Well, no, it's not really an Author's Note. Actually, I guess it kind of is, but all my chapters are kind of A/Ns, except the first one. But don't you just hate when a story suddenly has an A/N where a chapter should be? Or, even worse, when you really love a story and you're super excited about the newest chapter, so you click on the link in your email without looking at the title. Your computer finally finishes loading… only to find no new chapter, no new story, and all your hopes are dashed. In its place, just a lousy Author's Note.

This is a very sad truth in the world of Fanfiction. I can't even tell you how many stories this has happened to. But the worst scenario of all, I think, is when you're reading a really good story that is marked as "Complete" and you get to the last chapter, wondering how it could possibly end in the middle of such an important part, and are faced with a long A/N explaining how the Author "just doesn't feel the inspiration" or "is too busy" to continue the story.

I can't actually say that this is a horrible thing that should be avoided at all costs (though it should), because sometimes real life does get in the way and whether we like it or not, we won't get anywhere by reading Fanfiction all day. So, conclusions: Please don't write A/Ns as chapters. Or, if you really must, delete them when you post a new chapter so that future readers won't be interrupted by non-story.

Unfortunately, there isn't really a clear "right" or "wrong" in this one, because although we can all agree that A/Ns as chapters are annoying, no one really knows what to do about it except just leave all the readers wondering what happened to make the Author disappear off the face of the Earth.

So now that you've read an entire chapter with no story, I think you can agree that A/Ns are annoying. And, to emphasize my point, I won't add a story onto this, like I was originally planning.

IDEA! This can be two lessons at once! Don't say things like "Please review! I won't update until I get ten reviews! Please! I worked really really hard on this and will hate you if you don't review!"

It doesn't work. I have noticed that Authors who write " Oh my gosh, thank you so much for all the stunning reviews I got, I was totally not expecting that many!" always get many more reviews after writing it than those that threaten for reviews.

Thanks so much for reading this whole freaking thing (if you did) and I hope you agree with me!