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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?

Date: 2011-02-24 09:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moonlite-tryst.livejournal.com
Do you have abandoned WiPs? I can't think of any.

Date: 2011-02-24 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snottygrrl.livejournal.com
my stuff is more abandoned series (of which i have several), as i've never written a true wip (unless you count the one chapter i wrote for a fest that never got continued). i couldn't write a synopsis now if i tried, because i hadn't planned everything out and i'm not sure what the ending would be, even on the ones that i was close to finishing the series. i do get hopeful comments every now and then asking if i'm going to write more on them and i try to always answer as nicely as i can. however if i was getting heaps of them, and having people demand the next chapter (which people do), i imagine i'd get a bit snitty.

Date: 2011-02-24 10:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moonlite-tryst.livejournal.com
and having people demand the next chapter (which people do)

Oh yes, I've seen that quite a bit. There's also the UPDATE NOOOOOOOOOWWW! comments after an author has explained at the top of the post that there'll be no more due to other pressures.

I'm now thinking that just a note on the last chapter to say maybe baby or abandon hope all ye who read here rather than nothing would be a consideration.

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