Over here from hogwarts_today, though you have probably seen me around in other places.
Anyway, I always rant and rave about the evil of WIPs (it's pronounced more easily and rant as much in person as I do online) frequently. Mainly as a result of entering fandom and having Underwater Light and Love Under Will being two of the most highly recced fics at the time and NOONE warned me they were WIPs. I'm with you on the little time and patience for WIPs thing, but they do get tempting when they float through my journal or I cruise by them and the plot looks interesting. Mainly why I'm chiming in here in addition to the poll is to give you an idea of something to do. I get so many recs through my journal that I don't have time to read them all. If something looks interesting, I bookmark it under three different categories. (And one section has subcategories based on pairings but that's a sidenote.) First category is where everything goes at first, it's the one-shots section if I can't immediately identify it as something that belongs in the other two. If, when going to read, I discover it goes in something else, I file it away appropriately for when I have more time. The other two categories, as you may have guessed, are multi-chapter fics and Works In Progress. I go through the second of these two every few months or so and if a link is over 6 months old and the story hasn't been actively written on in almost as long (without a really good reason), I delete it. This way, if something looked interesting, I know that I've still got it for when it's finally done ... but if it's obviously not getting worked on, I have the satisfaction of deleting it and making it go away. Best of both worlds in my mind.
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Date: 2006-01-04 04:35 pm (UTC)Anyway, I always rant and rave about the evil of WIPs (it's pronounced more easily and rant as much in person as I do online) frequently. Mainly as a result of entering fandom and having Underwater Light and Love Under Will being two of the most highly recced fics at the time and NOONE warned me they were WIPs. I'm with you on the little time and patience for WIPs thing, but they do get tempting when they float through my journal or I cruise by them and the plot looks interesting. Mainly why I'm chiming in here in addition to the poll is to give you an idea of something to do. I get so many recs through my journal that I don't have time to read them all. If something looks interesting, I bookmark it under three different categories. (And one section has subcategories based on pairings but that's a sidenote.) First category is where everything goes at first, it's the one-shots section if I can't immediately identify it as something that belongs in the other two. If, when going to read, I discover it goes in something else, I file it away appropriately for when I have more time. The other two categories, as you may have guessed, are multi-chapter fics and Works In Progress. I go through the second of these two every few months or so and if a link is over 6 months old and the story hasn't been actively written on in almost as long (without a really good reason), I delete it. This way, if something looked interesting, I know that I've still got it for when it's finally done ... but if it's obviously not getting worked on, I have the satisfaction of deleting it and making it go away. Best of both worlds in my mind.
Take the idea for what it's worth!
-Draconis Leona-