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summergoodwife · 26 days ago

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Right so, putting it bluntly, you don't get to decide that.

I get that this is supposed to be a positive and helpful post, or at worst a tough love sort of thing to support other fic writers, but it's ultimately also a post that imposes the OP's view of a fic's worth on other creators. Why do you get to say what makes other people's fic worth writing? That judgment should be made by the person who actually spent time and effort on it, and who knows for a fact what motivated them to do that.

Support like this can very quickly stop being supportive when it's presented like this; not an alternate way of looking at a complex subject, but an attempted debunking of why someone is upset.

#sorry this came off so argumentative i don't mean to be a prick #I just think “write for yourself” has become a thought-terminating cliché in a lot of writing circles and i want it to be toned down #of course I write for myself #a certain chunk of my satisfaction is just from the process of writing whether or not anyone sees it #but I also want people to see it and be made to think by it and respond to it #literally the point of publishing something on ao3 is to let other people see it #I hate how “clicks/kudos aren't absolute deciders of quality or value” has been flattened into #“you're wrong for being disappointed about getting very few clicks/kudos”#it's similar to “show don't tell” in how it got the nuance squeezed out of it for the sake of making snappy writing advice one-liners #fanfic #also wdym “it made you happy”#if someone said “I am disappointed it didn't get more attention and this makes me unhappy” then it did not make them happy??#fic writing

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