Tell me the reasons why you drop a story.

[CarburetorThompson]

I’m a serial dropper. I’ll drop anything. I’ll even drop something I’m enjoying if there is too much of a satisfying conclusion before the actual end of the story. It’s not a good habit but a lot of stories fall apart at the end or just end on cliff hangers so I’m okay with it.

 

[Ymadthepirate]

I just wanted to make a book

 

[BlackKnightX]

I’m a serial dropper. I’ll drop anything. I’ll even drop something I’m enjoying if there is too much of a satisfying conclusion before the actual end of the story. It’s not a good habit but a lot of stories fall apart at the end or just end on cliff hangers so I’m okay with it.

Dude, we’re the complete opposite~

I just wanted to make a book

Start by making papers.

 

[BearlyAlive]

There's a high chance I drop something when it turns their main pairing from 1:1 to harem for no reason other than having a harem and sometimes even if there's a reason for it. I just don't like harem.

And I drop a story faster than a bullet if the author ignores basic grammar or doesn't use articles at all. I know this site is for hobbyists, but...

 

[PeacefulMyst]

- Too cold: this one’s hard to explain. It’s in the language and prose, I think. (Don’t be a camera; be a storyteller. Welcome me with a warm hug and some nice words—a kiss or two is always welcome, if you’re a chick. then, tell me a story.)

Damn i realized i actually do that. Ill edit my chaps later.

This is a great thread

 

[EternalSunset0]

Bad spacing and formatting. Bad grammar. Besides that, I don't think there are any major issues that make me drop something.

I can't really elaborate, but I guess if the story just doesn't click with me. Or if I can't visualize things enough or there's too little action or plot progression.

 

[Toripuru-S]

(It'll probably make me sound dumb or biased considering how many stories are like this )

But *sometimes* a really high chapter (several hundred+) count can be enough to stop me from picking up a story at all. With that said, if there are clear stopping points like "Volume" or "Book 1" or just anything with the chapter titles that identify where arcs begin/end, I don't hold that against any author . I just don't like getting the impression that a story might be dragging it's feet.

Bad spacing and formatting. Bad grammar. Besides that, I don't think there are any major issues that make me drop something.

I can't really elaborate, but I guess if the story just doesn't click with me. Or if I can't visualize things enough or there's too little action or plot progression.

"Bad spacing and formatting. Bad grammar."

It took me a long time to figure out I was (and may still be) guilty of doing that exact thing ! I'm doing my best to improve though, after someone was nice enough to provide me an honest critique

 

[EternalSunset0]

"Bad spacing and formatting. Bad grammar."

It took me a long time to figure out I was (and may still be) guilty of doing that exact thing ! I'm doing my best to improve though, after someone was nice enough to provide me an honest critique

Oh

What I mean is typing like:

"It took me a long time to figure out I was(and may still be)guilty!



I'm doing my best to improve though,after someone was....



Someone was nice enough"

Seems exaggerated but I've read a couple of stuff like that. It's not that I automatically hate the story or anything but it's hard to read stuff that's not spaced/formatted well enough.

Don't worry. I glanced through your story and you're not like that. Illustrations are super nice, too. Makes me want to read it some time.

 

[Toripuru-S]

Oh

What I mean is typing like:

"It took me a long time to figure out I was(and may still be)guilty!



I'm doing my best to improve though,after someone was....



Someone was nice enough"

Seems exaggerated but I've read a couple of stuff like that. It's not that I automatically hate the story or anything but it's hard to read stuff that's not spaced/formatted well enough.

Don't worry. I glanced through your story and you're not like that. Illustrations are super nice, too. Makes me want to read it some time.

I'm glad you like the illustrations , I can't take credit for the art, but I do pass along any positive comments back to the artist(s)

(Royal Four-Ces is what I was alluding to . Only a few chapters have been cleaned up so far , but that's the one I'm currently reformatting + adding EVEN MOAR art to)

And I do agree with you. Some of it can be forgiven, but if a story is hard to read because of technical problems, that will turn off people that care about that. Presentation is important.

 

[BlackKnightX]

There's a high chance I drop something when it turns their main pairing from 1:1 to harem for no reason other than having a harem and sometimes even if there's a reason for it. I just don't like harem.

I like harem, but I can totally relate to you on this one.

I remember reading “Very Pure and Ambiguous: The Prequel”. It starts off great. The mc and the love of his life finally gets together after his rebirth, and they look very cute together. But then all of a sudden, the author introduces other girls as potential harem members—it’s quite obvious at that point—and even has the main love interest express a desire for the mc to have more than one girl for some reason.

It just feels too forced. I know there’s a harem tag, and I’m all for that, but the author just makes the relationship with the main girl so strong at the beginning and then suddenly introduces other girls in a contrived way. That’s why I dropped it.

 

[KittraMcBriar]

When it becomes clear that several characters are thinly-veiled caricatures of people/types of people the author doesn’t like.

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

1) The MC falls past the moral event horizon. If they start stalking and killing their antagonists, or start killing challengers (even just bandits) they could effortlessly restrain, then I can never like or empathize with that character again. This is the most common reason I drop a story.
2) Dire lack of comic relief. Sometimes even if I like the premise and characters, the grueling slog of misfortune and loss is so constant that reading feels like digging a hole through my arm with a pencil.
3) Unintelligible. While extremely rare, sometimes the writing (or translation maybe) is so disorganized that I just can't make heads or tails of it. When this happens I drop before I finish the first chapter.
4) Extremely long story with interrupted schedule. If a story is hundreds of chapters long, but then goes on hiatus for several months or more before resuming, it can be extremely hard to figure out where I left off or even remember most of the characters' names. This is somewhat frequent, and I haven't really dropped them since I do intend to re-read them from the beginning, but they are indefinitely postponed for now.

 

[Imahermit]

When it makes no sense and is of horrible quality.

There's a high chance I drop something when it turns their main pairing from 1:1 to harem for no reason other than having a harem and sometimes even if there's a reason for it. I just don't like harem.

And I drop a story faster than a bullet if the author ignores basic grammar or doesn't use articles at all. I know this site is for hobbyists, but...

I write as a hobby and I use articles, how do people forget to use those? They're so simple to implement and use...

 

[Deleted member 57675]

- Not genre of interest. Not interest or busy.
-Bad grammar -not just few typos, but unreadable
-Lost attention. Happens even on good stories.
-Justifying what character does when its super bad and forced - assault, killing, enslaved etc.
- Unbelievable. Don't have be realistic, but if it makes one loose braincells by character/plot...
-Uncomfortable politics/racism drips into story.

 

[gaylolis]

i dropped the story because i found something more interesting to spend my time.

 

[BlackKnightX]

i dropped the story because i found something more interesting to spend my time.

And then you come back again later, I suppose?

 

[gaylolis]

And then you come back again later, I suppose?

hopefully the story will be finished by then :D

or at least several more meaningful chapters, not just fillers.