I read several WIPs, and several long stories, but the way I decided to
continue reading them was to read the first five chapters (if the summary
interested me first). Then, if the writer had me, I'd finish it. You'd never
be able to enforce a rule about commenting only on the first two chapters, but
maybe by suggesting it, it would do like you said, Ainae and encourage everyone
to read more of them. And if they read 2 or more chapters, they could probably
still write appropriate comments without slogging through 50 chapters too...
--- Ainaechoiriel <
mefaadmin@earthlink.net> wrote:
> See my recent post on it. I don't think we could or even would want to
> force readers to only read the first chapter or two. But it might encourage
> them to read if we said they didn't have to read more than the first chapter
> or two.
>
> --Ainaechoiriel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura [mailto:swordofomens@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 5:37 PM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Re: Post Mortem recap
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> Having just read Elanor's post, I changed my mind on issue Number 6.
> I agree with her. I think the entire WIP should be used to cast the vote
> (provided the voter is willing to read the WIP). She gives some reasons why,
> so I won't reiterate.
>
>
> > >> 6) WIPs: only the first few chapters considered
> >
> > I agree again with Ainae about this being a good idea but logistically
> > problematic. Maybe there could be a post about this
> and
> > then voters could go to the individual stories with this in mind?
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