Even some of the classics are still WIPs till this day.
Yes, and they ought to be ashamed of themselves. ^_^
Seriously, it's fine if that's the way authors choose to post their fanfiction-- if they want to make epics, and are comfortable enough with their outlines to know exactly the way their stories are going, that is fine. No one's under deadline to make money off this, obviously.
But it's also my privilege to
1) reserve judgment on their stories until they are done (therefore no awards votes from me)
2) decline to read those stories until they are done (why get emotionally involved in something the author may one day abandon?)
3) find that I like stories more when I can read them in one go, rather than waiting a few weeks between each portion. More emotional punch that way.
I've read stories that were lovely but had crap endings, and found that other stories that would have bored me had I read them in pieces over a year were, in fact, really good if you got 'em all at once.
And yes, I have made exceptions. Cassandra Claire's Draco Sinister and Lamardeuse's A Taste of Liberty are a couple. And I seriously wouldn't be reading DS right now if it weren't that I was afraid of having things spoiled for me-- I want to hang about with the Cassie fans and enjoy myself, I admit it! And occasionally I'll get sucked into a WIP unwittingly (not realizing it is one) or despite myself (seeing something so interesting I just can't help it, like Scribe's Paternity).
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Date: 2003-08-17 10:02 am (UTC)Yes, and they ought to be ashamed of themselves. ^_^
Seriously, it's fine if that's the way authors choose to post their fanfiction-- if they want to make epics, and are comfortable enough with their outlines to know exactly the way their stories are going, that is fine. No one's under deadline to make money off this, obviously.
But it's also my privilege to
1) reserve judgment on their stories until they are done (therefore no awards votes from me)
2) decline to read those stories until they are done (why get emotionally involved in something the author may one day abandon?)
3) find that I like stories more when I can read them in one go, rather than waiting a few weeks between each portion. More emotional punch that way.
I've read stories that were lovely but had crap endings, and found that other stories that would have bored me had I read them in pieces over a year were, in fact, really good if you got 'em all at once.
And yes, I have made exceptions. Cassandra Claire's Draco Sinister and Lamardeuse's A Taste of Liberty are a couple. And I seriously wouldn't be reading DS right now if it weren't that I was afraid of having things spoiled for me-- I want to hang about with the Cassie fans and enjoy myself, I admit it! And occasionally I'll get sucked into a WIP unwittingly (not realizing it is one) or despite myself (seeing something so interesting I just can't help it, like Scribe's Paternity).