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

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

1) I always post things to my own lj, lostcityfound because I run it (unless the story is slash, but I haven't written slash in a while), and if I remember to pairing or character specific communities if they are relevant. But I frequently don't remember to do that last one. But then, I have filters on my lj so that I only see communities when I want to, rather than my whole flist being inundated by comm posts.

2) The worst is "I suck at summeries." *headdesk* I'm a bit picky and I like as much meta info as possible, including a summary of the story, before I decide to read. Writing them can be a pain, I'll admit, but when in doubt, lift a sentence out of the story and use that for crying out loud!

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

But then, I have filters on my lj

I do have this aswell... I have a non-comm filter but I do like reading new writers so it's a little annoying to have to do this if I miss reading ellejay for a day or so...