I don't post WIPs, because I would totes magotes lose my motivation if I did. I am constantly revising.

My biggest issue right now is that there are two chapters that still need tweaking to fit the novel structure--I completed them when I thought I was writing a novella.

There's a person on ff.net reading my latest Avengers story and reviewing each chapter as she goes. She just said "It's midnight and I can't stop reading!" She's up to chapter 8 of the current 18. I think I want to have her little fic-babies.

The people on ff.net are so much better about reviewing than Ao3. They just punch the kudos button and move on.

I like the kudos button, and greet kudos with the same joy as comments.

But I also do a lot of my reading on a phone.

I find it interesting on AO3 that the people who leave comments often don't leave kudos. I think they all see comments as better, which is fine by me. I like comments, especially when a story hits someone's buttons perfectly and then I can squee back at them. But I like kudos just as much. It at least gives me a good idea of what kind of stories people like and also if my writing is more effective. I've noticed as I've put more stories up, that I'm getting a higher rate of kudos to overall views and that makes me very happy. I'm improving!

Kudos are a consolation prize. I like discussion and conversation. I'm interested in which buttons got pushed, what worked, what didn't. This writer works for tips--throw a dollar in the comment box on your way out. Kudos are a dime or a quarter at best.

Yeah, but I'm not going to have a conversation in the comments, y'know? Throws off the ratio, and seems like a weird place to have it. I like discussion and conversation, but... honestly, not on AO3, and I'm actually, by the time I'm done with something, sick of talking about it.

Kudos are AWESOME! I don't have to reply to them! I can do sort of general trend metrics! I can tell when a bunch of people are getting into an obscure fandom based on sudden surges in Yuletide!

I think you're also, if you're into that, going to see more of what worked/didn't work, on any bookmarks of your story where the bookmarker has added commentary, because that's their space so they don't feel as hampered. Which I like, personally, because if I don't want to see it, I don't have to!

I used to check and see what people had bookmarked of mine, and what tags they used, back in the Delicious era, but I just kind of don't want to know now. It's out there, it's out there. Released into the wild and unchanging, hopefully having gone through a beta so I've already had the works/doesn't work discussion.

But... I also write mostly for me now, outside of Yuletide. I mean, even the Stupid Huge Enormous Thing that's technically for Victoria is something I am writing because I want it. (Sometimes, Yuletide intersects nicely with what I want, especially in fandoms where I think I've got one story in me and I'm done, like Broadchurch, or where my id wants it and I've just been too lazy to write it, like Don't Trust the B* in Apt. 23 and The IT Crowd. Other times, not so much.)

Sometimes I want to share with the class (honestly, there's a HUGE part of me that wants to share the current drawerfic with the class because there are parts I really really like, but it's not just Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, it's Decomposing Dove: Do Not Go Near, and no matter how many notes, disclaimers, and warnings I would stick on it, I'm pretty sure I'd get a lot of shit for even thinking about it, let alone writing several thousand words of it, because it's worse than the one thing that had people here saying, "JESUS, DO NOT DO THAT AGAIN!"), and sometimes not so much (some things are just embarrassing, okay?), but the actual writing and working is for me.

Generous poster is taking exception to a minor character quirk that popped up as a comic grace note, and she's protesting my idea of how Fox News would react to the announcement that Hydra had reappeared. She thinks Fox would be all on board with exposing Hydra and that CNN would be trying to hide it behind "calls for reason" etc. Not so much wanting to have her fic babies any more.

Bah. Comma vomit up there.

I mean, I hang on FFA, and the comments vs. kudos thing is discussed all the time there, so I have a fairly good idea as to the motivations of a lot of people who are leaving kudos, and it's usually positive. I'd say that the people leaving them because they feel the story was good enough for a kudos, not good enough for a comment, or just indicating "I read the thing!" (this is a concern I've seen brought up a lot there), is a pretty small percentage of kudosers.

They're different, but I don't see them as cheaper, just different. (And, honestly, I rarely leave comments unless I'm on a re-read and I'm informed I've already left kudos. If I am reading something that often, I should probably mention it.)

My motivations are all over the place: I leave kudos on really well-written stories; sometimes ones that are not so well-written, SPAG all over the place, but very well plotted and great characterization; stories that are just plain fun to read and fly past and make you forget the time.

I tend to leave comments on stories that either totally blow me away (and I'll also give them kudos, I never only comment) or I know the author from other online interactions, even if it's a story I wouldn't have normally commented on.

I will occasionally spurn leaving kudos for an otherwise well-written story if I feel the author is a real schmuck from other online interactions. Yeah, it's like borrowing a book from a friend so the author doesn't get the royalties. Neener.

And maybe one other thing will prompt me to forgo the kudo (but then I'll just quit reading their stories anyway out of boredom): when every single story is a rehash of the same damn episode of a TV show or the same movie, continually trying to fix that one thing they think is wrong about it (which is usually their OTP gets shot down by canon--can we say Johnlock and Spock/Uhura?) While I may write in a fandom of a single movie (and have an OTP, an OT3 and a spare TP floating around, just like the stock market, the payoff is bigger if you diversify), all my stories change it up considerably in many ways. Even though I ship Sherlock/John, the only story I've written in the Sherlock fandom was Sherlock/Irene/Molly/Janine. So there, Johnlock conspiracy theorists.

And maybe one other thing will prompt me to forgo the kudo (but then I'll just quit reading their stories anyway out of boredom): when every single story is a rehash of the same damn episode of a TV show or the same movie, continually trying to fix that one thing they think is wrong about it (which is usually their OTP gets shot down by canon--can we say Johnlock and Spock/Uhura?) While I may write in a fandom of a single movie (and have an OTP, an OT3 and a spare TP floating around, just like the stock market, the payoff is bigger if you diversify), all my stories change it up considerably in many ways. Even though I ship Sherlock/John, the only story I've written in the Sherlock fandom was Sherlock/Irene/Molly/Janine. So there, Johnlock conspiracy theorists.

Heh. Yeah. A lot of strong OTP stuff does that. Drives me nuts.

I'm totally Ship All the Things in most of my fandoms, or at least Ship Most Permutations of the Things.

I think I have, like, two fandoms where I have a strong shipping preference, but even in those, I'll still ship occasional side pairings.