I came here to tell you that I just read your Merlin fic 'By The Pricking of my Thumbs' (which was brilliant by the way and I will put a proper comment in the right place) but I spotted this and had to say YES!!! I AGREE
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I too have wondered if, perhaps, the poor writers of unfinished WIPs have encountered some tragic real life circumstances that has made it impossible to complete their work - and that may be true in a small percentage of cases, but most of the time, I suspect they have just moved on to the "new and shiny". I say this because, I, as a writer, am well aware of the temperamental nature of my personal "muse" which drives my inspiration. My fandom interests are fluid - and I shift from fandom to fandom. When I am "into" something, I can be very driven to read and write in that fandom, but eventually that passion wanes a bit, and something else takes its place. As a result, I have several WIPs of my own, but you will not find them posted anywhere because I have made it a rule to only post completed pieces. Often, I will cycle back to a fandom and pick up where I left off on one of my WIPs, and eventually post them when they are done. This can take a long time. My TOS story, Wider Than the Sky literally was "in process" for years!
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I should point out that would never post it - I just do it for my own enjoyment on my own PC Although once I sent my version to a writer and it prompted her to actually finish the work herself. *grin*
Maybe we should start a group. We can search the internet for unfinished work and post a complaint. Maybe with enough 'comments' people will stop doing it and do as we do - don't post till its finished. LOL I've got two in my LJ account that are set to private viewing - when I finally get round to finishing them I will make them public, till then they are my failure aone to purview. LOL.
....and I just discovered another thing I hate! Just happened again and I needed somewhere to rant and I figured you may well understand;
People who split things into little pages so they can tell them selves they've written a 12 or 25 or 32 chapter story and you get all excited and then realise that each 'chapter' is like a snippet and you're lucky if there is actually 3 chapters worth there but they don't do links properly so you have to keep going backwards and forewards and clicking on links and waiting for pages to load for something they could have put on one page!! Grrrrrr!
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Although once I sent my version to a writer and it prompted her to actually finish the work herself. *grin*
Maybe we should start a group. We can search the internet for unfinished work and post a complaint.
Maybe with enough 'comments' people will stop doing it and do as we do - don't post till its finished. LOL
I've got two in my LJ account that are set to private viewing - when I finally get round to finishing them I
will make them public, till then they are my failure aone to purview. LOL.
PaleoM
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....and I just discovered another thing I hate! Just happened again and I needed somewhere to rant and I figured you may well understand;
People who split things into little pages so they can tell them selves they've written a 12 or 25 or 32 chapter story and you get all excited and then realise that each 'chapter' is like a snippet and you're lucky if there is actually 3 chapters worth there but they don't do links properly so you have to keep going backwards and forewards and clicking on links and waiting for pages to load for something they could have put on one page!! Grrrrrr!
That annoys me.
Thank you for listening *Grin*
Paleom
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