[ SECRET POST #185 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #185 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 104 secrets from Secret Submission Post #027.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 ] broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] personal attack.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 10th, 2007.
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Comments

Reposted for grammar.

[good-odds.livejournal.com]

Not really. His book got rejected from several publishing companies for not being good enough, so his parents published it for him. And then a big deal was made out of his age and the book became a best-seller because everyone was all hung up on him being ZOMG ONLY A TEENAGER ONEONONEONEONEELEVENTYTWELVE that people ended up buying the book, assuming he must be a good writer to get published so young. But one read-through and it becomes readily apparent that Eragon was, in fact, written by a teenager.

He may or may not have worked hard, but that's not how he got where he is today. He owes his success to a combination of nepotism (mostly nepotism, actually), sensationalism and dumb luck.

Re: Reposted for grammar.

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

...Aah, I see. I was just impressed cause the guy is MY age and supposedly has the same learning disorder as me and he got published, so I was like "Wow, that means I can be famous too!". >.> Idealistic girl-dreams, and in the end I guess it's better I didn't get published so early, cause my old writing sucked rocks.

Re: Reposted for grammar.

[good-odds.livejournal.com]

Aww! *hugs* I can understand that, actually. I always used to have daydreams about getting published ridiculously young, even though most books written by really young authors don't turn out very good.

Re: Reposted for grammar.

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks. Yeah, if I'd gotten published at 15 I'd be among the ranks of GodAwful Professional Books. My first actual fanfics were in script format and I was awful at writing narrative, dialogue was stilted, etc.

Re: Reposted for grammar.

[good-odds.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've totally been there. Well, not so much the script format thing - I never really did that - but my earliest writing endeavors were full off bad dialogue, choppy narratives and Sue-ish characters. (I didn't get into fanfiction until I'd already been writing original fiction for several years.)