WIP Challenge Day 6, Friday

[jagnikjen]

Bienvenidos, Aloha, Nǐ Hǎo, Zdravstvuj, Hello!

I hope you were able to do something fic related since yesterday's post.

What did you do, anyway?

~ I wrote
~ I edited
~ I posted
~ I beta read
~ I read fic for enjoyment
~ I did nothing...

Please share your accomplishments or your disappointments.

Discussion topic . . . So. When perusing archives or comms or whatever for a fic to read, what types of things in the fic headers or descriptions or author's notes will keep you from reading that fic?

Comments

[sqweakie]

Had a breakthrough in my writing. I was able to link together some random ideas and I think I know where my story is heading next. Feel accomplished making progress over that stumbling block.

Turn offs in reading...

The whole 'I suck at summaries just please read' drives me nuts. I am not very good at creating summaries either, but instead of whining one I use a quote from the first or second chapter. Maybe the author should try to see if a friend will summarize it for you. There are other alternatives out there. It's not that hard, people!

One other issue huge typos and grammar missteps. It makes me very leery when the first thing in the summary/author's note, before even the first paragraph of the story, is filled more mistakes than a text sent while drunk. Doesn't really inspire confidence in what is written after.