I generally like: an interesting idea and well written. The interesting idea generally trumps the well written but not always.
However I always comment on my favourite fics. Sometimes I forget to kudos, but I want to comment on what I like about the story. I only get replies half the time though, so I'm not sure if authors even like comments anymore.
The one thing I can't stand is a wall of text. My eyesight is not good enough now, if it ever was. I recently marked for later 3 fics, but didn't kudos them. The author randomly changed paragraphs every 5 lines, whatever was happening. So you can imagine- different people were talking in each paragraph, the scenes kept changing in each paragraph, it was hard to follow at best.
I didn't want to offend the author though so I didn't say anything. I've advised an author before about this problem, but only because I knew them well, and luckily they were grateful and edited the fic, it looked so much better!
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However I always comment on my favourite fics. Sometimes I forget to kudos, but I want to comment on what I like about the story. I only get replies half the time though, so I'm not sure if authors even like comments anymore.
The one thing I can't stand is a wall of text. My eyesight is not good enough now, if it ever was. I recently marked for later 3 fics, but didn't kudos them. The author randomly changed paragraphs every 5 lines, whatever was happening. So you can imagine- different people were talking in each paragraph, the scenes kept changing in each paragraph, it was hard to follow at best.
I didn't want to offend the author though so I didn't say anything. I've advised an author before about this problem, but only because I knew them well, and luckily they were grateful and edited the fic, it looked so much better!