I (probably) just finshed a chapter of Naborale! · 1:49am May 2nd, 2014
I'm going back and forth on whether to call chapter 5 "done" or not. I haven't gotten the ponies all the way through the Voltaic Age yet and I'd like to stick to my tradition of one chapter, one Age (or Island in Sohndar's case) or the accessing of the next Age, but on the other hand the chapter's already at the high end of my average word count per chapter. Something else stopping me from just calling it a Chapter and posting is I'm not sure how long the second half of Voltaic is going to take me to write in terms of both time and words. It could be short enough to not warrant its own chapter, or it could take me another 3k+ words. But it's been so long since I updated...
So conflicted.
Hm... Have you gone to a prereader to see what they think? If not, I'd be willing to take a look.
Excellent!
(Also, protip: when in doubt, make jokes about the Lava Chamber puzzle being ridiculous. A perennial favourite of the Myst DA community.)
I should probably start actually reading that beyond the intro.
If you try to continue the chapter as one thing, you should under no circumstances try to curb its length just because you did so. Be it 5k or 20k, it's a disservice if it's cut short of what you actually have to write. On the other hand, if you two-part it, the second half should not be padded out beyond its natural length either.
Honestly, I say finish it and then determine whether to split it afterwards. It's enough for us to know you're actually not dead.