Home is Where You're Being Split into Books, Maybe · 6:10am Apr 27th, 2016
Okay, guys. First off, next chapter is almost ready. Any day, now.
Moving on: those of you who diligently read the comments section of Home may have caught a statement where I said that I wasn't planning on breaking the story up into multiple books. Those of you who are into Warhammer (or have heard of it, maybe), may be aware that that's how I organized the million-plus-words Iron Hearts saga.
So after being asked if I was doing the same with Home, I said no, but then I started thinking about it. I totally could end a long, largely complete story arc soon that obviously doesn't conclude the main plot, and then start up a sequel. Initially I was going to conclude this story (which is only maybe half done), and then look into a true sequel with a new plot if I was still interested. But I've done the multi-book thing before, and it totally worked out. The only thing is that I don't have a definite conclusion pinned down like I did for Iron Hearts, so I couldn't even make a guess at how many books there would be. Not sure if that would be a problem. God knows I've lost to Hobby Creep before, but I'm essentially only working on two fanfiction projects right now (two and half, if you include Gears, which nobody should).
So, I dunno. What do you guys think? Anybody care?
Book format seems to fit your style,
and it isn't as if there's a hard and fast distinction between the five volumes of Iron Hearts and the new thing - you're calling it Home?Teach me to comment before the witching hour. You're talking about the Ranma story, not renaming Entrenchment. Point still stands though. Although the story is more The Fugitive vs. the Battlestar Galactica reboot of Iron Hearts. Kinda episodic. Not sure how that would break down into parts? The individual chapters already are discrete
Bruce BannerRanma comes into a town, makes a mess and resolves it episodes.It's really up toy ou, if you split it into several books or keep as a single story.
I'll read it anyway!
Though if you say that multiple books wroked for you before, than go for it!
I think it sounds pretty good to me. You've got yourself a pretty good style of writing and I don't see why you should stop it.
We are only half done with the story possibly? I get the feeling that the two villains, and for on of them I use that term lightly, are just about done. Still splitting it up may help readers who stumble upon your story at a later date not see the word count/Chapter count and decide not to read.
Full support for whatever you think best here!
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Well, we've reached the crux of a major plot point, since Twilight was captured along with the MacGuffin and - in theory - the villains are pretty much victorious. It's a major conflict that everything so far has been building up to, putting aside all the side-quests that ended in torched buildings and brutalized musicians.
I can't say much without spoiling everything, but this is actually just a halfway point. However, I could totally present it as being the "major battle" for this part of the story, much like how the first book of Iron Hearts concluded with the Iron Warriors storming the Tau forest base. It obviously didn't resolve the plot, but was sufficient to conclude a story arc and set the stage for the rest of the saga.
The problem is, I totally didn't plan on that with the Ranma story. I didn't even name it "Book 1"!
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But there's so much more ground to cover! Rite's back story is still being slowly peeled away, Luna has yet to sort out her feelings, and that dragon prince I mentioned in the story summary hasn't even been hinted at!
Also, changelings, maybe?
Besides, Ranma's main adversary has never been the actual villains in the story. However much Blood Rite may come to loathe him, he'll never hate Ranma Saotome as much as the universe as a whole.
As i mentioned before i think the story arc/book pacing would work best for ranma 1/2 as the series was fairly episodic in nature. I say if it ain't broke don't fix it.