I've actually fallen back on "choose not to warn" in a number of cases, since I really couldn't figure out if the story deserved a death warning or not. Usually I warn all over the place for anything I think might be an issue, but in most of these cases, it's not that I don't want to warn, it's that I don't want to mislead readers by warning for the wrong thing. I'd hate to scare people off with a death warning when the whole story is actually about the character hanging out with their friends in the afterlife, for example, but technically it is a deathfic ...
The Clue ending ... ha, that made me grin. :D Yeah, it's kind of funny how readers begging for a particular outcome just makes you not want to do it. I miss writing WIPs! If I stick with this Highlander story I'm working on, I might post it to AO3 as my inaugural WIP at that site. It's been a long time since I've posted anything in installments -- several years, I think.
Have you heard about the April Showers Challenge on AO3? They're trying to get people to upload their personal slice of fandom history, backdated to when it was originally put online/printed offline and tagged "April Showers Challenge". April 1 was supposed to be focused on Star Wars, but I've not heard fandoms for the days since (and it was open to all fandoms anyway).
Oh, is that what the April Showers thing is all about? I'd sort of vaguely heard of it. I guess that is exactly what I did this weekend, except without tagging for it. (I was uploading fic going all the way back to 2000 -- or maybe that should be "all" the way, since it's not actually that long ago, but it's a geological age in Internet time!)
One of the reasons why I've been dragging my feet on doing this is that, frankly, a lot of my old fic (like everyone else's old fic) is not very good! But obviously people liked it at the time -- I got kind reviews and such. It was actually very interesting going through my old archive and seeing how much my writing style has changed.
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The Clue ending ... ha, that made me grin. :D Yeah, it's kind of funny how readers begging for a particular outcome just makes you not want to do it. I miss writing WIPs! If I stick with this Highlander story I'm working on, I might post it to AO3 as my inaugural WIP at that site. It's been a long time since I've posted anything in installments -- several years, I think.
Have you heard about the April Showers Challenge on AO3? They're trying to get people to upload their personal slice of fandom history, backdated to when it was originally put online/printed offline and tagged "April Showers Challenge". April 1 was supposed to be focused on Star Wars, but I've not heard fandoms for the days since (and it was open to all fandoms anyway).
Oh, is that what the April Showers thing is all about? I'd sort of vaguely heard of it. I guess that is exactly what I did this weekend, except without tagging for it. (I was uploading fic going all the way back to 2000 -- or maybe that should be "all" the way, since it's not actually that long ago, but it's a geological age in Internet time!)
One of the reasons why I've been dragging my feet on doing this is that, frankly, a lot of my old fic (like everyone else's old fic) is not very good! But obviously people liked it at the time -- I got kind reviews and such. It was actually very interesting going through my old archive and seeing how much my writing style has changed.