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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-10-11 06:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #2109 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2109 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #301.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
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(Anonymous) 2012-10-11 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It's really easy for a longfic author (especially one posting serially) to get absorbed by her own fictional world and sort of lose track of canon. Especially if it's been going on for months or years and she might not even care about canon any more. And a lot of times people who have been reading along get pulled in and start liker her version better than canon's, too, and it becomes a feedback spiral.

If you read a lot of longfic wips you just have to learn to recognize it and be prepared to either bow out or start pretending it's original fic (depending on whether you like the author's characters or not.)

(Anonymous) 2012-10-12 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
This is the perfect description for this phenomenon.

(Anonymous) 2012-10-12 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
And this is why some authors leave their longfics as WIPs no matter how much people beg them to keep going. Not only have they lost interest in their fic, they've lost interest in canon. Their writing style might have changed to the point they look back at the fic and think, "this is a piece of crap" and abandon it.