[ SECRET POST #3378 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3378 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

actually, what bothers me more is the very obvious incomplete stuff marked as complete.

if I get to the end of a chapter and it is a fucking cliffhanger, it is NOT a complete story.

THIS is why I don't troll for fic anymore. I can't even trust the 'complete' and 'incomplete' markers. I don't care if it is in progress, just if it is in progress, don't mark it COMPLETE

(maybe I should have made a secret)

[diet_poison]

That definitely sounds dumb. Nothing wrong with WIPs but they should be marked as such.

[(Anonymous)]

sorry, have a migraine, had to go lay back down for a bit.

see, I'm wondering if it is just a whole miscommunication problem. "Oh, my chapter is complete, so I'll make it as complete!" and then the whole story shows up as complete.

Or they just don't know what the word complete really means. (Beginning, middle and ending... especially ENDING.)

I stopped posting stories years ago because everything has been of epic length lately and nothing is complete. I have novel lengths stories I'd love to post but, they still aren't done (or the series isn't done or whatever) I have abandoned works in progress... which upsets me at times but not enough to go back quite yet. And I don't want to do that with new stories.

Just, I never had the gall to mark my WIPs as complete. oye vie.

[diet_poison]

Hmm...maybe. But if you (general you) are marking chapters as complete and it's coming up as story = complete I think you should probably brush up on the mechanics of the fic-posting sites you're using.

I feel like once someone accidentally did this once someone else would get upset and then they'd learn, rather than leave it up that way.

If it's really common, though, then I'm sure at least a few people do it on purpose in hopes that people will start reading their WIPs when they otherwise wouldn't (either for the hits or for the feedback) and that's pretty shitty. :/

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, I've been running into that more and more often recently. Like, there's a reason I filter by 'complete', and it's so annoying to accidentally find myself reading a WIP.

[(Anonymous)]

apparently it is a problem on FF.net and AO3. I just sort of got huffy and gave up after like the tenth or twentieth one.

[(Anonymous)]

Was it a cliffhanger, or an open ending? It can be hard to tell the difference between the two sometimes, especially when a writer's trying for the latter but doesn't quite nail it.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I've definitely read fics labeled 1/1 that "concluded" mid-story and that were followed by author's endnotes talking about what was going to happen in the next chapter and/or what day the author planned to post the next chapter.

[(Anonymous)]

open ending?

no, these were definitely chapters that were a middle of a story with no type of conclusion whatsoever. there wasn't any type of ending at all, open to interpretation, ambiguous or otherwise.

In fact, some of them didn't even really conclude well as chapters. But that is me being nit picky.