You know...

[leethet]

...something just occurred to me in light of the flood of vignettes that seem to be out there ... is it going to become the preferred style of online fic-writing, and are the longer stories I must assume someone's writing somewhere all reserved for zines?
That would be a bummer. I like long stuff, and I liked it being free. :)

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Yeah...

[leethet.livejournal.com]

...see, I have this split personality about WIPs. In the other (vast) fandom, I'm one of those people you're referring to. I have posted WIPs on my LJ there, but only because I knew for a fact I would finish them (just finished one there recently, in fact *g*). My secret is simply that I don't post WIPs unless they're at this certain point -- there's always a magical "point" for me, at which I know I'm going to finish a story. So readers get that steady supply. I don't really know why I started to post WIPs in that fandom, except as an experiment but (yay) I've found that when I'm more than half done and the story's languishing, posting it (and the nice responses people give!) shoves me into finishing sooner, rather than letting it lie about. :)

And in MFU, I'd made it a practice to simply not post WIPs simply so that I wouldn't risk leaving people hanging. Considering, though, that in the other fandom it's pushed me to finish stuff, I have been thinking about doing it here...

When it comes to reading, I do prefer to read stuff in one swell foop. Like many, I've started to read good WIPs and then the writer STOPS. Arrrrrghghggh.

But then I don't do vignettes anyway. All my stuff is "longer" stuff. :)

Re: Yeah...

[bluster.livejournal.com]

I've been burned by WIPs and generally wait to read them until they're finished. However, if you posted a MFU WIP I'd probably read it. But then I'd *really* be a nag because I'd want to see more, and soon.