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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-03-21 03:55 pm

[ SECRET POST #1539 ]


⌈ Secret Post #1539 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 213 secrets from Secret Submission Post #220.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2011-03-21 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know how you feel :(

My "fandom"- if you can even call it that - has about six fics in all. One of them is a smutty one-shot I wrote on a dare,the rest are... not very good, to put it mildly (by which I don't mean to imply that mine's particularly better, just that I'm not objective and don't want to either praise or bash it).

Yesterday, I found a fic I hadn't seen before, and it's better than anything I'll ever be able to write.

I nearly fucking cried.

... but then, I figured I'd read it. Once, twice, maybe more. I'll try to pinpoint what the author does better than I do - for example, I'm quite good with dialogue, not bad with scene-setting, but I fail hard at long, overarching plots. The fic in question has a clear storyline - I'll read it especially to see how the plot points are introduced, what the structure looks like etc. In short, I'll learn.

The next thing I write still won't be as good as said fic (learning to plot well is a hard thing to master), but I've decided to turn my feelings of inadequacy into a challenge. I figured, hey, since I'm struggling with depression anyway, I want to turn at least this tiny thing into something good.

And that's it for today's installment of My Life and Fandom, lol.

For what it's worth, OP, please accept a virtual hug :)

[identity profile] nadinthedreamer.livejournal.com 2011-03-21 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe you'll read some books about wrightig to improve your plots? They say Stephen King has written one really good. That might be helping. (Just trying to make an advice.)

If your fandom has only six fics - that's awfull! I know, I've been in one with five fics once. Oh, the times of suck and despair...

[identity profile] classic-mold137.livejournal.com 2011-03-21 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I totally reread sections of the book from my university writing workshop class when writing fanfic. I think I might be taking the whole thing too seriously.