WIP Challenge check in - day 20 Thursday

[lilly_c]

How's the writing coming along today?

Poll #14990

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 3

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Today I

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wrote
1 (33.3%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

researched/planned
1 (33.3%)

had a cheeky break
1 (33.3%)

dealt with life
3 (100.0%)

My progress is

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Mean: 4.00 Median: 3 Std. Dev 2.94

awful 1		1 (33.3%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		1 (33.3%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		1 (33.3%)
9		0 (0.0%)
amazing 10		0 (0.0%)

Discussion: no review, no new chapters (c/o the flamingo).



When you see demands like that in other people's fic do you stop reading it? Have you ever done it?

The occasional time that I will read fic, usually when I'm travelling, is generally spent avoiding the ones with specific demands placed on the readers because it tells me that the author isn't at all confident about their work and for me fic with reader demands scream insecure author, then again, it does come over as an ff.net thing because I have seen it on there a fair in the past but not so much in other places. I can't remember ever doing it but if I did, it will have been when I first started posting my fic online and not before.

Comments

[krait]

I believe people when they say they've seen this, because I have, too... but it was years and years ago, maybe one or two times, and on a site I don't frequent often, so it's not something I really have a lot of experience with. (Though that site had a reputation for this sort of thing, so presumably it was fairly common; maybe in other fandoms than the ones I was reading in?)

It's super annoying, but I honestly can't say if I'd stop reading or not. It depends on lots of things - primarily the quality of the fic (RL works the same way - if you're a good enough writer/moviemaker/whatever, you can get away with a lot!) but also plenty of other factors. (How big is the fandom? How popular is the character or pairing? How emotionally invested am I in that story before the demands came out?)

I dunno! I guess I'm just lucky when it comes to picking fandoms, because to me this is a much- discussed but very seldom seen behaviour.

[merryghoul]

Usually I do.

Unless I'm secretly enjoying the fic, and usually because I find it awful.

[juliet316]

Holding chapters hostage for reviews drives me up a tree and is guaranteed to turn me off a fic (in some cases before I even read it). I may have done the 'please read and review' deal, but I've never said "I won't post if I don't get x amounts of reviews." Bottom line: Hostage taking is a pet peeve of mine and I won't read any fic that does that.

[lovecrafty]

I do, if only because in my personal experience anyone fishing like that tends to write more to get a response or praise instead of to tell a good story. Then again, I'm finding more and more that it's just part of the short hand of people in a certain phase of writing on the internet, a natural stage of progression as it were.