kate: Kate Winslet is wryly amused (Default)
kate ([personal profile] kate) wrote 2014-05-22 11:26 pm (UTC)

Yeah, that's... well, there are a number of reasons that's not for me. For one, as a reader, that is the thing I hate the most. If I see that someone's finished a story but is posting it serially, I won't read it. I might, if I get recced after it's complete or something, but chances are I will totally ignore it and not even remember it once it's complete.

For another, the serial writing experience is all about doing it a little bit at a time - and having to work around the roadblocks you build yourself. That's the whole challenge.

And the last thing is that I don't write in chapters. When I write massive fics, they're just massive fics, I don't organize them into chapters, and to do that after I was done with the fic would annoy me.

So yeah, probably not for me, though there are certainly plenty of people in fandom who do it.

I mostly live in fear that I won't finish WIPs, so that's why I don't write them. It's bad enough to have a writing folder full of fics I won't finish - having an AO3 account full of fics that are 24/? would be horrible.

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