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[schneefink]

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.

Comments

[goodbyebird]

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[naye]

I... do this too!

But I only read a handful of WIPs, so I can't even imagine how stressed you must get about it!

As a writer I absolutely don't mind if someone doesn't leave a comment on one chapter and then comes back later with another comment? ALL COMMENTS are good comments! :D But when I read I try to do so when I have the time to also comment. (And I have a small backlog of things I have read but haven't commented on, and I do guilt vaguely about them...)

[hokuton_punch]

Oof, I feel that. I try to be good at commenting, but - often I'm so bad at coming up with things to say, even if I really enjoyed it... /o\ Sometimes ESPECIALLY if I really enjoyed it or was totally blown away.

[beatrice_otter]

If I don't comment on a fic right after I've read it, I'm not going to remember what I wanted to comment about, and probably not going to be able to come up with anything better than "I liked it" without re-reading it.

[genarti]

Oof, yes, this describes me perfectly also. (I say, casting a guilty glance at several tabs that've been open for uh weeks or months.)

[duskpeterson]

Honestly, I'm always astonished when readers post more than one comment to a multi-chapter work. Not sure that helps since you already know that your brain is trying to weird you out. :)

[michelel72]

I have posted only one WIP in my entire fanfic career. (Getting it through beta took far, far, far longer than I had planned.) There were a total of five chapters, and someone commented at length on the first four chapters ... but not the fifth. And yeah, I worried that they hated the resolution! (They later came back and left a lovely comment on the last chapter -- they'd just forgotten.) So, unfortunately, yeah, I get why you'd worry about that. :(

I used to comment on stories, but I somehow lost the ability to come up with anything more coherent to say than "I liked this", and I figure a kudo connotes that just as coherently with no pressure for comment replies. It's a shame, though, because some lovely relationships came out of commenting on fics, back in the day ....