I'm at that point in the story where I start forgetting things that happened earlier and wondering if I can maybe get to the action scene (aka the whole point of the story) before the 30K word mark (stop laughing,
ileliberte) and so I'm going to dither further by pondering what to do when it's done. So, a poll. Except without the ticky boxes, since I do not
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You are very welcome. Enjoy your new capabilities - you deserve them!
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Thank you.
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My office, for some odd reason, wants us to NOT cruise the internet during business hours, and LJ i amongst the sites that have been blocked. So, if it hasn't been a busy day fic-wise, I will read stories under 30k that night, anything over 30k I usually bookmark for later reading (> the weekend). Your stories? I'll stay up until the wee early hours to finish. I have also been known to cut/paste to a word doc and email it to myself at the office for lunchtime reading. ;-)
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You might want to save the current WIP for a weekend; it's 27K words and I've gotten nowhere.
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And I just wanted to say thank you for including Asian timezones in your poll: I actually had ticky-boxes I could tick! Yay!
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I'd posit that there's a correlation between story content and timeliness with respect to aired episodes -- an episode tag versus a story set without a particular timestamp.
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2. Writers lose me if they only have a by-chapter format and they don't have links embedded in each chapter to the chapters ahead and behind. That's a minimum. I should not have to go digging through their tags for the earlier chapters of the story, especially if this is the final, finished, version of the story. The better ones include links to all the other chapters in each chapter. If I forget to tag or bookmark something and I forget about it, I don't worry too much: if it's good, it'll show up on a recs page or Delicious or something.
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2) Putting in sequential chapter links is a pain when coding, but I view it as a necessary pain. For my own stuff, I tend to do 'links to all chapters' for LJ serials and 'links to next chapter and story homepage' for the webpage -- if someone is coming to a story late, it's bad business sense to not let them catch up.
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Unlike a lot of the people I see speaking up on the subject lately, however, I have no problem with WIPs and am only disappointed if one I really liked doesn't get finished, as opposed to being annoyed by the phenomenon in general. And if I liked it enough to be disappointed, I probably liked it enough that I'd rather see some of it than none at all.
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WIPs are definitely a hot-button issue in terms of fandom readership. It wasn't quite what I meant -- I was going more for cutting up a finished story for easier handling -- but it is what most people think of when "chaptered fic" gets brought up.
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