What irks me more than a completed story being doled out over the course of a week is an endless WIP that even the author seems to have no clue what to do with and they don't even provide links to the other pieces of the story. Or the unlabed WIP. Those are the worst.

I've made exceptions for good stuff before, but nowadays as soon as I see "part x of ?", I usually don't even bother. I'm old and I can't hold story details together that long. Expecting me to re-read the whole thing every time an update is posted ain't happening. Once it's finished, yeah, I might go back and read the whole thing.

It does seem to be a growing trend, doesn't it? Wonder what's up with that? FanFiction.net influence?