Blogging? About Fanfiction? This rabbit hole goes deeper than I thought... · 6:17am May 6th, 2012
Well, I just thought I'd throw out a blog post here for two reasons. First, setting up dialog with my readers is something really important to me. Second, I just noticed that I have 27 people following me, so there will actually be people to read this.
I just released the third part of Make a Wish, but I'm going to wait until I finish part four before submitting it to EQD for an update. It falls a bit short of their recommended 3k word minimum for updates, and I'm already part way done with Part Four anyway. I actually had to cut a lot off of the end of Part Three for pacing reasons. I've been trying to increase the length of my chapters, but all that resulted in was the chapter continuing on long after the obvious break point. Better to keep things short and coherent than longer and rambling. I'm still learning, here. This is only my second fic ever after all, and I'm a bit blindsided by its success. You can read what I had of the first one, if you really want. It's still here on the site. I just didn't realize when I wrote it that I was writing myself into one of the most overused fanfic cliches ever, and once I realized that, I stopped writing it and came up with Make a Wish. It mostly stand as a testament as to the jump in my competence as a writer (I won't say skill, as I still can't shake the feeling that I might still be bad at this, but just really lucky).
In any case, feel free to drop me a line either in the comments here or in a PM if you have any questions about me or my stories. I'll almost always respond to those, but don't expect any sort of consistent blog posts. I'm not entirely sure how ofter I'll be making these.
Signing off,
Perpetual Lurker