Talk:Work In Progress

Perspectives

Is the "Sadism" as "reason" supposed to be a joke or something? I've never heard an author say: "I post as wip because I enjoy my audience to suffer." If someone has, I think it should be linked as reference, if not, I think that should be deleted.--Ratcreature 19:47, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

I have never heard a writer say it, but I have heard readers hypothesize that it was the reason...Sherrold 22:59, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

I still think this just looks weird there, and that the fact that some readers don't care for WIPs is addressed in the reception section and fits better there than in the section that about reasons to post as WIP for authors, though maybe that could be expanded with more links to prop- and anti-WIP essays for reader reactions tothe practice.--Ratcreature 16:34, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I haven't had time to read thru and see if there is new/ useful perspectives here, but there was a lot of discussion by readers and writers about WIPs here: http://hp-fictalk.livejournal.com/13987.html. (coincidently re: mirror of maybe) --Alchemia (talk) 12:27, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

WIP Amnesty

I keep seeing WIP Amnesty floating around various places on Tumblr, and there's a community on AO3, and as a term/concept it seems to have come from Livejournal fandom? But I don't know enough about the history of the term to contribute much (and it might take me a while to dig into it, so I'd love to learn more if any other editors are more familiar or could). Does that seem like a good topic to add on this page, or should it (eventually?) be its own glossary page? -- Chanterelle (talk) 00:15, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

I found a community on livejournal dedicated to WIP Amnesty since the 2000s. wip_amnesty -- Ellakbhesse (talk) 13:17, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

I planned to add a quote about the term on the page. But I have no idea where to approach this in the article structure.

For anyone who doesn't know, wip_amnesty is all about letting go of never-going-to-be-finished stories. In the words of comm mod Madelyn: "post snippets or fragments or whatever you have of those stories that are just never going to do anything or be finished on your harddrive--the things you just sigh at and say, okay, YOU WIN. ALSO I DON'T LIKE YOU ANYMORE SO THERE, and such."

— Sinful Words (MontanaHarper)

-- Ellakbhesse (talk) 13:19, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for tracking this info down, Ellakbhesse! -- Chanterelle (talk) 23:58, 29 November 2021 (UTC)