Depends what mood I'm in. I rarely, if *ever* read WIPs because I'm freaking sick and tired of getting in to a good long WIP only to have it dropped because the author runs in to IRL issues, dead muses or simply gets bored. But, I bookmark them in their own little folder and watch LJ notices for when they complete. Then I sit down and blow hours up hours and go without sleep for a day or so just to finish it. It's a hell of a lot nicer. I read the HP_100 fics too though. I like the little blurbs just fine. My favourite, of course, are one-shots. I don't care how long they are - anything over 1000 words keeps me happy, for the most part, but I've read one-shots that are over 10k, which is my own little form of ecstasy. Length... who gives a damn? I don't care if a chaptered fic has 10000000 chapters, of 100 words each, so long as the damn thing is completed. Any time I find a fic that I want to read, and it's chaptered, I always flip to the last chapter, scroll to the bottom and look for the happy words, "The End" before reading.
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Date: 2005-01-11 11:18 pm (UTC)But, I bookmark them in their own little folder and watch LJ notices for when they complete. Then I sit down and blow hours up hours and go without sleep for a day or so just to finish it.
It's a hell of a lot nicer.
I read the HP_100 fics too though. I like the little blurbs just fine. My favourite, of course, are one-shots. I don't care how long they are - anything over 1000 words keeps me happy, for the most part, but I've read one-shots that are over 10k, which is my own little form of ecstasy.
Length... who gives a damn? I don't care if a chaptered fic has 10000000 chapters, of 100 words each, so long as the damn thing is completed.
Any time I find a fic that I want to read, and it's chaptered, I always flip to the last chapter, scroll to the bottom and look for the happy words, "The End" before reading.