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

[sp23.livejournal.com]

I only belong to a few sga communities for that reason. If the same stuff is going to show up in all the communities, there's no need to belong to so many. Plus the newsletter does a great job of gathering the new fic. I usually post to the appropriate community (sga_flashfic or mckay_sheppard) or just my lj and put a notice in the sga_noticeboard.

As for summaries, I think they're very important to help me determine whether or not I want to read a fic. The same with Ratings. If I'm in the mood for porn, I don't want to bother reading something 'G". I usually put in a small summary or pick an appropriate except, depending on the story.