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 04:42 pm (UTC)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.