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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-10-07 03:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2105 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2105 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 107 secrets from Secret Submission Post #301.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2012-10-08 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Really, because I think more fandom fic writers should read actual books. If I never see another post asking for help with a story that goes "So I've got a Bruiser, a Lancer, and a White Haired Pretty Boy who Crash Into Hello's a Moe Moe Kyun Kyun Iyaaa Onii-Chan and sees her panties and I'm trying to calculate how Regenerating Health would work when..." it will be too soon.

But, seriously, like other posters before me have said, fanfic and fandom can become a hugbox that encourages and perpetuates word choices and stylistic habits in writing that not only are cliched, ineffective, and irritating, but are instantly recognizable to me when they make their ways into published books as being the work of people who have spent time in fandom. There's nothing inherent about it that provides people the instant tools to make their writing better, it's just a lot of people, some of whom might have good advice that you could possibly encounter at some point.

I'm also slightly baffled that you see these things that are fandom things and the conclusion that maybe the writer is (or was) in fandom and that that is why they write that way apparently never even occurred to you? Who says they can't have learned it in the exact place you think would fix the problem?