I'm curious as to which story you are speaking.
Posting a fic like this is extremely brave, given the current environment on this board. (An environment that has made it a place that I personally am far less inclined to visit.)
I'm also curious about this. Do you find the boards hostile? I know folks have not been happy that my current story does not have an alive and well Lois in it, but I really haven't felt hostiliy, per se. Just curious as to your feelings about the environment since you've been on here for a very long time.
I for one will read any well written story. My biggest reason for
not reading a story does not involve a character being dead. My biggest reason is that when the writer has so little respect for the readers that they can't even bother to try to double check things like... oh, punctuation. I don't mean minor things. I mean when the punctuation and grammar is so bad that it's like torture trying to read it. I think anyone writing a story with an line like for example /He is going to the store. / that they should have enough good sense to know that /he is goin to te stor / is not correct. I've decided that there are too many other good stories for me to waste my time. If I start reading a story and the first few paragraphs have
multiple such examples, I stop reading it. Deathfic or not - if the writer takes the
real time to write a story then I will endeavor to read it. Of course, time restraints prevent me from reading them all.
Anyway, you are right. I think readers have guts to post a deathfic and if they can give me their time to give me a story that they have bothered to edit then I will try my utmost to read it.
I do like knowing what I'm getting into though. I just read a story that I really liked but I
thought it was mostly comedy - then WHAM! - death right out of the blue without
any warnings.
Bravo for your post!
