summaries

[sixbeforelunch]

So here's a question I've often wondered about. What makes for a good fic summary? Is there anything that can get you to click when you might otherwise not have been inclined to?

Conversely, what types of summaries do you like least? Are there summaries that will make you skip a work even if it's tagged with all of your favorite ships and tropes?

Comments

[coyoteclaw11]

an effective summary should be like a joke set up so the reader will click to get the punch line

Oooh that is a good way of saying it. I like these kinds of summaries a lot! I did once come across a story that was sort of the opposite. The title was actually a "punchline" but you didn't know it until you reached the end. It was rly cool (even tho that isn't rly relevant to summaries or drawing your readers in in the first place dfghj)