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

[ldyanne.livejournal.com]

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 ;-)