Poll: Fic posting preference

[silversolitaire]

I'm conducting a little poll to see what people's posting preference is in regards to long fics and WIPs.

[Poll #999406]

Comments

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

This is a really interesting one [hence getting carried away - apologies for the length of this...] I never, ever post WIPs myself, as it doesn't feel fair, and it puts me under lots of pressure to finish them. As a writer, I also fear that people lose interest after a while, and so the comment count goes down as time goes on. As a comment junkie, I find this too terrible to cope with ;)

As a reader, if it's an author I know is going to finish, and in a reasonable amount of time, I might read a WIP, but not otherwise. I also worry about the wanderings and meanderings of plot - unless the author has everything really well planned out, there's a danger that a WIP writes itself into a corner with no way out. Plot is important to me, and I get cross when it gets abused.

This is pure self-interest, but I'm interested in the feelings about 'serials' in TW-fic. By which I mean the kind of thing I write, where each story stands-alone, but they're all part of the same fic-verse that I've created. There's a few of them out there - do they fall into the category of long-fic, or WIP or what? And are they problematic for new readers? Just interested, that's all...

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Hm yes... I kinda used "serialized" here as "long fic in chunks", but I see how I actually missed what you're talking about there... *scratches chin*. Well, TBH if every story you post actually is a stand-alone and they just fit in nicely with the overall plot of your story arc, then I wouldn't really call them long fics or WIPs. More like, uh, short fics that fit into an overall story arc but can stand alone. So that doesn't really apply to either.

As for your other points, I couldn't agree more. I feel exactly the same way, both for writing and reading WIPs.