1) I don't belong to many LJ communities, just the ones with the fic I want to read, but I don't post my stories there for the most part because the LJ writers are so good they scare me. I stick with Wraithbait and FF.net to post my fic.
2) I won't read a story unless there's something to grab my interest, and "I suck at summaries," isn't going to grab my interest. Sometimes I get a little cutsie in my summaries, but I think it's very important to give the reader some indication of what they're getting into. There's too many stories out there to waste my time with one that won't even take the time and make the effort to write a summary. And yeah, I could rant about ff.net, too, but I won't ;-)
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Date: 2006-05-13 02:21 pm (UTC)2) I won't read a story unless there's something to grab my interest, and "I suck at summaries," isn't going to grab my interest. Sometimes I get a little cutsie in my summaries, but I think it's very important to give the reader some indication of what they're getting into. There's too many stories out there to waste my time with one that won't even take the time and make the effort to write a summary. And yeah, I could rant about ff.net, too, but I won't ;-)