[ SECRET POST #2379 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2379 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 046 secrets from Secret Submission Post #340.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, 4 months sounds like a really short amount of time, really. Sometimes my stuff gets recommended and sometimes it doesn't. Usually, the things I write that I like more don't really find an audience and things I think are just okay take off for no reason I can discern. I've been in fandom and writing for a very long time, though, and had a decently solid "career", so I guess you can think of it like building a brand. Given enough time, if you put out work that is technically sound and that people enjoy, you'll cultivate an audience and someone will rec your work. Or, maybe they'll never rec it. I've written things that fit perfectly into the "will probably be rec'd" niche and wasn't even really noticed. Why? Maybe I was wrong in my assessment. Maybe fandom had a darling at the moment. Maybe the people who do the recs just didn't read it. Whatever. Some people did and they liked it, which is nice. Am I sometimes baffled by some of the things that get recommended? Are some of them absolutely trainwrecks? Do I then look at my perfectly serviceable story and wonder what happened? Sure, but such is the fickle nature of putting anything in a public sphere.

To sum, I absolutely agree with the get over yourself sentiments.

[elaminator]

Agreed. There's no sure-fire way to tell what is going to be popular and what isn't. Even if a fic seems to hit all the right (or popular) notes that doesn't mean it'll get a rec. (And like you say, sometimes the fic being recced is crap. Of course it feels good for someone to acknowledge your work, but don't take that as a sign of quality. These things don't always make sense. Not everyone gets what they deserve in fandom.)

Plus, OP said nothing about comments or kudos. They might already have readers and still be disappointed by the lack of recs. (Which is silly, imo.)

Again, four months is NOTHING.

And I'm not sure if the OP thinks their beta is lying to them about the quality of their work or what, but either way the whole "I need a new beta" thing sounded pretty accusatory and rude.