Why your story isn't recced...

[amalthia]

Okay so your story is beta read, you're getting a ton of feedback, chances are I may have left feedback but I'm not reccing it, so what's going on?

There is a good chance you're hitting one of my biggest pet peeves. Posting a completed story over a period of days instead of all at once. If I find the story after it's all parts are posted there is a good chance I'll rec and feedback the fic...but lately because I am actively reading and looking for fics I'm running into this more often.

I rarely leave feedback for these stories and I'll probably never recommend the story unless enough years go by and I completely forget the author did that to the story. (but honestly, I'm not likely to forget because it gets to me on so many levels anytime I see the story I get upset all over again)

Now some people may be wondering..."but you recommend WIP..." yeah well I never said I was rational. For some reason WIP don't make me upset the same way. I wrote about this once trying to figure out why WIP work better than completed stories that are chopped into pieces...I think WIP have better story flow than completed stories that break off at an arbitrary word count number.

I guess for me I feel like the author is jerking my chain by not posting the entire story at once. It feels like a cheap ploy to gain more feedback and well this whole deal pisses me off. (I know this probably isn't the reason why some authors decide to post their completed fic over a period of days but I don't understand if the story is complete why not post it all at once and if it's not finished then why is the author saying it's complete?)

Anyway, I've been seeing this around a bit more lately and I'm baffled.

Comments

[zaganthi.livejournal.com]

Does it really piss people off *that* much?

I have to break stories into chunks or else they crash the version of eFiction I'm running. If I hit over 40,000 a chapter, it goes boom. So, yeah, I cut stories into semi logical chunks, and give each chunk one last proof before I post the part. Otherwise I'd never post anything because the larger story fiddled with all at once is pretty daunting. It's not a cheap ploy for feedback for me. I'd just never move shit off my hard drive if I didn't do that.

So uh. I'll be over in the corner sort of staring and wondering who else I've pissed off.

[amalthia]

imagine red steam coming out of my ears...that's how I feel when I see that line of text in the author notes.

what version of efiction are you running? because I've posted some rather hefty chunks of fiction in the efiction database for the Angst Archive.

I also don't recall you saying your story is complete until it's completely posted.

[zaganthi.livejournal.com]

No, this is true -- I proof and fix things until I post a piece, which means all the other chunks that follow get the same treatment.

All That I Am, an older CSI fic, is 40,000+ and it keeps *falling* off the face of my archive, and I have no idea why it keeps doing that. I'm reluctant to cut it into chapters because it feels short to me if I do that, so I just re-upload it every time Vicky points out to me that it's gone again. It's just bizarre. #^^# I'm running 2.x. What's the Angst Archive on?

[amalthia]

the angst archive is efiction 2.5 that's just weird. But you know what I don't get emails when I get reviews even though it's enabled and there are other bugs I just never have figured out.

So right now, I'm upgrading my personal fiction site with efiction 3.2 seeing how that goes.