[ SECRET POST #2655 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2655 ⌋

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

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[Divergent]


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04. [WARNING for underage character+sex?]



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[Archer]


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[Hannibal]


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[Wolverine and the X-Men]










Notes:

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

[(Anonymous)]

I worked it out as at least over 2,100 words a day. If they wrote 7 days a week, no breaks ever.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that fic was betaed, or even edited very much.

If a fic-rip happened to me, on some unedited, unbetaed fanfic I did (ie the fic rip might well have been justified) and I suddenly flipped my shit and deleted everything when previously I'd been writing thousands of happy fanfic words every day, I'd get off the internet and re-examine my life. For several months at the minimum.

I'm not being nasty, I'm trying to be helpful. To put so much into writing so many words of fanfic is almost obsessional behaviour to start with. To achieve that kind of focus means there's some kind of disconnect with the rest of reality going on, no matter if it's admirable or not.

A step back from fanfic and the internet might just be what the doctor ordered for the OP.

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree with you, primarily because I've been in OP's shoes. The long fics that I wrote back before I got a beta and slowed myself down were praised a lot, and were also shit. Taking more time and getting a second look helps a lot, even if hearing that stings at first.

[sarillia]

It's always really interesting to me to find out how much writing is considered somehow absurd to other people. You write that first line and I feel like it comes with a silent "and that's a lot" but it doesn't sound like that much to me.

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AYRT

I'm a slow writer, but I can also write a couple of thousand words in an hour. That's easy enough. 3000 words in one day? I agree, not a staggering amount.

Doing it every single day for months, to a decent quality? That's something else entirely.

[(Anonymous)]

It's good to know that, because you personally have trouble writing that much, that anyone who is able to is a) obsessed and b) doesn't edit their work.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I'd argue anyone who writes fanfic at all, any amount of it at all, is obsessed to some degree. Fanfic writers don't get paid.

If you're so upset with this suggestion you might want to examine your own attitudes to fanfic and why you're doing it.

I didn't say being obsessed was necessarily bad. In fact, I implied otherwise.

[(Anonymous)]

Saying that a certain behavior suggests a disconnect with reality isn't...exactly good, no matter how you try to spin it.

Now I'm actually concerned for you, since you apparently don't think that disconnecting from reality is bad.

[(Anonymous)]

2100 is peanuts if you're inspired and in your groove. If I know where my fic is going and I have the inspiration, I could do that in an hour, maybe 2; I could go back and edit later in probably 15 minutes. It's fic, it's not a fucking dissertation. Having said that, even if I didn't spend hours and hours on it, it would still hurt to have it trashed. I made hamburgers for dinner tonight; it's probably the easiest thing I ever make for dinner and it takes the least amount of time, but if someone had spit it out and said it was the worst thing they'd ever eaten I would have been upset, even if they didn't say it to my face.

[inkdust]

It may be peanuts to you, but don't generalize the same way anon did. No matter how inspired and in the groove I've ever been, and I've been writing for a long time, I've never written at that speed. People are different, period.

[(Anonymous)]

So much agreement right here.