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Big Essay Imminent: Advice Required · 10:23pm May 24th, 2016
Greetings, my good ladies and gentlemen.
I am currently in the process of writing a fairly hefty essay on the topic of crossovers, and why so many of them end up as badfics. I post this blog seeking your advice.
The essay itself is going to be about ten thousand words long (five thousand written), and is devided into multiple sub headings. My questions are these:
Should I post the essay as one complete work, or in installments?
Should I post here, or would it be relevant to Rage, in the manner of the discussion piece I recently posted?
Is there any interest in such works, and should I write more of them?
I await your responses with interest, my good ladies and gentlemen.
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A British Gentleman · 317 views
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I prefer reading such things as whole, for what that's worth. For relevance, I personally would keep it just to the blog and link it in Rage where appropriate, but you've posted similar kinds of threads on Rage before without a problem, so I don't know. Ask an admin, I guess. And hell yes there's an interest. That's the whole reason I follow you. Please, write all the essays.
Hmm. Ten thousand words is quite a lot. If you choose to do it as a blog post, doing it as multiple ones may not be a bad idea. With a forum post, it's irrelevant; they're all going to be there anyway, unless you want to go the highly inadvisable route of making multiple threads.
As for where to put it, I think it may work on Rage Reviews (and it will be vastly more visible if you put it there,) but I can't say for certain. I say ask an admin, or just post a link thread if all else fails.
I agree with what DannyJ says, post it in a blog and then link it in rage, perhaps, along with a summary of what it's about and probably mention that it's ten thousand words long, so people know what they're getting into.
I would like it if you posted it as a blog post as one complete work. There is definitely interest in such essays, and you should post more whenever you have something to say about writing.
I'm down for that.
Like Dannyj said, I think it'd be best to just make a discussion thread in Rage that just links to here, although that would probably encourage most of the discussion to happen here (if at all).
Having it whole on the forum would allow you to reach the people willing to read 10k words of blog and the subset of them unwilling to click an extra link to do so.
I guess that mostly depends on whether or not you want to make this a regular occurrence, and the difference between the amount of time that would take to deplete and the amount of time you think to need for new ideas.
If you just plan to post these whenever, it's just a matter of preference then.
I agree with what the others have said. You have written interesting articles before and I'm looking forward to this one.
Post it as a complete work.
Perhaps both, like you did with your recent fixfic post, it's certainly fitting for the group.
Oh hell yeah!
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Thanks a lot for the advise, it was definitely helpful
Based on majority vote, I will post as one complete unit. Additionally, I shall seek advice from an admin with regards to how and whether to post on Rage.
My thanks again
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I would like to read it in installments. In my experience, it's easier to gather one's thoughts if one is completing a work piecemeal, as new thoughts and suggestions turn up as one goes.
On the subject of Crossovers, I would hope you'd include the problem most have in writing them is the author assumes the reader is familiar with the source material, no matter how obscure. I honestly cannot recall how many of such I've reviewed on the The Goodfic Bin and Twilight's Library, but I'm sure the number is in the high 20s.
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Worry not, my good Sir, it shall be covered.
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