Formatting Question for Loving Accusations · 10:27am Feb 16th, 2014
Edit: I've decided not to mess with the story after all, but I'll leave this blog post up anyway for posterity's sake.
I think the first chapter is too long. I think it would benefit if I cut it into two smaller chapters.
(Don't panic, let me make my case first.)
What I'd do is wait until I have the next part of the story finished and ready for posting; then, I would release two chapters at once. One would be the other half of the first chapter, cut down to size, and the other would be the next part of the story (the part that involves Rainbow). I'd leave an Authors Note at the start to inform people who don't read my blog to move ahead to the third chapter to get the next part of the story.
As my readers, what do you think of this idea? Would it annoy you to have shorter chapters? Do you think it would interfere with your enjoyment of the story?
I'm making no promises of cutting it up, I'm just really curious to hear what your thoughts are.
I myself prefer longer chapters over shorter ones as that doesn't break the flow... which becomes moot if you are like me and instead of reading everything on-site, you download it to an ebook reader which has literally no load times between chapters
So yeah, in this case I'd say to do what makes you happy, as it really doesn't matter (to me at least)
I simply prefer longer chapters but that's just my opinion. Do what you feel you should do.
Your first chapter flowed well, but it did seem to have a lot all packed in there.
Where would you break it? Between Pinkie and Applejack? Because that might make for a very sensible layout, with Pinkie introduced in the first, then AJ, then presumably Dash.
1841538 Yeah, in exactly that spot.
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I say go for it, then! Makes a lot of sense to me.
That's one nice thing about the fanfiction format... you can change midstream without it being that big of a deal.