Feb
12th
2016
So Updates, They're A Thing · 1:10pm Feb 12th, 2016
Hey, some of you may have noticed that there was a huge break between writing. That was two things:
1. Work. Real Life. Other Stuff.
2. New writing resolutions - I write about 500-1k words a day and new stories are now completed before they are published.
So basically I'm like a laggy computer, it'll give you stuff in bursts, but more complete than you expected. Seeing as how new fics have to follow this rule, this is an effort to stamp out my bad habit of starting a fic as soon as I have a new idea.
Cheerio.
Also side note:
Thanks to the couple of people who chose some of my fics for readings, I think I'll showcase them later, but I'm chuffed!
Is that really such a great idea? One of the better parts about posting stories piecemeal, the way people do here, is that you get feedback as you go along. When you make a real writing blunder, people will have the opportunity to tell you so and fix it in future chapters. If it's all already finished, that kind of takes away from the point of it a bit, doesn't it? Unless you plan to post everything all at once in the future, you'll just be spacing things out for its own sake.
3751543 The idea is that pre-readers and editors should have caught that before. Feedback from my readers should affect some of the more minor aspects of the story, and should not influence major arcs and plot points. Mechanistic and stylistic errors should have been stamped out early.
The idea of having it complete before publishing has several advantages:
1. Since the whole story is complete, required changes can be dealt with in a timely manner making regular updates easier to deal with.
2. The commitment is made to finish the story, there is no chance that there will cancellations or hiatus.
3. It allows for a better sense of the totality of the story. Too many changes and it might get lost in the minutiae of details rather than in conveying the overarching plot. I've noticed in some stories that people focus on what speaks to them, rather than what I consider important.
This is a new idea I'm playing around with. It may or may not work out well.
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Well, so long as you don't set your heart on it too much. In all honesty, the ability to talk to a writer about an ongoing story and, to a degree, influence it with my feedback to it is one of my favourite things about this whole "fanfiction" thing. I don't expect anyone to break off whole storylines because of reader opinions or anything, but it means you're not writing entirely in a vacuum and usually a story ends up better for that. If everything is already finished and set in stone, the whole commenting thing just seems like it has less of a point to me.
Oh well, we'll see how that works out. It's just my opinion on it, anyway.