“Don’t give me that ‘you were lonely’ shit. I was lonely as well, and I had to raise our daughter for that time. I wasn’t the one that was trying to chase years that I couldn’t get back, and I certainly didn’t have my eye on anyone else, because I thought our marriage meant something!” She angrily threw the coffee cup into the ocean, then glared at him in full. “And what you
I really hate telegraphed, hand-holding stories. Not the ones that do it in the narrative, mind, but rather, those that do it in the freaking AUTHORS NOTES. Seriously, would it kill you to assume your audience is compromised of dain-bramaged idiots.
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What brought this up?
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A story on the site where the author is telling more of the story through the author's notes than through the story itself. And given the author's claims at being a long-time writer, he's making some embarrassing gaffes.
Can you give an example, or something comparable? I can't think of any stories I've read that suffer from this. Probably because those guilty of it were so bad or mediocre that they weren't worth remembering.
I've not seen any stories like that, not that I remember. However, I have seen stories where the author has to repeat stuff in the author's notes that were said in the story a few chapters ago, because the commenters were morons, and needed their hands to be held every step of the way.
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I myself prefer if authors do reminders of last chapter, or even last three at the beginning of the story, but only if the story takes more than month to update. I am reading hundreds of thousands words per day in stories and books, I am student and have to remember a lot of stuff, and there are stories with similarly named characters or places, similar ideas or worlds. I can get really confused from time to time. I do not like when authors recap whole chapters that way, or when it happens in weekly updating stories. But this thing is not a bad idea, it just have to be used properly.
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I see: a Chatoyance wannabe!
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Well, there is getting fed up with morons who want the story spoon-fed to them, but an author needs to maintain a degree of dignity!
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On my story Specimen 25467, I only received two dozen replies. Of these, half of them included utter obliviousness to the fact that I had killed 15 ponies inside a rattrap. I know I didn't make a big deal of the deaths in the story (a military commander pushed buttons, then saw bodies fly on long-range camera feeds), but the information wasn't precisely hidden, either.
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Now there's a name I'd happily avoid forevermore.
This has been another episode of "Grinds My Gears", brought to you by Shinzakura!
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"A bitching Sailor is a happy Sailor."
—US Navy proverb
2736007 Truer words were perhaps never spoken.
Sure fit me whenever I was on the ocean.
Well, the closest thing I've ever gotten to to, are author's comments is himself making comments on each part of the chapter as a reader, but I found any like you describe. Make sense, I don't bother reading bad stories, but I wouldn't hurt one or two recaps of long and extensive fics like your All American Girl, because it's easy to lose track of it
I think that was supposed to say "...would it kill you to assume your audience is not comprised of..."
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See? And this is why I know my audience aren't brain-dead idiots.