Posting WIPs
Feb. 16th, 2019 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
respoftwAs a reader, I hate WIPs. I don’t like reading on someone else’s schedule and I’ve been burned way too many times with amazing fic that just never got finished. So I don’t read them. I actively avoid them.
As a writer, I love WIPs. I love the feedback and the motivation they give you, I love the guessing that readers do when your WIP is plotty. They’re so much fun as a writer and, frankly, sometimes necessary. Like now; I’m struggling to make words, worse than I have in a long time. So I posted the first tiny part of a fic I’ve been working on (on and off) for about a year now in the hopes that it’ll give me the motivation I need to actually finish something!
Which, of course, means I expect people to read my WIP.
Does that make me a hypocrite?
Where do you guys fall in the WIP debate?
As a writer, I love WIPs. I love the feedback and the motivation they give you, I love the guessing that readers do when your WIP is plotty. They’re so much fun as a writer and, frankly, sometimes necessary. Like now; I’m struggling to make words, worse than I have in a long time. So I posted the first tiny part of a fic I’ve been working on (on and off) for about a year now in the hopes that it’ll give me the motivation I need to actually finish something!
Which, of course, means I expect people to read my WIP.
Does that make me a hypocrite?
Where do you guys fall in the WIP debate?
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Date: 2019-02-17 03:58 am (UTC)I've also read a couple WIPs that don't end with my ship together (even if it's heading that way), but the idea is so fucking fascinating that I can't stay away.
TL;DR - I do read WIPs, but under specific circumstances.