The torment that is the WiP - Discuss

[moonlite_tryst]

That's discuss people, not flame!

As an author who has been a bugger for starting to post chaptered fics and not finishing them this may seem a strange post, but here goes.

Whilst spring cleaning my LJ, I clicked on a link for one of the greatest H/D WiPs ever written IMO. Although labelled as catagorically not abandoned, it has not been updated for almost three and a half years *cries* and who knows if it ever will because the author is now writing in another fandom *cries some more*, which leads me to wonder:

If a WiP has been abandoned for a period of time, e.g. over 2 years or more, and the author was close to the end, should said author post a synopsis regarding how things were going to end for the reader's benefit?

Does an author have any obligation to readers who have followed/are following a WiP, or does the label WiP translate into read at your peril?

Thinky thoughts authors, readers?

Comments

[symetric.livejournal.com]

haha, me too! CP is the only wip i will let myself follow. it was too good to miss, and i trust the author. :))

[moonlite-tryst.livejournal.com]

*looks hopefully for the next installment*

[moonlite-tryst.livejournal.com]

i trust the author

I think I do but there is much gnashing of teeth when months go by with no word from her. *clings to CP*

[symetric.livejournal.com]

*looks hopefully for the next installment*
me to darling, me too. it's around the time of the month when she usually posts. and she's implied that the second half is all ready done.

it's the same with her personal LJ. and then there was the time she had writers block, which fair enough, but it does kill. have i told you how much i hate waiting? *wails* lol.