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. I post WIPs and do this with all my fics. Sometimes I go overboard. My extreme AU fic has over a 150 pages of notes and outlines devoted to it. Mostly because its the connector fic for a very complicated trilogy and I felt compelled to write detailed personal histories for every single character. I seriously doubt that the fic will be 150 pages.
2) decline to read those stories until they are done (why get emotionally involved in something the author may one day abandon?)
That is so freaking true. I still cry over Dreams of Enchantment, a fic that hasn't been updated in years. *damns the writers to Hades*
Other then that qualm I prefer to read WIPs over completed fics. I know that seems strange but I actually remeber them better. I read LUW in one sitting and though I recall enjoying it a great deal I can't remeber a single thing that happens in that fic.
For my particular reading style I would prefer that the writer have everything written then post it in weekly installments. It adds a bit of light and joy in my life to ee my fave fics updated.
But I can see why writers can't or don't complete thier fics before posting them. I know that I myself couldn't be arsed to write anything were it not for the encouragement of the people who give me feedback. I'm a self admited feedback whore. Sometimes I feel like I am doing the people who read my fics a great disservice because I put alot of foreshadowing and hinting in my fics that will be totally lost on them because they are not reading it one go.
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Date: 2003-08-17 10:55 am (UTC)2) decline to read those stories until they are done (why get emotionally involved in something the author may one day abandon?)
That is so freaking true. I still cry over Dreams of Enchantment, a fic that hasn't been updated in years. *damns the writers to Hades*
Other then that qualm I prefer to read WIPs over completed fics. I know that seems strange but I actually remeber them better. I read LUW in one sitting and though I recall enjoying it a great deal I can't remeber a single thing that happens in that fic.
For my particular reading style I would prefer that the writer have everything written then post it in weekly installments. It adds a bit of light and joy in my life to ee my fave fics updated.
But I can see why writers can't or don't complete thier fics before posting them. I know that I myself couldn't be arsed to write anything were it not for the encouragement of the people who give me feedback. I'm a self admited feedback whore. Sometimes I feel like I am doing the people who read my fics a great disservice because I put alot of foreshadowing and hinting in my fics that will be totally lost on them because they are not reading it one go.
Enough rambling from me.
Malicia