I really don't know about #1, since I generally only join up to challenge communities - the fics there have to be tailor-made, and after they're up, I generally just post a link at my livejournal. I admit it's frustrating, seeing the same story, which didn't particularly blow you away the first time, posted over and over and over and over again...
On the other hand, re: #2 - I generally take the attitude that if the author sucks at summaries, the story's probably not all that hot either. Really, an excerpt is a great and simple way to draw someone in, and it's not rocket science either! Furthermore- gah. No. Nonono. If I go down this path it'll all be claws and ranting about FF.net and the apparent impossibility of using a spellchecker, which, no.
Oh dear. I get a bit ranty about these things - you see, I spent years at the Pit of Voles before I discovered Livejournal, and I have vowed that I will never go back there again.
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Date: 2006-05-13 09:28 am (UTC)On the other hand, re: #2 - I generally take the attitude that if the author sucks at summaries, the story's probably not all that hot either. Really, an excerpt is a great and simple way to draw someone in, and it's not rocket science either! Furthermore- gah. No. Nonono. If I go down this path it'll all be claws and ranting about FF.net and the apparent impossibility of using a spellchecker, which, no.
Oh dear. I get a bit ranty about these things - you see, I spent years at the Pit of Voles before I discovered Livejournal, and I have vowed that I will never go back there again.