[ SECRET POST #6971 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6971 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I tell people that I will read their fanfics... but then I never do... their writing styles and/or the subject matter of their fics just really don't appeal to me. But I keep writing my own fanfics and sharing them and they read them. I just feel bad I don't really want to return the favor.

[(Anonymous)]

There are people whose fics I do read-- people whose style I DO vibe with, sometimes people who I might not read if we were both in a big fandom but appreciate because they're the only other writer for a small one... but oh man, I felt so bad recently about someone whose fic I just could NOT read.

They said REALLY nice things about a fic I'm still really proud of my work on for a fandom I left (that is, I stopped watching the show however many seasons back)... and they linked me to a thing they wrote that for a variety of reasons I knew I could not read-- fandom and ship reasons, not quality of writing reasons! But I had really wanted to be able to.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, if you don't read reciprocally it's no big deal, but if you don't read any other fanfic but your own, I think you miss out on a lot.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't write but me with recs.
My friend for example recommended K-pop RPF AU fic because it was "good even without knowledge" and I noped out so hard

[(Anonymous)]

TBH there isn't really anything wrong with Secret OP not reading others' fics, but I get why it can bring up guilt or some sort of bad feeling.

When I read and wrote a lot, I felt obligated to read and share almost every fic that was rec'd to me. And honestly, after a while I just couldn't keep up with it all. The worst part was all of that drained a lot of energy from me that I would constantly lose motivation to write my own fics.
And it was a nasty cycle of feeling bad I wasn't reading fics rec'd by friends followed by feeling bad I wasn't writing and cycle it all over again.

I've taken a long break from writing fics, but I learned that if I read or write for a specific ship or fandom, I'm best only doing one, not both. Mostly because I burn myself out.