amalthia | (Reply)

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I think it really depends on if you're posting to your own LJ or a community. Basically yes follow the community rules. But I'm mostly referring to the people who are just posting to their LJs.

I don't think it should take 5 days to share a 30k story. 10k words a day would have it taken care of in three. Or you could backdate the story and have 1 post with the links to all the backdated entries.

I just know there are alternate ways to share larger story files and I rarely read a story or get back to it when I see that it's finished but the author didn't post it all so I can read it in one go. I know some people have less time but what I do is I save the story move it to my sony e-reader and read it during lunch and when I get home and I don't have time to convert each new part into an rtf to move it to my reader. I'd rather grab the stories that are completely posted and get it taken care of in one go.

I read fast, not joking about that I can finish a 1000 page novel in 4 days. I like reading longer stories in one sitting if possible. And by breaking it up makes it so I can't do that. So either I wait (in which case I completely forget about the story, which has happened if I don't know the author already) or I try reading it a bit at the time and just feel more and more upset as I reach the end of the chapter in 30 minutes and wonder why the hell the rest of the story isn't posted already. (I avoid option two because I know it'll piss me off and generally I like reading to be my happy place)

However, ultimately I realize it's the author's choice on how to present their story. However as a reader I gotta say it doesn't make me happy. I write stories and I like to post my completed story at once. I may break it up for easier reading but I make sure all the parts are avaiable at the same time. (I know people who like to read the last paragraph first before they'll commit to reading the rest of the story just as an example of the weird people I know) but I feel like it's a disservice to readers to not give them options or have the whole story avaible if it's finished.