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

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

1- Personally, I don't post much to my communities, although I suppose people join them because they *want* everyone to post fic there. So by me not doing it, I'm sort of defeating the purpose. On the other hand, most of people in a community for one specific pairing are probably in all of those comms, or most of them, so posting to every single comm seems a bit redundant. I've become incredibly protective of my fic these days. I'm not sure why.

2- Because they not only suck at summaries, they suck at writing. Usually. Not always, but in that case I feel they're not putting in enough effort if they can write an entire story but not a summary. Hell, just pick a good line from your story and put THAT as the summary. Eesh. I'm with you, I don't bother reading when I see that.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

so posting to every single comm seems a bit redundant.

That's my feeling. On most of these comms you're going to get a lot of the same readers...