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⌈ Secret Post #6341 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Do you comment on fics?

[(Anonymous)]

I only comment when I feel like I have something to say about it that I want the author to know about. If there's lots of good bits as I'm reading where the story's making interesting things happen in my head or that I really don't want to forget to mention, I'll get out a text document and make little notes for myself - it can be just copying a line I thought was amazing to remember to praise it or whatever, and then I can refer back to that when the story finishes. Which can really help if I get to the end with a sort of stunned feeling, like "that was amazing but where do I begin to tell them how great it was?"

I guess it kind of depends on the author whether they'd appreciate commentary like "good grammar," and you're right, "good fic" isn't really saying much about why you liked it. (Some will like literally anything, though.) But ... saying "I liked it because [these things you did] really reached me" gives the writer more to be happy about. And it doesn't have to be positive in the vein of "your story made me happy" - something like "oh, man, I was beside myself and reading through my fingers when it looked like [character] was in danger" tells the writer that you cared a lot about what was going to happen. That kind of intense attention and your readers having feelings over it is a big deal to a lot of writers, too. Often, you can also look at existing comments to get a sense of what a particular person appreciates where feedback is concerned. If that's part of what's holding you back.

And commenting can be a lot of fun. How many times have you read something that isn't on the AO3 and felt like you wished you could tell someone what that story made you feel, but there's no one to tell? It makes reading and writing a much more you-can-socialize-around-this activity than it is when books just go out into the world. Even with niches that get very few readers.