[ SECRET POST #2183 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2183 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Sorry for late, overslept.

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 067 secrets from Secret Submission Post #312.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Fun and improvement are not mutually exclusive. I write for fun, but I also want to get better at it. What's the fun in a hobby if you aren't trying your best at it? I want to be able to point at the things I've written and be proud of them.

[(Anonymous)]

Because the hobby itself is fun enough on its own? I don't give a rat's ass about the quality of the end result, and I don't need to hold it up as some great accomplishment.

[thene]

o I know, caring about your work (or anyone else's) would be so uncool and probably not ironic enough.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, no. I don't care about the quality of my work because I just don't care. I know it sucks, but that's not important to me because I had fun doing it. Is it really that hard of a concept for you?

[stainless]

Fun and improvement are not mutually exclusive. I write for fun, but I also want to get better at it.

Stop with this making sense!

[(Anonymous)]

On the flip side, improvement is not a requirement for fun.

[stainless]

No, but I think even most of the IT'S ONLY FUN OMG STFU U MEEN brigade improves over time. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard people talk about going back to look at their old fic from when they were 13, I'd be able to pay a few bills.

[(Anonymous)]

It's going to, yes, because people grow up and have new experiences that improve their writing. That doesn't mean every writer must sacrifice a goat to you for your opinion of their fic. You have a right to your opinion, and the author has a right to tell you and your opinion to fuck off.

[(Anonymous)]

Fucking this.

My own writing has improved drastically through the years. I can honestly say it isn't because of anyone's concrit, it's because of what I've learned studying books on style, grammar, the writings of other people, as well as professional experience as a proofer and exposure to the methods that professional editors use.

I am not opposed to concrit, and my friends don't hesitate to give it, but I've found over the years that I am my own best critic as I am not satisfied with my writing until it is perfect. A lot of my fanfic is being rewritten, or tagged "as is" and locked so my friends who have been enjoying that series can still read it.

I've learned that anyone who is genuinely interested in improving thier writing will say so and welcome good concrit. Otherwise all of this is just a massive non-issue to me.

[(Anonymous)]

The fun is the part where it's not work. My job involves crash carts and CPR and people occasionally being sheetwrapped and wheeled out to the morgue. My fic does not need to be great to help me get away from that and I don't have the time, energy or the will to try to become the next Shakespeare. I'd rather put my serious efforts into sending less people out the door in sheets, you know. Unless they clearly state it, you never know what somebody is getting out of writing fanfic. Don't assume it's the same thing you look for from yours.