words: 2098 – Rudyard Kipling – How the Leopard Got His Spots
Words: 2098 – Guy de Maupassant – The Hand
Words: 2106 – Guy de Maupassant – Old Mongilet
Words: 2109 – Saki (H H Munro) – The Storyteller (Saki)
Words: 2112 – Patrick Waddington – The Street That Got Mislaid
Words: 2149 – Mark Twain – A Burlesque Biography
Words: 2163 – O Henry – The Gift of the Magi
Words: 2208 – Guy de Maupassant – The Hairpin
Words: 2256 – O Henry – The Whirligig of Life
Words: 2284 – Guy de Maupassant – Denis
Words: 2350 – Mark Twain – Italian without a Master
Words: 2383 – Edgar Allan Poe – The Masque of the Red Death
Words: 2384 – Herman Melville – The Fiddler
Words: 2385 – Anton Pavlovich Checkhov – A Day in the Country
Words: 2385 – Guy de Maupassant – Waiter
Words: 2399 – James Joyce – Araby
Words: 2414 – O Henry – The Princess and the Puma
Words: 2421 – Dorothy Parker – A Telephone Call
Words: 2434 – Guy de Maupassant – Madame Parisse
Words: 2457 – Edgar Allan Poe – The Imp of the Perverse
Words: 2479 – Guy de Maupassant – Timbuctoo
Words: 2495 – Edgar Allan Poe – The Cask of Amontillado

[(Anonymous)]

And I think most fics over 100k are full of padding and would benefit greatly from editing.

A writer who can tell a strong story in fewer words deserves respect because that's an important skill. It will help you when you write longer works too.

Short stories and novels are both valid. Not everything needs to be novel-length.

[(Anonymous)]

For sale: OP's ability to mind their business, never used.

[(Anonymous)]

There are plenty of complete stories (slice of life, missing moments, etc) that work in that length. Longer doesn't automatically mean it is better. Sometimes, it just drags.

And "bare minimum for publication"? Please, this is fanfiction and it is free. Use AO3's word count filters and get over yourself.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay. I just looked at my top stories by kudos, and three are that short. They have over 25k kudos, so someone must like them despite me not begging people to subscribe and milking 100 chapters out of a premise.

[(Anonymous)]

Good attempt, solid A

[(Anonymous)]

When you learn about the concept of short stories, OP, it's gonna frazzle your tiny little mind.

[(Anonymous)]

What.

[dragonofeternal]

"absolute minimum for publication" Tell me you've never published short fiction without telling me you've never published short fiction, lol. Plenty of paying markets have an open minimum, to say nothing of the dedicated flash fiction scene.

Sure, some super-short fics are a barely fleshed out idea; others are telling a very compact story. Others still are a concept and are there to capture a brief image, mood, or scene in an almost poetic fashion. Not everyone has to like that sort of thing, and if you don't, that's why AO3 has filters for word count minimum.

[tasogare_n_hime]

That is certainly an opinion, and I'm sure most fic writers will be happy to go on no giving a fuck about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, that's true of all of *my* posted fics that short, because I'm not actually a very good writer at short length, and maybe of *yours*, if you also aren't, but I don't think it's true of everyone's.

[(Anonymous)]

Please stop encouraging people who think drabble and "short" are synonyms!

[(Anonymous)]

Just because you can't say anything meaningful in less than 2,500 words, doesn't mean the rest of us can't.

[(Anonymous)]

Man, I'd anticipated some of these replies when this popped up in the secrets thread but now I'm regretting not getting popcorn. Oh well, pizza combos will have to do.