[ SECRET POST #2651 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2651 ⌋

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

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeat ].
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Comments

[badass_tiger]

How is it immediate if you're commissioning it? You're still going to have to wait until after it's finished to receive it. You can tell if somebody's art is good by looking at their past works, same with fanfiction, and when you commission, you're not going to know if it's good until after you've paid for and received it, either. Your second point just dismisses people who would commission for fanfiction. If I commissioned art, I don't expect to do much other than look at it and save it to my computer (prints aren't my thing), and if I commissioned fanfiction, I wouldn't expect different.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know from online, but at a con, you can generally tell if you'll like an artists' work enough to commission them within a minute or two at the most. That's really not so much the case with fanfic.

[(Anonymous)]

Just because it's not immediate, doesn't mean fanfiction can't be commissioned. Fanart gets the advantage because it is a visual medium, but I can say without a doubt that I find more enjoyment in re-reading fanfiction than I do looking at the same piece of fanart hanging on my wall.

If I could, I would be much more willing to commission writers on a base $10/1k work basis very similar to how artists would charge per hour. The only trouble is that it'll feel wrong to commission a writer that isn't actually part of the fandom/fan of the pairing. Unlike art which is just a matter of giving them a snap shot description, writing goes into the history and interaction of the characters. And imho, investigating and researching for a story is different from knowing it and loving the characters/series enough to write with passion.