[ SECRET POST #5930 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5930 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Will be missing a Friday post this week (traveling!). Just a heads up!

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Consider unclenching. It’s a shorthand.

[(Anonymous)]

Shorthand for.. "books"? I think "books" is short enough that it doesn't really need further abbreviation. Especially if the short version is one letter and a hyphen longer, LOL.

[(Anonymous)]

It's for "things being written with the goal of making a professional career out of them". Many of them are not books! In fact "pro fic" and variants has been used in a lot of fields as a shorthand to contrast short fiction publishers who pay pro rates from ones that don't. There are also many books written that aren't pro-fic.

[(Anonymous)]

From the text of the secret:

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From the text of the secret:

<b<"I saw one of the fandom authors refer to published books - with a pubisher and everything - as 'pro-fic'."</b>

So while <i>you</i> might be using the term "pro-fic" to refer to "things being written with the goal of making a professional career out of them", OP is talking about a very specific usage.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Not really? The person referring to published books as profic is not wrong. Profic is more than just books though, which is why the term is used and not simply "books." You can refer to drabbles as fanfic, and that's not wrong. Fanfic as a term means more than drabbles though.

You are the one being like "LOLOL WHY USE THIS TERM" so people are telling you why someone might, and why the context might be relevant. Especially if it was a conversation comparing fanfic and profic that OP is referencing. Or if someone is referring to books in a conversation about profic, it'd be an even more understandable usage.

Unless you are OP talking in third person about yourself, OP does not give any context so it could go either way.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not the OP, but I can see why they made this secret.

[(Anonymous)]

/shrug

Words generally have contextual uses. At least now you know and don't have to ask "WHY LOL" any more. Maybe OP has learned something as well

[(Anonymous)]

And there are also many things published as books that aren't profic even a little bit. Example: my master's dissertation. So, yes, it's useful to have a distinction and a word to describe it.