Forgetting tags for a moment: if you are already searching in your fandoms/pairings/favourite tags, what in a summary will cause you to click it over any other story?
Forgetting tags for a moment: if you are already searching in your fandoms/pairings/favourite tags, what in a summary will cause you to click it over any other story?
Same here. There’s a lot I know doesn’t work for me. I don’t like summaries that end with a question, because usually the question isn’t interesting. Or there isn’t enough said for me to guess the answer will be subverted, so it puts me off. I hate summaries that end with questions.
Lapslock is all aesthetic. Which means anyone with dyslexia or the like will be unable to read it. I don’t like lapslock either, but I refuse to even try to push through the dislike, because it’s mean to be so exclusionary with your work. I’ll take it if it is an occasional line. If it is written in an image. That is fine. Not the whole prose. It is very frustrating.
I also notice that if it is a shipping story, I want the summary to tell me something they are doing. Not just “A loves B” or something like that. Although I’m also good if the summary is an excerpt of the story for short one shots.
But I have such a hard time pinning down a specific thing I liked, instead of what I didn’t like, I was hoping someone else would have an answer. XD
It appears that in your attempt to see if someone else had an answer, you’ve instead stumbled upon a common confusion x’D
While it’s not exactly showing my taste in summary, I noticed that for the summaries I write I generally give enough information in the summary to know who the fic is about without reading the relationships/characters tags. But that’s clearly made easier by the fact that I mostly write short one shots so it’s rare to have lots of important characters.