[ SECRET POST #2631 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2631 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 048 secrets from Secret Submission Post #376.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If your priority is to be popular with the masses, write for the audience.

If you do not write for the audience, do not be surprised when you are not popular with the masses.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

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sound advice

[(Anonymous)]

This. This is NOT a problem with fanfic. It's a problem with all creative endeavor. Yes, vapid, unchallenging crap will always be more popular than engaging and complex material. If you think that getting out of fandom will change that, I have some bad fucking news.

Here's a fun thing to do: write a brilliantly insightful piece on, say, the evolution of political engagement in the internet age. Publish it on a really good platform, say Huffington Post or Feministe or something.

Then, 24 hours later, compare the number of hits on your article, and on Buzzfeed's "35 Cats Who Cannot Even Deal With The Oscars". Seriously, sit down and compare them.

If you don't like that example, then write a warm, witty, sexy urban fantasy novel and compare its sales to Twilight. Study comic book art for 20 years and see whether you get paid more than Greg Land. Make a thrilling, original movie and watch it lose at the box office to another Hangover sequel.

Signed, someone who has been playing this game at the pro level for rather too long.