Beware the WIP...

[kellifer]

I have a quick question.

For the writers - have you ever started posted a story you haven't finished?

For the readers - do you read WIPS?

Reason I'm asking is because I never post WIPS, my longer stories are finished when I start posting, just being beta'd usually. I usually don't read WIPS unless it's an author I know but I started reading one that is four parts in, I'm liking it and the author seems to have dropped off the face of the earth.

Argh!! Don't do that to me!!!

Comments

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

That IS frustrating! I will read WIP's sometimes. I have no set rules for it. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

As a writer, I don't like posting WIP's. I usually just start out with a stand-alone story that I have ideas about for the future, and then maybe I'll write a sequel.

Having said that, I have one major WIP going on right now, and I feel bad that it's taking so long to write it. I don't blame people at all who are refusing to read it until it's done.

I've also left 2 unfinished WIP's in my last fandom. I started them even as I was losing interest in the fandom itself... and then Stargate basically just blew in and completely blind-sided me. Very quickly. Tsunami-like. And I never went back and finished those 2 WIP's. Probably never will. I feel bad about it though. Because of that, I try not to post WIP's anymore.

You know, except the one right now.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

You know, except the one right now.

Hee... you're so cute. :)

Are you talking about the OT3 one? Because I find each piece to be enough of a stand alone that there is no WIP wibbles...

Of course, you may be talking about something else I've completely missed...