Author's notes can be quite revealing. I've scurried away from the following (to name a few): -Comments about how they dashed off the chapter this morning and just *had* to get it posted -Blatant requests for suggestions with the plot -Pages of review responses at the beginning of the chapter on aff.net.... it makes me hardly ever review on aff.net - it feels like I'm contributing to the litter at the top of the chapter (though admittedly there's not all that many fics I read there)
I nearly fell off my chair laughing at your comment about the rec. I had the exact same experience about a month ago.... an embarrassing 22 chapters later I was entirely pissed to find that I'd read the whole damn thing. I went to bed at stupid o'clock, accidentally woke up my DH, and had a long conversation with him about 'why am I reading bad fic?'
'Cheese' as a category would be insulting to actual cheese. Perhaps 'brain candy'?
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-Comments about how they dashed off the chapter this morning and just *had* to get it posted
-Blatant requests for suggestions with the plot
-Pages of review responses at the beginning of the chapter on aff.net.... it makes me hardly ever review on aff.net - it feels like I'm contributing to the litter at the top of the chapter (though admittedly there's not all that many fics I read there)
I nearly fell off my chair laughing at your comment about the rec. I had the exact same experience about a month ago.... an embarrassing 22 chapters later I was entirely pissed to find that I'd read the whole damn thing. I went to bed at stupid o'clock, accidentally woke up my DH, and had a long conversation with him about 'why am I reading bad fic?'
'Cheese' as a category would be insulting to actual cheese. Perhaps 'brain candy'?