Reccing/Reading philosophy

[gaiaanarchy]

So, I figure since I seem to be reccing so much nowadays, I ought to explain my reccing philosophy a bit

Comments

[roaringmice]

I think you're right about the titles. This, for me, also flows over into the summary. There are often key words that, if the author uses them, usually indicate either bad writing or cliche. And actually, I often don't mind cliche at all, so long as the writer does something different with it. Or if the author attacks a cliche - say, a character goes blind - but they get it RIGHT.

Don't get me started on WIP. Long ones I quickly lose interest, especially if there are a ton of very short chapters or if the story is fairly generic and each chapter is a long time coming. I usually end up forgetting what came earlier.