At the risk of being wankish

[ducks_in_a_row]

WIPs. I don't get it. Why are there so many of them? Is it a fandom-generational (old timers vs newbies) thing? Is it fandom (as in one fandom does, one doesn't) thing? Is it even possibly a lj thing vs a yahoo group/archive thing? I really want to understand because it's messing with my fic reading enjoyment. I don't read WIPs which means that in

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[lt_kitty]

I often wait for stories to be halfway done, or at least have a final number of chapters (3/7 instead of 3/?), or only start multichapters if I'm familiar with the author. Less likely to get burned or stranded.

Although, actually, I'm at a point in most of my fandoms where I'm reading mostly a few authors I like rather than the fandom or pairing fic comms, because even in the most interesting, compelling, and mature pairings there are whiny shippy fic writers that write sappy OOT fics that bore my socks and pants back on.

A smut- whip otoh....
Smut with whips is often a good thing. *g*

It's sort of a hybrid--it was as much a series of one-shots as it was installments in a larger single story.

The "WIP" I'm reading is pretty much like that. Mostly a series of stories that are AU from S2 of TW, with a few porny vignettes taking place between episodes, but it has ontinuous character development that is very different from both TW and DW, and is now up to something like 48 chapters.

But, yeah, not exactly the sort of WIP that drives you crazy.