You are not alone in cranky land. I suck at writing summaries too, but I still give enough of a damn to give it a try!
I might have to be quiet about the first though...I find ship/pre-ship/gen to be annoying things. I understand why that person wrote that...scared to loose either side, because gen'ers often won't read anything with even the teensiest hint of ship (and feel ambushed when they aren't warned) and because shippers can be snippy bitches if there isn't anything overt enough to be called out and out ship. I feel stupid every time I have to label a fic team *and* ship, just to advertise the fact that there are more than two characters involved in the story and that yes, there is also a thread of ship. Sigh. I think this is why I don't even bother to label anything on my website. Read at your own risk. (Though I imagine most people know me as a SJer anyway so no big surprise. I won't get into the 'MG she had the gall to write another pairing' BS) But this probably just makes me sound like an uptight, egocentric writer. Oh well. :) All that said, I do see your point. Saying 'ship if you squint' is probably, just like the rest, a sign of a youngun quite concerned with getting as many hits on that story as possible. Hopefully they will grow out of it. :P
But now you have made me self-conscious about my own summaries. Lol.
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Date: 2006-11-14 12:25 am (UTC)I might have to be quiet about the first though...I find ship/pre-ship/gen to be annoying things. I understand why that person wrote that...scared to loose either side, because gen'ers often won't read anything with even the teensiest hint of ship (and feel ambushed when they aren't warned) and because shippers can be snippy bitches if there isn't anything overt enough to be called out and out ship. I feel stupid every time I have to label a fic team *and* ship, just to advertise the fact that there are more than two characters involved in the story and that yes, there is also a thread of ship. Sigh. I think this is why I don't even bother to label anything on my website. Read at your own risk. (Though I imagine most people know me as a SJer anyway so no big surprise. I won't get into the 'MG she had the gall to write another pairing' BS) But this probably just makes me sound like an uptight, egocentric writer. Oh well. :) All that said, I do see your point. Saying 'ship if you squint' is probably, just like the rest, a sign of a youngun quite concerned with getting as many hits on that story as possible. Hopefully they will grow out of it. :P
But now you have made me self-conscious about my own summaries. Lol.