Questions for the list

[kellifer]

2 things that I have been wondering about... considering I'm never particularly up with the online etiquette and value opinions...

1. For the writers - do you post stories to multiple communities? I usually pick one and my journal or just my journal and that's it but I'm seriously considering cutting back the number of communities I'm a member of because it seems lately I'm scrolling through five or six entries of the same story over and over again... I have a non-community filter but I *like* finding new authors to read but this is just defeating me...

2. Why do people put for their story summaries like - "I would summarise but it will spoil the story" *or* "I suck at summaries. Just read." I'm paraphrasing... ;) I put an excerpt because that's what I like to see, but sometime it's like, help me out and give me an idea of what your story is. Otherwise, I just skip right over it.

What's people's preferred method?

Comments

[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

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.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

*pats you*

Admittedly, FF.net is a good place to start in fandom... but it's just become too choked... and too buggy. It told me I hadn't accepted the terms and conditions every time I logged in. I gave up.

Plus, I like the way I now have a reading list of pretty much all my favourite authors without having to look around... :)