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

[workerb.livejournal.com]

1. I haven't written a story in ages but when I write one, I post it on my LJ only. I rarely post it to a comm unless it's for a ficathon or challenge-related fic. I'm not that comfortable posting it in all sorts of places as I prefer a smaller audience for my fics.

I know some authors like pimping their fics in multiple places so more people can see it but I'll scroll past it if it's 'overexposed' (for lack of a better word).

2. I'm not sure why some authors do that either. Most of the time, it's the summary that makes me click on a fic link. Maybe the story is too complicated to boil down to a few sentences. However, I think the authors should make an attempt to do so.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

'overexposed' (for lack of a better word

That's a perfect word!