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

[trill100.livejournal.com]

#1- I never post to more than one com at a time (when I even post to a com, it's usually just in my journal)

#2- That drives me batty. At the very least, give a first line, people! Something to bait a reader is always helpful. An if a writer says they suck in the summary, I can't see it hooking much of anyone.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

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