ratherastory | Indulge me, I'm curious

What is a ticky?

It's a ticky box. You put a tick in it. :)

In short, I'm just being silly and making people tick off unnecessary boxes. ;)

OHHH!!! And here I thought I was being ignorant of some fanfiction or Livejournal term I hadn't heard yet....

Hee! Nope.

I am just a silly, silly person. :D

Other! It so depends. Say you know someone awesome is writing a loooong fic and the premise is so cool that it makes your brain explode. In that case, obviously, having to wait until they are entirely finished is absolute torture.

On the other and, say there's an awesome fic you stumble across with its evil cliffhangers....well, then, it's better to have it all at once.

Which is of absolutely no use to you. But I stand by it nonetheless.

I personally enjoy either way for posting, but I always find it nice if someone posts on a schedule (although I fail at it myself) like a part a day if it is already finished or a part every couple days or every week on a certain day... gives something to look forward to while giving me time to read!

I like both, but I'll go with chapter at a time for a couple of reasons. One? Who isn't a greedy whore for awesome fic? Chapter at a time means that you get awesomeness rationed out to you. Nicely avoid the DTs that way. Also, if your schedule just went to poop, it's much easier to read a chapter here and there than it is an entire fic. And, yes, of course, there is always the option of reading the completed fic a chapter at a time, but let's be honest. If it's good, it's hell to stop.

As a writer, it's good and bad. It's wonderful to recieve constant feedback while in the writing process, but it's so easy to get derailed, too. As someone that's put a couple of things out there before they were done and gets to live with the fact that they're not ever going to be, it feels sort of unhappy. I also personally find that sometimes posting prevents editing. Now, that can be both good and bad. Good when it pushes you forward past little things that were stalling you. Bad when you're twenty-five pages down the road thinking "why the hell did I DO that?" It might be a turn of phrase, clunky dialogue, or something really critical to the plot that you have to find a way to work around, but you've already put it out there. It's already part of the hive, as it were.

So, really? I don't know. Ticky box!

Other: I hate waiting forever for chapters to be posted, but I also have a really short attention span and am not likely to sit for three hours at my computer reading a novel. So it depends upon the interval between chapters. Two weeks is too long, 1 day is too short.

Interesting. So, I guess about a week is your ideal interval? :)

I'm an all-at-once kind of a gal. Though for writers I know, love and trust not to leave me hanging for too long, I will read a piece at a time. Otherwise I tend to wait until it all goes up and then have a lovely splurge..*g*.

I'm with the person above me; I'll sometimes follow a WIP by a writer I trust, but I prefer to wait and read something all at once; it's much more satisfying to me that way. YMMV, of course - this has to do with the fact that I'm a speed-reader.

I think you should do whatever feels best to you as a writer! That's really what matters. ;)

Having been burned by reading fascinating multi-parters that never get finished, I won't start something until it's all posted now.

I have to admit I'm with Primrose 1. I was feeling a little dumb because I didn't know what a ticky was. I love a regularly updated WIP, which, unlike my own, don't make people wait forever to see the next chapter. If a work is completed or at least outlined, I prefer to read it in installments. Really long multichaps can take too long to read all at once so I put them off and sometimes don't get to them. So for lazy people like me, the weekly posting is preferred!

Adding that as much as I loved Zatnikatels two stories and Leonidaslions i don't know if I would have gotten through them if I'd had to read all fifty some odd chapters at once. I did that with lion's Fetters series and I would probably do it again, but there are some long fics out there right now that I have bookmarked that I'm just not getting to.

I came to them late and read them all in one go, but I know that there are plenty of longer works out there that I haven't got to yet.

The problem with WIPs (other than when they don't get completed) is that unless I have a reliable way of keeping track of them, I sometimes forget that they exist and thus never finish reading them.

Can't win for losing. ;)

Did you find that after Fetters of Fenrir you were just WRUNG OUT?

I read that all in one go and I needed a weekend to recover.

I was. That fic is amazing and awesome and my favorite fic ever in this fandom, but damn was it a rollercoaster. Not unlike the current ups and downs and awesomeness of Disturbia. But there are some fics that just suck you in. The ones that are good, but not like drugs to me I can start and then sometimes they just sit there and I feel really bad, because I want to finish them, but there's so much new stuff coming out every day, it's hard to stick with one thing for thirty or forty chapters at one time.

Huh. I haven't read that one by her. I guess I'll have to go back now.

So much to read, so little time.

Fetters is amazing and different. It's wincest and I'm not sure where you stand on that,but it is really awesome. She's adding to it now in one shots for for one of her two SPN thirty snapshots tables. It's long, but boy is it worth it.

I'm happy to read wincest. Doubt I'll ever write it, but reading it is just fine. If you had asked me this five months ago, I would have scoffed.

