Mar
11th
2014
I should never announce these things until the story is finished *and* edited. · 10:01am Mar 11th, 2014
The fellow who was giving Honey Pie ch.2 a final edit has apparently been having computer troubles and hasn't been in touch all day today. It's no big deal, but I know I did tell a few of you specifically that it would go up either today or tomorrow, and this might no longer be the case. My apologies for that. Whatever happens I'll have it up by the end of the week though! One way or another.
If you ever need a second editor/pre-reader I'm free at the moment.
1916842 How are you with fiddly comma problems and other such grammar issues?
1916844 Pretty good with them, actually.
1916853 Awesome! I'm about ready to crash for the night, but I'll PM you a link to the fic and you can take a look at it for me.
Specifically which of us? I've been busy with schoolwork, but I already went through the whole thing a few times.
1916913 I know. I've already updated it with most of the changes you suggested.
No rush dude, you're getting this story out too fast as it is.
1918766 Too fast? Why is that?
1918858 Sequels usually aren't written as fast, and people are acclimated to such things. There is, of course, an amount of time that would be too great.
1919066 Eh, I consider that sort of thing to be BS. The right amount of time for a thing to be written is the amount of time the author needs to write it, long or short.
1919108 Maybe on the short term side. But on the long side, you're dead wrong. People lose interest. And if you're fortunate enough to hold their interest, the longer you take, the more they will expect, and there will most definitely be a point where they start to expect more than can be delivered.
After all, a story is nothing if there is no one to read it.
1919197 Geez. I honestly can't tell, are you trying to be insulting here? Because that's how it comes across.
1919204 No I'm not. Far from it. I'm trying to be helpful.
1919471 Well, saying that a story is "nothing" without readers to somebody who until last week had pretty much no readers... it comes across as saying that most of my stories are nothing and I shouldn't have bothered to write them, just because they're not popular.
I guess if somebody's only goal is to become popular, then treating one's work like a marketing campaign and carefully being sure to never upload too early or too late, and only writing what other people will want to read, and all that stuff is fine advice, but this is a hobby. I write because it's fun. Even if nobody reads it, it' s not nothing, it's what I wanted to do at the time. Whether it's cases like this where I get on a roll and whip out a ton of writing in a few weeks, or cases like the long epic that I"ve been slowly working on for three years now, I think the thing that matters is if I'm having fun, not if I'm being perfectly optimal to satisfy other people.