I don't plead for feedback and much though I love it, I'd write if I wasn't getting any because I love writing more. Seriously addicted in fact ;-)
Feedback is sweet but no one worth their salt writes _for_ feedback or tailors fics to get more of it. It's a pleasant side effect of an already pleasant activity.
A fic needs a reader to be complete? Maybe. But it's got one; the author. First reader, often the harshest critic, closest to it.
Just because you've chosen one fic to be deemed good enough that is omg has to be finished, doesn't mean a thing if the author's gone cold on it. You cannot write to order. You can't force it. If you tried it'd be unreadable anyway.
You start a fic, any fic, that has a question mark in the number of parts, or where the author hasn't specifically stated in the notes that the fic is complete, ready, and she's going to post daily or whatever, and you're taking a chance that it might never be finished. It's why some people never start WIPs; they can't stand the thought of never having an ending, or waiting to see a cliffhanger resolved.
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Date: 2005-11-09 06:24 pm (UTC)Feedback is sweet but no one worth their salt writes _for_ feedback or tailors fics to get more of it. It's a pleasant side effect of an already pleasant activity.
A fic needs a reader to be complete? Maybe. But it's got one; the author. First reader, often the harshest critic, closest to it.
Just because you've chosen one fic to be deemed good enough that is omg has to be finished, doesn't mean a thing if the author's gone cold on it. You cannot write to order. You can't force it. If you tried it'd be unreadable anyway.
You start a fic, any fic, that has a question mark in the number of parts, or where the author hasn't specifically stated in the notes that the fic is complete, ready, and she's going to post daily or whatever, and you're taking a chance that it might never be finished. It's why some people never start WIPs; they can't stand the thought of never having an ending, or waiting to see a cliffhanger resolved.