If you are an author you might recognize me as the one pestering you with the request of recapping. I mean, if you don’t update frequently and more than, say, every two weeks, elapsed from your last update, then the reader might have a problem reconnecting with the story. In fact. when I read apologies for the slow updating I would scream “ don’t apologize, you are a volunteer and you have the right to be slow. Add a recap, instead!
I just don’t get it. Is it because authors think that their story is the only one being read? It would be a very wrong (and arrogant) assumption. I think that there are about 50 stories or more, between ff net and Twilighted that I am happily (or unhappily) following. And memory is what it is. If one has forgotten - but for a general idea about the plot - what went on in the last chapters, one could be so discouraged as to let the story go. I have done it – albeit, if I had favorited the story there must have been a reason.
When I ask for recaps some authors are very pissed off. Either they don’t bother to answer, or they tell me to go back and re-read (Not always possible with very long stories, albeit I have done it, so desperate I was), or they suggest that I wait for the story to end. Not very friendly on their part, I would say.
Some of them told me it was a good idea and now they are recapping. I LOVE YOU, DEARS. It so helps to enjoy a story.
Personally, I update with a weekly frequency, minimum. Otherwise, of course I would recap. Why so many others don’t? And you, campers, do you all have a stellar memory, even if you are following a big number of stories?