[ SECRET POST #2884 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2884 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

06. http://i.imgur.com/EoYRSq5.jpg

[othellia]

Honestly, if it's only been a year, I'd say still have hope, OP. I've come back to stories after year long hiatuses and so have other authors I've read.

As for responding to reviews and then not responding to messages, some fic writers use fandom/fic-specific email accounts for their stuff, so it's not that they're seeing your messages and ignoring them, it's that - for the time being - they're out of that part of fandom entirely.

On the flip side, dead WIPs are a lot more common than authors coming back, so have hope... but at the same I'd say don't have too much hope.

[kallanda_lee]

Yeah, pretty much seconding this - but I can see OP's worry, too. Sometimes authors of WIPs won't reply though, because they feel guilty about not updating.

[othellia]

Sometimes authors of WIPs won't reply though, because they feel guilty about not updating.

That's sort of related to the creating and then not checking fandom/fic specific emails thing I mentioned. As someone who's done the year hiatus, I do end up feeling guilty... and that guilt only leads to further procrastination.

So, it's quite possible that the author hasn't even gotten OP's message asking if they're okay, because they're just avoiding that entire account vs "oh I feel so guilty over not writing this fic and/or never going to write again that I'm not even going to respond that i'm okay."

[(Anonymous)]

Have posted any messages saying they are totally working on it, and still going to post a new chapter? Once they do that you can call it a deadfic.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't worry OP, I follow this one fic that updates once a year tops (short chapters at that) - been going on since 2006 and has 20 chapters (80k words). Not even in this fandom any more (left when the fic started xD, checked it at random).

I know a book that doesn't have a last chapter (yep, an online thingy) - the one before the last has been published 2005ish. It was a teen flick, BUT DAMN FRUSTRATION. People still check it. Worse thing is not the lack of the ending (life, muses, so on ... understandable, hell, writers get sick of their stories), but the fact that the author disappeared. Literally. Probably dead (cancer), but where and when he died no one knows (not a case of online disappearance - he's gone in RL).

Anyone remembers Zebbie (she had a fandom name as well, but no idea what) - she has been a slow updater to the point of death suspicions as well.

I think that people get attached to WIPs and authors, so on...

[queerwolf]

My roommate wrote a WIP that has sat unfinished for over 2 years and people ask her about it all the time. She feels guilty and says she'll probably finish it but she "lost her mojo" for the fandom.

All this to say that whatever the reason, you shouldn't necessarily give up hope that it'll one day be finished.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm just finishing a WIP that I've been working on for almost 7 years. The wonder is anyone has stuck with it, given how long it's taken me. But I have always tried to respond to questions about what's happening with it, feeling I owe it to the handful of faithful readers who have kept reading despite the huge gaps between chapters.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel the exact same way about a fic OP. It's amazing, and some of the best characterization of the characters I have read, and the last chapter hasn't been posted in over a year. I'm really worried it's never going to update, especially as the updates for it used to be pretty regular. I'd try contacting the author, but I don't want to bother her or make her feel pressured.

[(Anonymous)]

I think my worst has been 7 months... but I feel you. I feel you.

(I have another fic that hasn't been updated in a couple of months and I really get hassled over it. the thing is, it makes me want to update it even less :-/)

[(Anonymous)]

What's the fic? Share the amazing-ness!

Also, as a hiatus maker myself, I haven't updated a story a lot of people liked in over 3 or 4 years...I do feel kind of guilty, but at this point I feel
a)no inspiration--I don't want to write something crappy
b) who ever read it has already forgotten it

[(Anonymous)]

damn anon, you gave me motivation to post a chapter of my fic. i've been absent for a year due to various things, but i always felt guilty that i hadn't updated. i still get messages to update too lol.

[(Anonymous)]

And now the OP can see miracles can happen and fics can be updated after a long time on hiatus!

[(Anonymous)]

late to the party but, as a one-time WIP abandoner? pressure only accelerates the abandonment.

it's hard for an author to admit that they've fallen out of love with the fandom, or with the story itself. when they know they have people who really enjoy the story and wish there was more, it makes them feel worse, but sometimes you just can't come back from that. you tell yourself you'll finish it someday, or put up the notes you had for how it'll end, just so the fans get closure, but you can't get that love back and it feels bad to let people down. but what can you do?

leave comments and kudos about how much you enjoy the story but try to hold back from asking when the next update will be. if the author has any juice left for the story, that'll go a long way toward getting restarted.

[(Anonymous)]

This is so true. The stories I am most likely to update after a break of a year or more are those that nobody wants anyway (my multi-chaptered genfics especially).

The lack of pressure is what makes it fun for the writer.

[(Anonymous)]

I know what you mean, OP. I've had authors I loved just drop off the face of the earth, and I still wonder to this day if they're doing okay.

That being said, I have a fic that I haven't updated in a decade. I have three new chapters sitting on my thumb drive, but I don't want to update until I have the thing finished, because I think updating, then not doing so for heaven-knows-how-long again would be even worse. (Especially since I wrote those chapters in May 2013, November 2013, and March 2014, respectively.) ^_^;;

[(Anonymous)]

I really know how you feel. One of my faves hasn't been updated for about 3years and in the last posts the author mentioned health problems so I do worry.

I agree with you, I know there are writers here saying they feel guilty so don't update, but a little message saying they are OK, and have abandoned it or want to continue, either would do.
I also like when they've abandoned if they post a summary of what they'd intended, I have seen that a few times, gives closure!!