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⌈ Secret Post #2220 ⌋

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I'm reading an epic-length fic that updates seldom. Many of the readers discuss how long the delays are, and then say "[the author] says they have writer's block, but they're totally addicted to twitter! Oh, they say RL is taking up writing time? But they're on twitter every other minute!"

What are your thoughts on this? I'm trying as hard as I can to keep my own opinion out because I want to see how a different set of people react to hearing this.

I think those readers are pushy and whiny. Tweeting is nothing like full-on writing, at all. Bitching because the author has real life things to attend to? Class act.

Uh, that writing on Twitter has very little to do with writer's block or real life? Writers block is a block in storytelling. Twitter is not storytelling. Twitter is also something you can do simultaneously while doing other RL things.

This reminds me of when my roommate was home sick basically spending the entire day puking or playing online games, and his coworkers accused him of faking because they saw that he was logged in playing games. Like...what, you expect people who are sick to not do anything at all? You expect people with writers block to not be able to string a single sentence together in any form at all?

:\ I would ask the coworkers why they were logged in when they should be working.

*snickers* Good call.

wellll... maybe they're tweeting about RL events. Maybe they just wanted to take a break from writing for a while. Maybe they're procrastinating.

You can't kidnap them, tie them down and force them to write. (OK technically you could but that would be illegal.)

Twitter takes less than zero effort. If RL is draining right now and someone doesn't have the energy to write, or if they're anxious about their writing, that's okay.

I don't think there's an excuse if it's just chapter after chapter of porn. If there's more plot than porn, or in fact just plot, then you may have to wait because plot can be complex to construct especially if it's a long fic taking on a lot and the writer has to make sure they're not painting themselves into a corner.

So even being on Twitter all the time doesn't mean they're not plotting on the side.

I find porn more difficult to write than plot sometimes so I disagree.

Writing takes me forever though, and it might be the same way for the other person. I once got through 6K in three days and felt like I had run a marathon. Twitter is so different. It takes very little effort.

I find porn more difficult to write than plot sometimes so I disagree.

Agreed. I have exactly once written a sex scene that I thought was even passable.

I have a lot of issues with my writing in general, but I can get actual stories to the point I think I want to share them. Sex? Nyope.

This. I rp [which, admittedly, isn't exactly like writing fic either], but it takes me forever to reply in porn tags - as people I've rped smut will tell you. It's not that I'm not working on it, or too busy. I just keep picturing cheesy 70's porn music playing while I write, and it's next to impossible for me not to crack up. When that happens every few sentences...well. It takes a while.

Without reading other responses yet, I say tweeting is not the same as writing fic, so calling foul on writer's block is dumb. I'd have to be more familiar with the writer and their twitter habits to make a judgment call on the RL issue.

Either way, complaining in that manner is obnoxious.

Sometimes I brainstorm on Twitter with other fen. Maybe there's a plot point that has me stymied. Maybe I've backed myself into a corner and can't find my way out. Sometimes I need to get out of my head for a little while and let my subconscious do the thinking. There are lots of reasons I might be on Twitter and not actively writing.

I think a) those readers are kind of being assholes for complaining that someone is not providing them with free entertainment fast enough, especially when that person is in no way being compensated, b) Twitter takes all of two seconds so even if the author abandoned it entirely s/he wouldn't necessarily have gained any writing time at all, and c) it's none of their business what the author is doing with his/her spare time.

Entitlement from readers is obnoxious. There is no excuse to talk as if you have the right to the time of someone you don't know who makes things for free. None.

Screw them, I can be not in the mood to write anything, that doesn't impede on my ability to do other things. It can't be helped.

Thank you all, you have reinforced what I thought. It was becoming so commonplace to talk bitterly about said author being on twitter instead of writing that I was starting to think I had it wrong, thinking those complainers were being entitled, nosy little bitches.

To be fair, the author does seem to have a twitter addiction -- they're on literally all the time. I know people who had to stop following them because of the spam. But damn it I think it sucks that people are trying to control an author's use of time.

But damn it I think it sucks that people are trying to control an author's use of time.

Ergh, this. Writing fanfic isn't the same as writing professionally - fanfic authors can do whatever the hell they want with their time, whether that's constantly babbling to Twitter or whatever. I get stuck on things all the time and end up doing something else so I can clear my head; I'd be really offended if I had a WIP fic posted and my readers bitched that I was somehow faking my block because I was on WoW all the time or something :/ It'd probably turn me off writing the fic at all.

Wow, those readers sound entitled. It's fine to feel frustrated that an awesome fic hasn't updated in a while, but the author in no way owes them a quick update, and you know what? Writing takes a lot of time and effort. Editing afterward to make it a good read does, too. Twitter, on the other hand, does not.

And even if the author was writing another fic instead of the one those readers want updated, that's his/her prerogative. Fanfiction is something done for pleasure, not a project with a deadline and some return - like money or grades.

Late but...Having time to write 140 words =/= having time to work on, or finish a fic. Also, it's possible they're posting from their phone or tablet which, really, is *not* a good place for typing up anything in-depth [and quite possibly not at home/somewhere they can't work on fics.]

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