Oct
15th
2014
Do you want it now or later? · 3:41am Oct 15th, 2014
Right, so, I've been writing up the next chapter for Consequences of Unoriginality and it's been pointed out to me that it's gotten a bit... hefty.
... like ~15,000 words hefty.
And I just got to the date proper.
So, um, yeah... would y'all like me to get this posted up with the actual date in the next chapter or should I finish up with the date in this chapter?
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Also, huge thanks to PandoraBoxable for the cover-art for the story! Apparently something even cooler is in the works, mad props ;-;
Eh, give us the chapter now. The date probably deserves its own chapter anyway.
Whichever works best for you, I'd say.
... Though a new chapter would be nice.
Split. 15K words is a bit much for a single chapter. The date gets its own chapter and I think it is better for both you and us to release smaller manageable pieces versus 20% of the story in one go. :)
Date should be its own chapter. And we can sate our cravings a bit earlier
Yeah, I agree that you should give the date its own chapter.
Unless you think it'll hurt the flow, split it up and put them in different time out corners.
Later. Don't want the chapter to end on a cliffhanger. And for this story? I could easily blow through 15,000+ words. So adding more would only be a good thing.
I think it’s unanimous: shift the date to the next chapter.
I usually only have a little bit of time to read (on the bus to work and on break), so it would be easier for people like me to read it if it were two shorter chapters.
Cut it into ~5000 chunks and polish each off to be better.
Or not, whatever. SS&E got away with 45k regularly.
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20%? Closer to 2%. Andoriol has a LOT planned for this story.
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There is a natural break point which isn't a cliffhanger not using it just means a slightly longer wait while upwards of 25k words (just my personal guess-timate) are polished for the current chapter through the date.
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15k words being 20% of the story...
Sorry, that makes me giggle.
And Aburi's being generous. I have a "bad" habit of writing until I'm done and have chapters balloon on me horribly.
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Not a cliffhanger! At least not this time
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A chapter under 10k words? BLASPHEMY!
More seriously, I've got most of it done and I'm in the polishing phase right now for most of it, just letting my pre-reader and editor give it another go-over after the most recent round of edits as I add stuff/clean up.
15K is plenty and going too much over that can be daunting to try and read in one sitting. It takes me a while to read so I'd really have to plan a longer period of time uninterrupted to read anything too large.
Honestly, I can't read a 2k chapter in one sitting due to life. I have to read a few words here, few sentences there... While typing this, I am tending breakfast before rousing the kids for daycare and heading off to work. Either way works, though I am anxious to see if he gets his ear reattached.
A lot of good point have been raised on reasons for splitting chapters, so I'm just going to mention the two that got missed.
In splitting chapters you get less down time between readings which means less time for those small details to fade... like foreshadowing. The larger the chapter you send your editor the more intimidating and daunting it is for them... very stressful seeing a sudden 30-40k chapter in your box to pick through word by word, all the while knowing there are a bunch of readers waiting on your sorry ass and the pressure keeps building and building until you just wan—
I need a smoke... and a drink.
Do it do it now
I would like the chapter to be split. This is one of my favorite stories on this site, so any chance to read more sooner I'll take.