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⌈ Secret Post #4519 ⌋

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[Cow and Chicken]

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[Mary Death]

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[Deus Ex: Mankind Divided]

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[unrelated art by Kono Bairei]

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[Absolutely Fabulous, Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley]

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[Jigokuraku]

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[Ruby Rose as Batwoman]

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[Good Burger]

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(This thread prompted by:) I have mentioned here before that I have a favourite writer who is, sadly, not great at finishing things - they will often post a few thousand words of something really cool, then lose interest and abandon it forever. Which is a shame, because I'd love to see where these stories go, but the author is not my slave, I'm not their boss, I can deal with my disappointment like an adult.

On a recent work, though, someone left a SUPER passive-aggressive comment that was like: "This is great! It's a shame you're going to abandon it in a chapter or two to go write something else!"
There was more, but you get the drift.
Who the hell thinks that's a reasonable comment to make? Or even vaguely helpful? It's not like being an ass is going to make the writer want to go back to your favourite abandoned project.

Lol wow at that comment. If I was the author I'd probably respond with something like "Maybe I do it just to piss you off, hun. :)"

It's funny, because that exact type of writer is why I won't read wips until they're completely done, but an acquaintance of mine that has the same problem came the fuck down on me for taking that position because "not getting feedback during the process kills [their] motivation to write it" so it's like... lmao getting feedback doesn't help you either so why should anyone suffer abandoned story after abandoned story just to give you a few buttpats?

I didn't say that, because, as you say, not helpful, but... I understand the frustration, haha.

I only read completed fic. That option is always checked.

It has saved me so much frustration! In the past I used to get so annoyed by the lack of closure that I'd write my own ending (as pure drawerfic, no one else ever saw it), but that wasn't really that satisfying either. It's much better that I know a story is completed before I start reading it.

(This extends outside of fic, too-- the whole reason I haven't read ASoIaF yet, haha. And at this rate, I may never...)

Writers who whinge and bitch about not getting enough comments drive me up the wall, even more so when they complain about the sort of comments they get on top of it.

I hate that it's always, without fail, trying to shift the onus of completion to the reader instead of the author. Like they're incapable of taking responsibility for their own projects. I get it! Writing and not getting the response you imagined can suck! But it's not their fault that you're not finishing, that's all on you.

Agreed. Especially that last part. If they want to regulate the types of reviews they get, fine, their story, that's their call, whatever...but then they shouldn't be surprised when that reduces the amount of comments they get as a result.

Plus, it just feels plain disrespectful to me. I'm the sort who will happily write long, positive reviews when I read something, and I love getting those kinds of reviews in turn.

But I also know that not everyone is going to review like that, for a whole host of reasons. At the end of the day, somebody took the time out to write something nice and positive about something I wrote, no matter how lengthy the review is. So I'm gonna take it for the genuine compliment it is and thank them for it.

(I'm also amused when people complain about not getting reviews because I grew up in an era where I was writing stories and not posting them anywhere online for comments and reviews. The only people who ever would see my writing were likely my family :p.

That's not to say I can't sympathize with the feeling of not getting any response to something you write, of course-now that I do share stories online, I get it. I've felt that way on occasion myself. But I don't get how complaining and blaming readers is supposed to entice them to review more.)

As a writer who does that, I mostly get annoyed when people assume my fics are abandoned. They aren't! Sure, I've been writing one of them since 2007, and I update it maybe once a year, but darnit, it WILL get finished eventually and if I want to write a million other things around that, I'm totally allowed.

XD Of course, I also don't get mad when people don't review or read my fic-du-jour either. Comments are nice, but I get that the way I update is frustrating, and that's cool.

But I do wish people would stop assuming my fics are abandoned LOL.

I AM that kind of writer, which is why I generally only post one-shots. The one multi-chapter fic I've posted recently was had a completed first draft before I posted chapter one.

I'd like to think I'll get back to some of the older fics, someday ... but probably not.

(And I have no issue with people not deciding to read my stuff because of that.)

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