The torment that is the WiP - Discuss
Feb. 23rd, 2011 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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?
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Date: 2011-02-24 10:43 pm (UTC)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.