[ SECRET POST #2309 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2309 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 068 secrets from Secret Submission Post #330.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 = - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[illiadandoddity]

...Okay.

FUCK THAT FUCKING BULLSHIT "WRITE FOR YOURSELF" LINE. There is NOTHING WRONG with wanting, or even needing some feedback for something you put time and effort into. Do you know what "writing for yourself and nobody else" is? Masturbation. It can be fun, it can be enjoyable, and for some people it's all they need, but some of us are content with diddling our own brains. I've written "for myself and nobody else." It was all either crap or something I totally lost interest in. I cannot write a complete story from beginning to end without getting some kind of feedback.

Every single time a writer (and it's only writers who get this, no one scolds artists for wanting feedback) wishes that they could get more reviews/kudos/hits/any other kind of feedback, someone always gives that patronizing, obnoxious "you should write for yourself and nobody else!" line. You know what? I don't write for myself, and I don't want to write for myself. I write for other people, and to do that I need to know that other people are paying attention.

I don't need everyone to review. I certainly don't need everyone to like it, but I need to know that someone at least read it.

[(Anonymous)]

Well you're a competitive needy little bebop, aren't you?

[illiadandoddity]

If your definition of "competitive needy little bebop*" is "someone who does things for other people and would like other people to notice that I did them" then, yes. Yes I am.



*WTF does "bebop" even mean in this random word salad of an insult, anyways? Are you calling me a composition of early modern jazz music? Or maybe you think I'm that henchman from the '80s Ninja Turtles cartoon?

[elephantinegrace]

I actually read that as bishop at first and wondered how the computer knew I was playing chess with...somebody from Brazil, apparently.

-shifty eyes- They're spying on me!

[(Anonymous)]

someone always gives that patronizing, obnoxious "you should write for yourself and nobody else!" line

This.

In my experience (and of course YMMV), the people who most often say "Write for yourself" are writers who regularly receive abundant and enthusiastic feedback themselves.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm with you. I'm an artist not a writer but the few times I mention I'd like a bit more exposure everyone always jumps down on me saying "Draw for yourself!" I draw for myself, but art is the only way I'm able to participate in fandom nowadays and when people don't even comment on it (yet I have a hundred of favs) it's just discouraging. I want to be a part of fandom!

[making_excuses]

I'm not a writer, never have been never will.

I am a blogger though, and I wouldn't post my blog entries so everyone (or my friends list at times) can read them, if I didn't want them read, then I would write privately.

I don't get the write for yourself line, I assume when someone posts something on the internet where everyone can read it, they aren't just doing it for themselves. They are writing their story to give other people a story, if they wrote for themselves then they wouldn't post it.