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Question of the day part 7
FrickingKaos:
It takes a lot for me to stop reading something. There's only one story I've stopped reading, one where the author kept saying in her chapter notes she wasn't going to update because people weren't reviewing enough. After I saw that I became annoyed and stopped reading.
If someone doesn't update frequently I can deal with it, but like I said in my other post, it makes me hesitant to try anything new by them.
mare:
Oh, bringing up the author's note brings me to another question since I tend to disappear until the weekends lol
Does an author's personality ever spark you to read or not read a story? For instance, if you know they are just the sweetest thing ever but you know you won't enjoy the story, are you more willing to give it a try? Or the opposite, if the author is self involved and threatening not to update unless they get reviews does that ever influence whether to read their stuff or not?
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: mare on October 08, 2012, 06:08:08 AM ---Today's question: What if anything makes you stop reading a story? Have you ever stopped reading a story even after you had hit more than the halfway mark?
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If the story just isn't interesting me I'll stop within the first few chapters. But if I've got past the first few chapters or halfway through, then I'll carry on reading because I want to know how it ends. I usually know after a few chapters whether I'm going to like the story.
I can handle slow updates as long as I know the author is still around and hasn't vanished off the face of the earth. That's why there are some stories which have been recommended to me that I won't read, because I don't want to invest all that time into reading only to never know the ending, it would annoy me, lol.
FrickingKaos:
If someone is a nice person or a bitch, I will still read if the story interests me. That doesn't really play a factor if the story is well written and I like it.
I will admit when I first started at AC I did ask for reviews in my very early stories. I didn't hold off from updating, I just didn't know any better lol
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: mare on October 08, 2012, 01:46:34 PM ---Oh, bringing up the author's note brings me to another question since I tend to disappear until the weekends lol
Does an author's personality ever spark you to read or not read a story? For instance, if you know they are just the sweetest thing ever but you know you won't enjoy the story, are you more willing to give it a try? Or the opposite, if the author is self involved and threatening not to update unless they get reviews does that ever influence whether to read their stuff or not?
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If I know I won't enjoy the story, then I won't read it, no matter who has written it. Just like I wouldn't expect someone I was friends with to read my stuff just because we were friends, I know that we all like different things and I'd hate for someone to feel like they had to read.
If a writer was begging for reviews and threatening not to post until they got the amount of reviews they wanted, well that would make me not want to review at all. I might read the story though, depends how good it is.
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