[ SECRET POST #2452 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2452 ⌋

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

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02.
[Giles Coren and Sue Perkins, The Supersizers Eat… The Eighties]


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03.
[Jeff Davis/Teen Wolf]


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04.
[Django Unchained]


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05.
[Valiant Hearts: The Great War]


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06.
[Child of Light]

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07.
[Jurassic Park]


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08.
[Hate Plus]


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09.
[The Three Investigators]


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10.
[Charlie Hunnam]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 011 secrets from Secret Submission Post #350.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Then fucking have your story written before you release it. Chapter it to make cliffhangers people will like instead of chaptering it because you don't know what the hell you are doing with the story.


Release it in chapters on a set schedule. Like TV. Like the TV show you are writing about. It's just fucking rude to update once a year or whatever because you just HAD to release a chapter before you knew where the story was going.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's pretty fucking rude to expect people who are entertaining you for free to do dick all.

[(Anonymous)]

No.

Please enjoy the abandoned BNfanfics.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you realistically expect anyone to do fandom like that? I mean seriously, waiting on updates can suck hard but that's just dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT Well, speaking personally, I do fandom like that. I'd never post a WIP, I want to finish it first. And I know several people who do likewise, so yes, we can realistically expect *someone* to do fandom like that.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

But not everybody.

[(Anonymous)]

Thread-OP said anybody, not everybody.

[(Anonymous)]

(New anon) I feel shame, but yeah, I always post WIPs. But knowing that somewhere out there six people really want my fic to continue keeps me writing quite effectively. Catholic guilt! (I actually got an "update, please!" message today and I felt both guilty and flattered. And will update soon.)

[(Anonymous)]

WTF? I've been in fandom for 15 years and only once have I ever posted a WIP that I couldn't finish. From then on I vowed to just finish the story before posting it at all, exactly as person above you said. I have totally finished stories and I say so - people never ever have to worry that they're going to start reading my fic and then not get an ending. YAY!

So it's not impossible. Just because other people suck at it doesn't mean it's not possible to not suck at it.

[(Anonymous)]

In my experience, it used to be that most people did fandom like that, and in some parts of fandom it's still very common.

It certainly has some advantages: not only does it ensure that you don't leave your readers hanging with stories that end up going nowhere, it means you can edit the finished product as a whole before posting. You're not restricted by what you've already written -- you can toss the beginning if it's preventing the end from working, change things large and small, and you can lift passages from unfinished stuff for use in stories that are actually working because the unfinished stuff is not already public.

You also avoid almost all comments about when you're going to update next. (On the rare occasions that I get requests for "updates", they're requests for sequels to finished stories, and my sense is that the exchange generally has a much happier tone on both sides even though I say no to the requests.)

[(Anonymous)]

If you'd said "everyone" I'd have agreed with you. But "anyone?" Yes. I do fandom like this. I have 27 fics posted, over 600,000 words, and every single one of them is finished. Some of us don't enjoy the pressure of knowing people have been waiting for two/three/six months since our last update and we're stuck with massive writer's block with no end in sight.

[(Anonymous)]

In most cases I think it writing a story as a WIP makes the story worse and looks like a ploy to get more attention/comments. So uh, it's not an expectation but I ignore people who write like that unless each update works as a stand alone story or I am very very confident that the writer doesn't suck.

What about the one-shotters?

[melissatreglia]

I generally write one-shots, not multi-chap fic, so my experience is a trifle different-but-somehow-samey as multi-chap fic writers.

I've gotten "update plz!" on my one-shots which were CLEARLY labelled as "complete within themselves and there is no more, ok?" or "this is just a scene that popped into my head randomly and it's plotless fluff so enjoy the warm fuzzies."

Some people just suck at reading comprehension. Alternatively, they like the story so much, they want more. But, either way, you can't update a story that's already done. It's weirdly sweet to get the "update plz," but also annoying.