Jun
6th
2016
Is my latest chapter good? · 5:28am Jun 6th, 2016
I have to ask since I didn't get much feedback for this chapter. Normally I don't want to 'whine' or something but I was really unsure of myself about this chapter and that's why it took so long to write. Now that it's been a while, I can't help but think that maybe I've lost some readers or this chapter really didn't have much of anything to comment on.
I wanted to know your opinion on it.
Don't worry. The next chapter will have the wizards and Celestia and Smaug bantering. I really miss just having them banter with each other in their natural forms. Maybe step back from the flirting and take it slow, but still romantic. Smaug's still gruff about the whole thing.
I'm afraid that at the moment I'm not reading much. Your stuff looks good and you've impressed me as a pretty decent person, so I'm looking forward to it, but I'm trying to end two stories while having JUST finished connecting the edges of my longterm fic, and I just got a huge ton of editing work dropped on me, so I haven't been able to read any of it, yet. Looks fun though. I was going to ping you about that one Protect Celly thread but I see that you're there. :)
... this is a useless post, sorry. ^^;;
While the story revolves primarily around Smaug and Celestia, I like that you're taking the time to expand the world... like Tolken would do. Heck, I'm only on the third chapter and he's written enough detail for a chapter or two FOR the background characters.
4002192 Oh, yeah, and speaking as someone who read LotR when I was 4, "what he said." Tolkien's work was HEAVY worldbuilding, halfway between a Moby Dick style write-a-chapter-on-random-aspects-of-whaling joint and a modern fantasy novel where someone (and I know this is something I fail at) forgot the whole "more than" part of the "know more than you show"
I liked it. That's it, really.
No news is good news. Generally, if there's copious amounts of praise, then it's a really good chapter. If it's the opposite, well, you know. You certainly don't need me to tell you that. However, when a particular chapter gets none of the above, then it falls into the "average" category.
That being said, I think average fits that chapter fairly well. Because it doesn't really go into anything that's happened with Celestia/smaug, the main protagonists of the story, there's not really much to comment on. It certainly wasn't a bad chapter, just that it felt almost like a filler would in a TV show. It builds background and explanation for future events, but there's no real prodding of the main plot of the story.
So yeah, there's nothing really to comment on. There are no errors, yet there's nothing that needs to be commented on. Therefore, less comments! I liked the chapter, and I certainly don't think you're loosing readers.