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fandomsecrets2012-05-18 06:55 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-05-18 06:55 pm
[ SECRET POST #1963 ]
⌈ Secret Post #1963 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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12. [SPOILERS for ASOIAF]
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17. [TRIGGER WARNING for suicide]
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19. [TRIGGER WARNING for abuse/rape? I think. better safe anyway]
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20. [TRIGGER WARNING for abuse]
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #280.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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(Anonymous) 2012-05-19 06:03 am (UTC)(link)I'm going to give you advice, actually , which I try very hard not to do under normal circumstances. But if I were you, I'd sit down with one of your friends and make him or her listen to you. Say right out at the beginning, "I know you think I'm a good writer and I have nothing to worry about, but there's something I'm struggling with and I need you to listen to me."
The problem with the explosion of Internet fandom in general is that there's soooooooo much writing out there. And if you take away the one-shots written by preteens at four in the morning (not to disparage the kids who are brilliant writers) -- usually in every fanfic, there's something that speaks to someone. I know now that I'm hopelessly in love with a certain fic (I won't give the title or I'll out myself, I've been gushing all over the place) -- but I mean, it makes a difference. I have a playlist on my ipod with the same title as the fic. I think about it while I'm working. Metaphors from the fic come into my mind when I'm brooding about other things and change the patterns of the rest of my thoughts. The double edged sword to Internet fandom is that, while it makes it possible for fics written by normal people like us, who may haev writing weaknesses as well as strengths, to touch people we don't even now, it also makes the pool of fic out there so impossibly large that we don't get enough feedback to have a good idea of our own strengths and weaknesses.
I think what I'm getting at is, I don't know you (and I'm not guessing or anything like that), but I'd suspect you have strengths you don't know about. You weren't getting undeserved praise. BNFs are people Just Like Us. I get that you wish you could go back to your old picture of your own writing. I believe you can -- I don't know what it'll take to get there, and it's obviously not just recognition, but don't give up.
I'm in an almost opposite situation. I've put various fics out there that really mattered to me. And (I don't think this is a personal attack) -- the pool of fic out there is just so large that very few people tend to see my work -- and unless I write something for a specific person, I don't feel comfortable telling my friends to go read my fic (that defeats the purpose -- I'm writing it to benefit people). I can't tell you how many people have told me to just write for myself -- but that's called daydreaming, y'know? I haven't pulled down a lot of my old work -- but I did pull down a couple of particularly embarrassing Buffy novels. Now I just write when people ask me to. If I have a request, then I nkow that it will benefit the person who made the request, and that's really all that matters -- I don't have to be personally invested. I'm not a writing genius and I'll never be a BNF, but I'm not too bad, but that doesn't matter -- I ask "why bother" every time I pick up a metaphorical pen.