[ SECRET POST #2769 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2769 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. That seems really weird -- I'm like the exact opposite.

Do you have any idea why? Is the effect still there if you don't read the comments? Do kudos have the same effect? (Sorry, I just like trying to pin down explanations for quirks.)

[sarillia]

I can imagine myself doing this. I don't work well under outside pressure. The idea of people waiting to see the next part of the story and getting impatient would make me anxious and procrastinate. That's why I haven't posted a WIP since I was 12.

[(Anonymous)]

Heh. I'm just the opposite. No outside pressure, no completion. EVER. My WIPs get posted or they don't get done.

[(Anonymous)]

I post WIPs and am very good about finishing them, but I do think comments and conversations encourage and energize me. I don't know if I'd finish as many stories if I didn't post WIPs.

op

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure as to why.
I always read comments, because I don't write that many fics that I lose track of the feedback. Kudos or short positive comments have the same effect.
Maybe I feel that there are too many comments for a mediocre fic... I'd include the reason in the secret if I knew.

Re: op

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with the first response: only post your fics once they are completed, problem solved!

Plus I should mention that some readers (me for instance) have been burned so often they simply skip every WIP and by extension also tend to skip every writer who post their stories as WIPs.

It only takes one unfinished WIP to really burn you and I tend to distrust the WIP concept in general as my first fandom was one which was full of incomplete stories: I don't blame the authors, but I just don't even give them a chance by not starting any incomplete story... :(