do you follow (m)any WIPs?

[ratcreature]

I'm curious, how many, if any, WIPs do you currently follow? Also which they are, especially if they are in one of my current main fandoms, to see whether I'm missing anything good. I know not everyone likes WIPs, so obviously this is not the post for WIP haters. I like following WIPs along, which has become obvious to me once again now that I read ST: Reboot, where WIPs seem more common than they are in SGA, so the number I keep track of has increased greatly in a short time.

So here's the list of WIPs I currently follow, i.e. WIPs I subscribe to updates for or regularly check (I stopped reading some HP WIPs I used to follow, because currently I'm not much interested in HP, so I'm not listing those). For simplicity it's just title and author with a link, as these are not recs, though I recced some before, and obviously want to know what happens next for all of them:


SGA

Crimes Against Humanity by seperis (unfortunately not updated in a while)
Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves by auburn
In Ways You Can't Possibly Imagine by telesilla
The Little Sister by saffronhouse
Pegasus Ascendant by Tielan
Qui Habitat by Domenika Marzione
Strange Aeon by slybrarian
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by tassosss (unfortunately not updated in a while)

Star Trek: Reboot

24 x 22 cm by leupagus and rageprufrock
As Morning Shows the Day by jade_dragoness
Conversational Vulcan by Blue Moon3
Divergence by 13empress
Don't Stop Believing by kianspo
Evolution by rhaegal
Finding Home by mizzykitty
For I Have Been a Stranger in a Foreign Land by mortigi-tempo
Home by Lanaea
The Ivy Crown by ladyblahblah
Leave No Soul Behind by whochick
Like Ghosts by eldritchhorrors
A Little Left of Ordinary by Anonymous (may have been abandoned, hasn't been updated in a while anyway)
Nothing Lay Between by dancing_mercury (unfortunately not updated in a while)
Only Good for Legends by leupagus
Reverse Order by blcwriter
Secret Vulcan Mating Rituals by Chase820
Slings and Arrows by gone_ashore
Symptoms of Fatigue by JadeMac2442
Take Refuge in What You Know by Corpus Invictus
Through Thorns To The Stars by black_regalia and calicokat (unfortunately not updated in some months)
Two Kirks Are Better Than One by RuthR
Western Skies by anruiukimi

Supernatural

Agents of Fortune by Karasu Yurei
Bent by Rachel Martin (I live in hope but probably abandoned)
Dromoscope by Emily Brunson
Rain Falling Down by maychorian
Teufelshunde by july-july-july
Untitled Riderverse by cofax7
Wellspring by scourgeofeurope

White Collar

Untitled Kink Meme response by Anon

That were actually fewer than I thought, though I may have forgotten some.

Poll #2497 do you follow (m)any WIPs?

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How many WIPs do you follow?

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none
5 (12.8%)

none in principle, but there is that one special story I broke my no-WIPs rule for...
8 (20.5%)

a few (say less than ten)
16 (41.0%)

more than a few but not that many (say more than ten but less than 25)
4 (10.3%)

more than 25 but (probably) less than 100
2 (5.1%)

more than 100
0 (0.0%)

more than 200
0 (0.0%)

too many for me to keep track the number even approximately
2 (5.1%)

I have no idea how many, but not because the number is too large
2 (5.1%)

Comments

[casspeach]

Like some tv shows work great when you marathon them, others not so much

I have never met a tv show I couldn't marathon...I used to record Home and Away so me and my friend could watch it all in one go at the end of the week. I'm very bad at remembering to tune in every week for tv shows as well, and usually end up going 'huh, weren't we watching x...oh well, I'll get it on dvd'

The only thing I've watched regularly of late is Merlin, and I was late for a couple of those and had to watch them on iPlayer.

I take your point about feedback though, and that fits with when I used to post WIPs, and I'd get probably the same number of comments (particularly those of some meatiness) per chapter, as I do now for a whole story.

[ratcreature]

I often find it hard with long novels to feedback more than "I liked enjoyed it!", because it seems a bit ridiculous and disproportionate to just pick one thing to comment on, but I'm usually not taking notes while reading either (though actually sometimes I do to remember what to say later on but mostly not).

With short stories it is easy to at least say "I especially liked X" and with a chapter of a longer thing it's the same, and in the end then you'll have maybe a paragraph or even two worth of feedback for the whole thing.

Also with WIPs you can sort of chat with the author because they often give you an opening for conversation, for example with chapter cliffhangers you have an easy opening to for example speculate how things will go or how a character will get out of a situations, which gives the author a reaction, and is easy to do.

[casspeach]

Also with WIPs you can sort of chat with the author because they often give you an opening for conversation, for example with chapter cliffhangers you have an easy opening to for example speculate how things will go or how a character will get out of a situations, which gives the author a reaction, and is easy to do.

Heh, this is part of why I stopped posting WiPs. I would find myself second-guessing my plan for the next part, and thinking 'hmm, maybe that idea is better, or no, wait maybe that one that someone else suggested' and also the fact that I was aware of never finishing anything (which I think was tied in...I needed to keep my own strong idea of where I was heading, and when I started dithering my will to write died on the vine).

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I suppose it's only some authors who thrive on that kind of interaction. But for people who like this it can be fun -- for both readers and authors -- so it's more a YMMV case than WIPs being a worse experience than finished fic posting on principle.