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schneefink) wrote2019-05-11 04:06 pm
schneefink) wrote2019-05-11 04:06 pm
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Kudos+
I don't comment on every fic I read, but I try to leave a lot of comments, and when I can longer ones. I like it, it's part thank-you, part that I enjoy talking about fics I liked, and part that it makes the authors happy and I like that too. (The fewer comments a fic gets the more I try to leave comments of my own.)
The downside is that I have a huge backlog of fics I still want to comment on and feel to various degrees anxious/guilty about if I don't. It's the worst with fics that I love so much that I want to write longer comments but that takes time and often a reread, and WIPs where I usually comment on every chapter – if I don't comment on a particular chapter or leave a much shorter comment than usual, will the author think I hated it? A few times now I stopped commenting on a WIP because I didn't get around to commenting before the author updated once and then told myself I'd catch up and then that never happened, and knowing that that's dumb doesn't help.
Prompted by me spending too much time today commenting on fic instead of doing something actually productive. This is one of my brain's favorite activities to pretend I'm not procrastinating.
The downside is that I have a huge backlog of fics I still want to comment on and feel to various degrees anxious/guilty about if I don't. It's the worst with fics that I love so much that I want to write longer comments but that takes time and often a reread, and WIPs where I usually comment on every chapter – if I don't comment on a particular chapter or leave a much shorter comment than usual, will the author think I hated it? A few times now I stopped commenting on a WIP because I didn't get around to commenting before the author updated once and then told myself I'd catch up and then that never happened, and knowing that that's dumb doesn't help.
Prompted by me spending too much time today commenting on fic instead of doing something actually productive. This is one of my brain's favorite activities to pretend I'm not procrastinating.
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Also, this is one of the "I have limited time" things. I read a lot of fanfic and I know I will never be able to comment on them without having to pretty much give up my job. Is it fair to the author who spent probably a long time writing it? No. But at this point I really have to go with "life isn't fair, deal with it". They have fun writing it, after all, otherwise what's the point?
I do take the time to comment on stories that have really captured me, though, but other than that a Kudos will have to suffice.
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That would at least remove the WIP-dilemma you mentioned in your post. (I do have WIPs subscribed - AO3 - or bookmarked, so when they are finished I can have a go at them.)
Setting priorities and sticking to them ist pretty much one of the hardest things in life, for almost everyone (me included). =/
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That. Right there. Biggest frustration for me. All the work and no payoff in the end. *shudders*
It's like: why did I invest so much of my time and emotion in reading this when the author coulnd't even be bothered to finish it? Therefore: no WIPs for me.
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