Why did I bring this subject up? Well, the reason is that I hate bad summaries. Okay, okay, I suck with summaries myself too, but I really hate summaries that don't give me anything. If you read a summary which won't give you any hints about the story, which won't 'sell' the story to you, will you read the story? Some may, I probably won't...

Summaries are the way to advertise your stories. They have to be short, but still interesting piece of works that blow your mind.

What do you think when you read a good summary? This could be one thought: 'Oh wow! This story must be good!' Summaries are the first things you see / read when you'll find a new story that you haven't read yet. You read the summary, and then you will decide if you want to read the whole story or not.

If you don't write good summaries, maybe you should let someone else read the story before publishing and let him/her write a summary that sells the story better.

I know some people that really don't understand the meaning of the summary. 'Why should I write some stupid summary? You read the whole f**king story, not some short piece of s**t.' That actually came from mouth of some guy I know when he wrote a story for school.

Do you really wanna read a story if the author has that kind of 'So What?' attitude? Do you give a s**t if the author won't either?

I'm not trying to push anyone to write better summaries or something like that. The main focus should be the story itself, but the summary is the reason we read those stories. If the summary isn't interesting, most of us probably just ignore them.

This has happened many times to me. I have read many bad summaries and just skipped the stories, and later someone has send fic searches on discussion groups asking some stories. And I have thought: 'Ooh, that sounds interesting. Why haven't I read that before?' And when someone sends back the answer for the search, I check the story. And then I get my own answer: 'Hmmm... I think I've read the summary before, haven't read the story though...' This happened to YOU?

You should also give some interesting titles for the stories. I admit again that I suck with story titles too. Titles are the other way to advertise your story. If you have too traditional / conventional / boring / ordinary / common etc. title, and if there are also many stories with the same title, can you remember the story later? Or you may remember the story, but not the author or the place you read it for the first place.

If you'll give a very exceptional / interesting / unconventional / exciting etc. title, it is much more easier to find it from the Net if you don't remember the story location or whose story it was.

Do you have any ideas about this subject?

That's true. If there isn't any summary tot eh story, I will just skip it. It needs to give something, a little thing away or at least a hint to soemthing that will catch my attention. :P