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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
I think that there's a huge market for it among those who're used to reading WIP's (Works in Progress) in fan fiction. In that arena, there seems to be a high tolerance for bad spelling, bad grammar, Out Of Character portrayals, plot holes, and endless drama.
As well as a huge willingness to start a story that may never, ever get finished because the author didn't get enough praise with their first efforts to stay interested in their own work, so they start five or six more.
I don't get it, and I don't care for it, but it seems to be pretty entrenched. I just hate to see it spread.
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Sure, you see this on fanfiction.net, etc. but as Quoth rightly points out, that's free. There's a vast difference between WIPs and readable fiction when you're
paying for it! And not "only" paying, but paying a huge amount more than you would for an equivalent book (length-wise).
I am
ABSOLUTELY NOT going to pay for the privilege of being someone's instructor, beta reader and proofreader. That's...that's an
obscene idea. Pay for the privilege of reading incomplete, unready work? Not in this girl's lifetime. It's hard enough to do it when being paid!
Hitch