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

[elleth]

Finished two stocking fills, 1400 words. :D

Discussion: Bad spelling or grammar are an instant turn-off. I usually don't suppose the story will look much better, and find immersion hard with mistakes jumping me in the face. Misspellings of character names are even worse, because if someone has Sauromon in their summary, rather than Sauron or Saruman, then they either didn't understand the plot of the source texts, or they couldn't be bothered to have the story beta'd and fact-checked - neither is very appealing. (Plus, that particular name is making me think of Digimon, which is not a crossover that needs to happen.)
People pleading for reviews in the summary (let me read the fic and then decide!) or denigrating their story from the get-go aren't that hot on my to-read list either. They may just be insecure (goodness knows I am) but the summary essentially being the blurb to sell your fic... not something you want to do.