[ SECRET POST #2109 ]

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⌈ 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 ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is a trap I fell into years ago when writing my first (and only) long!fic. There's a lot of causes.

- Author burnout. It's a lot of work to write longer works and not many people really want to dedicate possibly hours a night to it.
- There's only so much you can do with a subject. If your premise has been done a dozen times by different authors, or if you're writing a fic that is very slice-of-life samey, you run out of things to say and ways to say them.
-Lack of an outline. If you don't know clearly where the story is going, and the steps its taking to get there, it's easy to get lost along the way.
- The first few chapters get the most editing, if you're posting the story as a WIP.

And then there's the desire to please the readers. This is the big trap I fell into. I expected the story to be a novel-length fish-out-of-water story with a dash of political intrigue and the horrors of medieval warfare, with the MCs getting together near the end. But I really felt a lot of pressure from my reviewers to get them noticing each other a lot sooner because it was a tiny fandom and I didn't want to disappoint anyone. (My fic was literally the only fic over 10,000 words, so I felt like a cocktease.)

And you can't rule out that maybe they just aren't a very good writer. It's all well and good to say "The MCs aren't OOC they just have changed because of circumstances." But if the author doesn't show that, and if the events aren't enough that the audience can see WHY the characters have changed, then it's bad writing.