Heck, after reading

sinnerforhire's stuff I'm even getting reconciled to RPF/RPS, God help me.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I often bookmark the longer fics and come back to them, but I'm caught because I *hate* starting a WIP and then having it never resolve.

I am conflicted! Hence the poll. ;)

And no worries about the "ticky" thing. I am a frivolous, frivolous girl. :P

Also in defense of myself and my one current WIP, it was never intended to be a WIP. It was a one shot for a prompt meme, but I just couldn't leave it where it was. So now I have a fic that I really want to work on, but I keep getting sidetracked by other things. I have every intention of finishing it, but that doesn't meant much to the few people who would want to read the next chapter.

I prefer to read a fic in one go; if I run out of time then I can bookmark it on the page I'm up to and come back to it later. I'll read both WIPS and PIPS but I prefer them to be updated frequently. I'm greedy that way.

Neat, thanks!

What's a PIP?

Posted in Parts

Kay, the whole chapter thing.... I'm SO TORN. As a READER, I like to have all my goodies laid out before me. because I am of the NOW generation - microwaves, internet, texting blah de blah. Born in 1975, i can remember dial up internet and IT SUCKED.

BUT I am currently working on a chapter-y fic and I'm DYING TO POST SOMETHING SO I CAN GET THE FEEDBACK TO WHICH I HAVE QUICKLY BECOME ADDICTED.

hmmm too much caps lock?

So now I find myself torn between what I want as a writer, and what I know I would want as a reader.

*bites artificial nails*

You read my mind. I am torn between the instant gratification of being a reader and having everything to read all at once, and the trials of being an author and wanting the feedback as I go.

Hence the poll.

Does it show that I'm working on a multi-chapter thing? ;)

Thanks for the feedback!

do you know what you are gonna do? are you gonna post?

at first, I was gonna wait until I was done at least 5 chapters, and then start posting, but I'm worried that real life will derail me.

also, i really like my story, but I don't know if it will be everyone's cup of tea, so part of me is also worried that if I post it and it doesn't get the reaction I hope for, I will be a little crestfallen and not as in love with it as I am right now.

so I'm gonna try to hang on now until I've written to at least chapter 10.

I don't know.

I AM TORN.

I have thirteen-odd chapters written (they're not long chapters), but it's total and utter crack, and I don't know how it'll be received and guh.

I was thinking of posting, and then I got all wibbly and thought "But what if I don't finish and EVERYONE HATES ME FOREVER?" (My inner child is a thirteen-year-old drama queen, apparently)

So, uh. I dunno. I'm hoping that while I'm busy waffling about posting it I'll end up finishing the story (I've been writing it non-stop for two and a half days and I might actually finish it pretty quickly at this rate) and thus make the whole point moot. :P

Uh, does that answer your question? Not really, I know. Sounds like we have a similar problem, though. :P

totally!
13 chapters! wow! when did you start it? May I ask the plot?

I started it Sunday night. The chapters are only about 1,500 words each, give or take. It currently stands at about 22,000 words (it's EATING MY BRAIN).

The plot is utter crack. I was talking in the comments of my birthday fic for

roque_clasique with

elsewhere_kels, in which I mentioned that I had totally forgotten to put in a "Lassie" reference (because I tossed Dean down a well, so it was begging for a "Lassie" joke and I forgot).

She replied that a Lassie reference would have been epic, and suddenly somewhere in my head a lightbulb went off, and a crack fic was born.

The original idea was this:

Sam: "Hey, Timmy, did you fall down a well?"

Dean: "You realize that makes you Lassie, right?"

Sam: *bitchface*

The fic itself is, as I said, utter crack: Gabriel turns Sam into a dog. Wackiness ensues, and then the boys get separated. It's essentially the story of Lassie Come-Home, Winchester-style.

*headdesk*

Homigosh. you've written that much that quickly!??

*hides face* I've been working on/procrastinating on my fic since before xmas!

Uh, yeah. This isn't usual for me, no worries. This fic is eating my brain, as I said. I have NO idea why, but it won't leave me alone.

STOP PROCRASTINATING! How am I supposed to read your wonderful, wonderful fic if you won't write and post it? :)

sorry!

and now I'm working on another thing! I had this idea that there had to be other angels that would want to help Cas. C'mon, THE ENTIRE HOST and NOBODY steps up to be on his side??? so I thought oh I'll just crank out an itty bitty fic.

Forgetting that I am really bad at itty bitty. so here I am 2000 words later and Cas and Metatron are thisclose to having a tete a tete. or wing to wing as the case may be.

haha, brain eating fic! It's a zombie fic!

METATRON!

Okay, I am all sorts of excited now!

Awesome. :D

Posted at once or chapter-by-chapter, I don't really mind either way, but if you're also curious about people's reading habbits, then I represent the type of reader that prefers larger portions of story in one reading. It's not so much about the hatred of cliffhangers - it's just more pleasant if you can enjoy the story with no interruptions.

Indulge me, I'm curious

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