[ SECRET POST #6312 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6312 ⌋

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


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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure you're not a bad as you think OP. But in any case you could always write it for yourself and never publish it, just because it's fanfic doesn't mean you have to put it anyway, especially if you're worried about your overall quality of writing.

I do this with certain types of ships that I know no one else will want to read, I write it for myself so I can read them and be happy. So if you want to I'd 100% suggest giving it a go, making yourself happy is a perfectly valid reason to create something even if it will only have an audience of one. Because imo there's never any wasted time with creative pursuits. :)

[beed]

you should do it anyway! there's always someone out there that wants to read what kinda story you're dreaming up.
and you might realize you're better at writing than you think once its posted!

[feotakahari]

There’s a good MLP fic (A Pony’s Sympathy) that has no narrative voice at all. Anything other than dialogue is just the flattest narration of what’s happening. It ends up working well, because it emphasizes the emotions the characters express in their dialogue.

[(Anonymous)]

"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"
"Practice, baby, practice."

Do you like pretty notebooks and nice pens? I wrote my first fics on paper and kept them in a literal drawer. Moved on to docs on my hard drive. Cringed less as I wrote more and felt like I got a little better. Don't be intimidated-- you are probably better than you think and you can get better than that. <3

[(Anonymous)]

Do your best and write for yourself, OP! I know my writing’s crap and I sometimes cringe through it, but I feel happier after I’ve written that plot bunny that’s been running around my head.

[arcanetrivia]

I'm curious what ships you're referring to here. 😏

[(Anonymous)]

so weirdly I have just started writing fic - just in a notebook, just for myself. I haven't done any kind of creative writing since high school and it shows. I know it's not good! it's all tell, no show, there's no real plot, but it's extremely fun to just be able to jot down scenes that have been rolling around in my head for ages. I have no idea if they'll ever make it out of my notebook but it's a lot more fun than I thought it would be

[(Anonymous)]

My writing was hideous when I started. Oh sure, the spelling and grammar were both fine, but the story was very dialogue driven because I couldn't write detail for shit. Which would be fine, but a lot of the dialogue was cringe too - I'd been fed a steady diet of soap operas and YA books up until then (and hadn't read many books up for a couple years up until then). You can imagine how those stories went when those "skills" were applied to canons I'd grown to love. Horribly childish dialogue, casual "isms" I had internalized up until then (a bad sign of the times, but I own it. I was an idiot), "witty" things that weren't actually witty at all, clunky description all around.

By comparison, the other writers had large vocabularies and well-thought out plots, and were pros at, um, prose. I had some good ideas... and struggled to get some of those across. I set aside a few for later, when I was a better writer. Some I had to outright abandon because I felt I wasn't the right person to tell that tale.

I'm still at it over 20 years later. I'd like to think I've gotten better during that time, maybe not on the level of pro, but I still have tales to tell and I'm enjoying myself. There was a benefit along the way - all those boring ass lessons in school, especially Language Arts/Literature? Because I started writing, I finally understand story structure.

The point is, if you really want to write, you have to start somewhere. And if you're not aiming for pro, that's fine too! Write how you want, write for anybody you want. If you only want to write for yourself, do that.

[(Anonymous)]

Then write it bad, imo