Why your story isn't recced...
Mar. 8th, 2007 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amalthiaOkay 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.
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.
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Date: 2007-03-09 04:05 pm (UTC)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?
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Date: 2007-03-09 05:07 pm (UTC)I really started to notice this when fanfiction.net came out...maybe it has had an influence. But apparently there are multiple reasons for authors not posting their fics all at once.
Organization is a key item and it looks like some LJ users have no clue how to organize their multi-part stories and it makes it very difficult for readers to find part 1 or get to part 2...I just think it's either ignorance or laziness. And there are stories getting posted that do use links that I see no reason to waste reading time trying to navigate a badly organized LJ. It sucks though.