#but even this little bit SUUUUCKS 😭😭😭

[rexscanonwife]

Urgghh.......cramps...

[musette22]

Idk why I'm writing it to you, maybe it's the need for consolation lol. I keep falling in love with wip fics that end up abandoned, and it just makes me so sad, especially because it's often fics with unique (or at least rare) premises, so it's difficult to find smth similar to read. My 2 recentish examples are Not another romcom (you even mentioned it a while ago here, iirc) and another fic where Stucky met up in dreams and both assumed their lover didn't exist in real life...and the most devastating part is that this text stopped updating just before the chapter when they were supposed to finally meet for real😭 I know writers have their own reasons, life is hard, and I'm grateful for the chapters they managed to publish, but every once in a while i look up their accs in hope, and alas. Does smth similar happen to you sometimes? As both the reader and the writer, you probably have a deeper perspective.

Hi my lovely! I'm so sorry for not replying to this sooner, I've had a crazy few days and I haven't had time to sit down and think about messages that required a bit more thought than just a key smash! I didn't mean to ignore you, I promise. Because I've been where you've been and it suuuucks... It really does. And I don't mean the authors suck for not finishing works, I just mean that getting invested in a story and then never knowing how it ends is a tough pill to swallow :(

From a reader's perspective, that's happened to me a few times too and there are still a few unfinished fics that I think about regularly. The ones that got away 💔 And that's basically one of the main reasons why I've decided not to read WIPs anymore, unless the author states beforehand that the fic is already finished and just being posted chapter by chapter. I just don't want to go through what you're describing again, it's just a little bit heartbreaking, you know?

And from a writer's perspective, I can say that the fear of abandoning a fic halfway and disappointing readers is a big part of why I never post WIPs. Up until now, I've only posted completed works, all of it in one go. I might try my hand at posting in chapters sometime in the near future, but I still think I'll finish it first before I post it. I just have too many unfinished unpublished WIPs sitting around on my hard drive, and I just can't promise life won't get in the way of finishing them, even if I've already started posting them, you know? For some people it's a good incentive to finish fics though, I totally get that too! And I also know that it's important to show authors love on WIPs to support them and encourage them to finish them, but I try to do my bit by reblogging and obsessively checking whether or not they're finished yet and then reading them immediately once they are, I guess 😅

I hope you'll have more luck with reading WIPs in the future, lovely! Sending you a big hug 💕