[ SECRET POST #2364 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2364 ⌋

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Comments

[asecretchord]

Guilty as charged. I posted a 240,000 word fic a chapter a week for 20 weeks. I was afraid people would balk at the length of it and was hoping the work was solid enough to draw in readers a 10,000 words at a time.

I just posted the last chapter tonight, as it turns out. Live and learn, I suppose.

[(Anonymous)]

Well the point is that you finished posting it, and didn't just abandon it after making a promise of completion. I'll gladly wait a week for a new chapter if I like the fic, but quitting halfway through is just ridiculous and drives me insane.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that's more understandable. Novel length fics do tend to scare a lot of people off, and I think it's fine to maximize potential exposure to an audience. That's a lot of work, and it would be a shame if it warded off potential audience with the word count.

Though it doesn't sound like you threw the fact around and then left your hangers-on clinging to the knowledge that it's out there where they can't see it.

Did posting it like that draw in more of a readership?

[(Anonymous)]

1) Kudos for finishing it and posting your WIP! If I was in HP fandom, I would drop everything to go and read this!

2) It's up to you, but as a reader, I should point out that you can actually turn off some readers that way: personally I love long stories, the longer the better and would rush over a really, really long story.

WIPs on the other hand I usually filter out and when a very long WIP is complete, I still skip over them or if for some reason I do read them, I am often much more critical of it than if I had read it in one big gulp.

The very few times I read a WIP story progressively, one chapter at a time, I ended up being disappointed in the story because it gave me time to see all the inconsistencies and the repeated suspense simply killed my emotional involvement.

But as the author, I think it's your decision alone: on the other hand, not posting the end of a WIP? That strikes me as immoral, because it betrays the trust readers placed in the author.

3) Mind you, what I find funny are WIP authors who beg for comments and threaten not to post the rest of the story if they don't receive enough comments, without the common sense to understand that most people do not read incomplete stories because they have been burned too often by abandoned WIPs... talk about hypocrisy!

Note that this last most definitely does not apply to you since it's clear that you finish your WIPs (and very possibly had the whole story completed already when you started posting).

[asecretchord]

...but as a reader, I should point out that you can actually turn off some readers that way...

The funny thing is that I'm the same way. What I usually do with novel-length WIPs is read the first couple of chapters, flag it to follow and keep an eye on it so I can read the entire thing when it's finished. I love long-fic like burning, but some folks are just turned off by it unless they don't feel like they have to read it all at once.

I might post my other enormous fic all in one fell swoop (when it's finished) and see how that turns out.

I can't imagine holding a story hostage for comments, but I've seen it done over and over again. Boggles the mind.