De Brevitate Meorum Capitulorum/Concerning the Shortness of My Chapters · 7:29pm May 17th, 2014
Salvete, lectores mei. Hoc bloggum facio ut modo Subjunctive capitulum novum paene perfectum esse dicam. Erit brevium (inter verba millia aut dua), sed habere capitulum secundum ad vos cum celeritate hoc capitulo quodam volo. Est aestas, etsi mihi occupatio aestatis est, scribere quantitatem magnam operis meis possum. Posse complere hanc fabulam ante finem aestatis cogito.
Fortasse interrogatis cur capitula mea singulariter brevia sint. Sunt rationes nonnullae. Cogito generaliter fabulas quae capitula brevia habeant faciliores legendo esse; capitula per se sunt consistendo pro legendo scribendoque loci innati. Insuper, propter seriem naturam fabularum mearum, facilior mihi et ita lectoribus meis magis placet est scribere vulgareque saepius capitula brevia; proinde capitula plura do recepioque frequentius attentionem ab additione capitulorum novorum.
Sed est ratio alia. Modus operandi meus est scribere magna quisquiliarum tunc dare ad editorem meum ut dicat quid bonum sit foedumque. Capitulum crudum ante editorem meum paene quisqulias habet paucaque bonorum. Thematibus saepe pecco, sententiae meae nimis longae sunt alogaeque, personae dramatis imparia faciunt, etc. Editor meus egoque faeces verborum secamus ac cremum consequitur. Sic longus est modus scribendi.
In summa, capitulum posterum mox ibit. Gratias vobis pro legendo ago.
Vale
On the shortness of my chapters,
Hello, my readers. I’m making this blog post to say that the next chapter of Subjunctive is almost done. It will be short (between a thousand to two thousand words), but I hope to have the chapter after that to you quickly. It’s summer, and though I have a summer job, I find that I can still get a lot of writing done on this story. I think I can complete this story before the end of summer.
You might be asking why my chapters are so short. There are a few reasons. I think in general that novels that have short chapters are easier to read for the reason that chapters in themselves give natural stopping points both for reading and writing. In addition, due to the serial nature of my novel, it’s both easier for me to write and publish more frequently short chapters and thus get more attention from the frequent updates, and it pleases my readers.
But there is another reason. My modus operandi is to write a good amount of garbage and then give it to my editor so he can tell me what is good and what is shit. The rough draft of a chapter before I give it to my editor has a lot of a garbage and very little good: I often screw up the themes, my sentences go on too long and often make no sense, my characters sometimes act in odd and inconsistent ways, etc. So my editor and I cut away the dregs of the words and the cream subsequently rises. Such is the long method of writing.
In summary, the next chapter will be here soon. Thank you for reading.
Goodbye
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Glad to have an explanation. How does one obtain one of these mystic beasts, the "edi-tor" ever elusive? It sounds like a partner but not quite, more like a navigator riding shotgun.
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Difficile dictu. Meum recepi cum me interrogavit conrigere fabulam eius velim. Sibi grammaticam fabula prima pro Equestria Daily didicieram, proinde juvare volui (et editorem requirebam). In principio bonus grammatica corrigendque non fuit, sed eum didici ac didecit mihi. Nihilominus saepe eum sapentia mea grammaticae irritabam (inquit esse “pedantic”; inquii “consistent”), sed se in editores bonos faciamus ac nunc editorem amicumque majorem habeo.
Consilium meum tibi est discere te directorio explicationis de grammatica. Utor The Chicago Manual of Style; est Vulgata mea. Circumspice et disce! Scio classes in FimFic qui tibi circumspecendo editorem juvent esse.
Difficult to say. I got mine when he asked me if I wanted to edit his story. I'd taught myself grammar through my first story for Equestria Daily, so I wanted to help (and I needed an editor). In the beginning he wasn't good at grammar and proofreading, but I taught him and he me. In any case, I often irritated him with my knowledge (he said it was "pedantic"; I said "consistent"), but we made each other into good editors, and now I have a good editor and even better friend.
My advice to you is to lean about grammar using a style guide. I use The Chicago Manual of Style; it's my bible. Look around and learn! I know that there are groups on FimFic who will help you look for an editor.