I *hated* it in the Stargate fandom if people would refer to Jack as "the older man" or "the old colonel" or even "the colonel." His name is JACK or O'NEILL!!
I was guilty of that occassionally when I first started. *sheepish* And I do know what you mean that everyone needs to start somewhere, and if it was just that it was someone's first story and they maybe didn't have the pacing down yet, or really good story telling style, that can maybe be forgiven and worked on. It's the ones where it seems like the people don't even have a 3rd grade reading/writing ability that I can't get past. And if they're archived on a site, not just their LJ, and you go look and see that they have like 10 other stories... Did no one ever say "You might need a beta?" or something? Ugh.
And I'm totally with you on the linking to chapters in LJ. I only have 1 series really going right now and each new chapter has a link to the ones before it. I haven't gone back to do the "Next Chapter" thing, but that's a good reminder. Thanks! :-)
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I was guilty of that occassionally when I first started. *sheepish* And I do know what you mean that everyone needs to start somewhere, and if it was just that it was someone's first story and they maybe didn't have the pacing down yet, or really good story telling style, that can maybe be forgiven and worked on. It's the ones where it seems like the people don't even have a 3rd grade reading/writing ability that I can't get past. And if they're archived on a site, not just their LJ, and you go look and see that they have like 10 other stories... Did no one ever say "You might need a beta?" or something? Ugh.
And I'm totally with you on the linking to chapters in LJ. I only have 1 series really going right now and each new chapter has a link to the ones before it. I haven't gone back to do the "Next Chapter" thing, but that's a good reminder. Thanks! :-)