Nov
10th
2017
I sense a big, big problem · 7:14am Nov 10th, 2017
I am over 100,000 words in on the story and I am just now reaching the point where the team is going to be introduced. Like, everything so far is all about getting our two protags from point A to point B. 
I honestly estimated that this part of the story would be about 50,000 words at the most. Nope. Tortoise-Tuga to Istanbull has been about 100,000 words. And this is why I suck as a writer. The introduction to the story ends up being a novel unto itself.
We are only now reaching the point where the supporting protags will be joining the party, and the epic adventure begins. I don't know what to say for myself, other than I am very sorry.
No need to apologize! Your writing moves at a slow pace, there's nothing wrong with that. Robert Jordan wrote one of the most popular fantasy series in the last century, and it took him what may well have been four more whole novels than necessary to do so, because it fit his style.
Plus, your long stories have helped me get through a bad breakup. I can't actually express how much I appreciate that.
I realize that you are writing as fast as you can; but do understand that I can comfortably read perhaps an order of magnitude more than your daily output...
So... 100k intro? Sounds good to me!
(I’ve read most of the better Fallout: Equestria series, including Project Horizons, Starlight over Detrot, Starscribe & friend’s works, etc... to paraphrase Sir Mix-a-lot, I like long tails and I cannot lie)
Actually, it means you're just a lengthy writing author. Also, i wonder how a meeting between bucky and dim would go.
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That sounds a lot like my my reading habits. The only thing out of that list I haven't gotten to yet is Starlight over Detrot.
So I get 100000 ”rambling” Kudzu words instead of 50000? Seems like a good deal to me
READ ALL THE WORDS \0/
Is it time for Eigengrau Drei then?
I wish I had your problem
I don't think your fans will complain about TOO MANY chapters.
Your words feed my soul. More food plz.
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Slow pace? Well if Kudzu writing is SLOW I really don’t want to know what you call G.R.R.Martin pace...
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No, Kudz writes very quickly. What I meant was that his stories progress at what he seems to feel is a slow pace. The chapters come out fast, but the story doesn't hit points he wants it to for almost double the word count he estimates.
TL;DR Plots moving slow, not writing.
Just to say a, a quick calculation on the time Kudzu has been on Fimfiction and what has been written here gets something like forty three hundred word a day...
Isaac Asimov one of the most prolific author around clocked in at FIFTEEN hundred word a day... so DEFINITELY Kudzu is BLINDINGLY fast as a writer.
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Ah ok
Not so strangely, I am comfortable with this, Kudz.
Compared to The Chase this is a drop in the ocean. As has already been said, you write at a prolific pace so don't feel like you are disappointing your readers... far from it. I think you underestimate yourself and your storytelling sometimes and need a virtual kick up the pants to remind you.
If we, for any moment, thought there were issues we wouldn't be here... again and again... reading your works.
So, Eigengrau Drei around the bend?
Mebbe Eigengrau Vier? Funf? 
Is Gud
Like Long
Dun Stop
How about the in medias res approach, and making a strategic cut right when the 'real' action starts up? Either weaving in the beginning as flash-backs, or outright publishing it as-is as a more low-key 'how they met' prequel?
Don't get me wrong, as a fellow verbose author I can feel the pain of cutting into
'mah babbies!'your stories, but thought I'd mention the idea at least.I don't think that's a problem Kudzu, especially as the writing has been good.
You're writing longer form fiction, that's all. Something that would fit into larger novels.
Well in the prospect of limiting yourself you REALLY suck. then again it is because you let the character run as themselves. rather than adding artificial layers of story to bulk it out.
It’s ok we enjoy the ride.
The only problem I see is that there isn't more story.All of those "filler" words serve a purpose. They help us, the readers get into the mind of the characters.
Hey, I am okay with this. Just look a the Lord of the Rings. It took about half of the first book to get everyone together.
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Then Gandalf told them to fly with the eagles, and everything got complicated from there, because folk walked.
The fact that I can get on here and read a hilariously long, well written novel every once in a while is what makes you my favorite author on the site. Reading is great, more words = more reading, ergo, more words = great!
I do not sense a problem. If your stories moved faster, then we'd miss so much of what makes your work enjoyable. I am here because I love to listen to you ramble. I mean, look at The Puddle Pronker: it is undoubtedly unnecessary as far as worldbuilding/progressing any plots anywhere, and considerably more wordy than was needed to convey what was happening, but it is easily one of my favorite works from you. And the character development you've accomplished through your stories would have been cheap, unrealistic, and worthless had you not carried us through the slow moments and shown how your characters' thoughts and reasoning changed over time. Please, please, please don't say that you're a bad writer; you are, 100%, my favorite fanfic writer on any site I've ever encountered, and it is because you ramble with such eloquence and purpose.
You kidding me? I love how you flesh out the world of Equestria in ways a lot of authors don't. So what your stories reach War and Peace levels, I will still read them and enjoy them.