Questions about Recs

[gracerene]

In honor of Rectober having wrapped up (SO MUCH FUN! all the kudos to birdsofshore for being awesome!), I thought I would ask ya'll a few questions about recs.

Obviously reccing is a big part of what I do on here, and I read a ton of fic with a variety of pairings and in multiple different fandoms. But I was wondering how other people went about recs. My "

Comments

[huldrejenta]

1. I agree with what you say here - and I have to confess to not always being very good at the "why I like it" part when I rec myself. I always write something, but not always a lot, I'm afraid. Definitely something I can improve! When I rec on crack_broom, I usually add some more thoughts about why I like it then when I rec on my own journal.
And yeah, also title, link, summary, word count and rating.

2. I usually prefer it when recs add this part, and somethimes it can really make me want to check out a fic or artwork. But especially if the reccer is unknown to me, I tend to look at the summary and excerpt (almost) just as much.

4. I rather like excerpts, especially if it's a rec for something I usually wouldn't read. An excerpt might definitely tempt me to check something out just as much as a reccer's reasons for liking it.
I didn't add excerpts on recs on my own journal before, but I did for this Rectober, pretty much because I rather like them myself.

I think it's okay to include issues you for some reason have a problem with, if the majority of your rec is positive :)
If the problems became so huge that I didn't want to finish the fic, I wouldn't want to rec it.

[gracerene]

Excellent :D

Yeah, it can be hard coming up with the "why" part, I feel like I am just throwing out the same kinds of phrases, and it just doesn't capture the brilliance of the fic I'm reccing!