Story Updates and Questions · 5:41pm Dec 21st, 2012
Sup guys.
I'm abusing/stress testing my main PC, so I'm typing this from my HTPC. Damn BSODs.
First thing is to those who read/favorited "The Proving Grounds", I do need to apologize for the grammatical botches in it. I rushed the proofreading portion and missed several errors I should have caught.
Chapter 8 of "What The Night Remembers" is partially completed thanks to some run over from Chapter 7. I guess that's one nice thing about keeping parts of a story under a certain size. Hopefully it will be up next week on Wednesday or Thursday. I am attempting to keep the updates consistent. I promise. Like was mentioned, each Chapter got an "excerpt" to add some visual spice and random relevance. I did this in another story and rather liked it. More or less, they have no baring on plot, but its just there as a nice addendum.
I have a few questions for those of you who are following my LunaJack story. I need some feedback on a few concerns I have.
The story itself is running much longer than I first anticipated. This is both good and bad I think. It's good because there seems to be much more depth to Applejack and Luna than I thought (funny what springs from a 1k swerve/joke piece) and there's a ton of personal satisfaction in each chapter/Interlude completed. The issue I worry about is burn out on the part of the reader. To address those concerns, I've tried to keep each Chapter under 3500 words while the target for the Interludes have been at about 2000 words. This has made for an easier time reading the story I think, but its forced me to change portions of the story I've had outlined and where certain events will and have happened. As far as quality, I don't believe it has compromised anything.
In addition, I've tried to keep the story moving with new twists and events without trying to pull things from my arse. The absolute best part of it for me has been Luna and AJ's dialogue, but this can only carry a story so far. More or less, I've liked the bits of insight that were added, the plot points that were developed and slow exploration of their relationship. The only thing I worry about is if folks reading the story are wanting me to get to the point. This is an unabashed LunaJack story, so I'm just curious if it's progressing at a pace folks like.
So three questions for you guys.
When reading, does the length of a chapter matter to you guys?
Does "What The Night Remembers" feel like it's droning on?
Is there anything you'd like to see in the story as far as development or pacing? Should it be quicker, slower? Anything you want to see explored?
Thanks in advance and take care all.
ONWARD!
I've only just started it, so I don't feel qualified to answer. I'm enjoying it so far though.