Scheduling for new bug chapters · 2:23pm Jan 4th, 2018
My dearest readers,
as a servant (and a humble one, now admire me) and provider of entertainment, I have one question for my audience. Should I publish new chapters for A Bug on a Stick as soon as they are ready, or do you prefer a slightly more regular cadence?
Now, I am a slow writer, and that means that if I publish everything as soon as it is ready there is a decent chance that you will experience a dry spell every now and then. Life tends to look down on pony-writing necessities (an unpleasant bug in reality, if I ever saw one), and I can't guarantee to always meet my self-imposed deadlines.
Distancing the releases a bit, while not exactly guaranteeing a steady supply of fillies doing silly things with eldritch horrors, allows me to try to keep a buffer of material ready for deployment.
Practically, it won't change much in my workflow, so I turn to you and ask: how do you prefer your servings?
As a fellow sliw writer, I tend to release a new chapter as soon as it's ready, but that's more for my own sanity than for any benefit to the readers.
That said, I still advocate for unscheduled releases. After all, yours is not the only story I'm following, so I'll have plenty of other things to fill the gaps in my reading / writing schedule.
But if you feel like a schedule would help you write faster (deadlines can apply helpful pressure to leave well-enough alone and publish) or generate more views (I know a regular schedule is important for webcomics, but I question its helpfulness with a robust notification system in place), then go for that instead.
Well, the obvious best solution is to chain you to a desk and whip you until you write a new chapter.
Seriously, though, do what feels best, though I usually want more, more, MORE right now.
Personally, I like the surprise of "oh hey, 'X' updated!" in my inbox.
...It's funny, ya know, yours is the second story in less than a month I come across that strongly reminds me of a writing prompt I posted in the MLP writing prompt reddit. Only, well, your execution is more original.
It's almost like someone wrote a story for me.
Depends on what kind of story this will be. If it's episodic, release each chapter when you finish it. If it's more serialized, space it out.
I get the feeling that you'd prefer to spread your releases out.
And that does seem like the better idea, when compared to the possibility of an unforeseen dry spell.
Some stories I've read, all it takes is a year without updates or activity from the author and there's crying in the streets and rioters trying to tear up the paving. Which is always disappointing when it's asphalt or concrete because then you just have to watch them scrabbling at the surface.
If you chose to space them out, do it on a thursday.
No one ever updates on thursday.
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Considering the episodic structure and that I have planned out all the major points in the story, I will go with a tight release schedule for the episode with longer (but let's avoid excessively long) stretches between them to build up a buffer for the next episode.
Basically, I will release chapter 2 in a few days and chapter 3 a couple of days after that.
Thank you all for your feedback
Thursday. Update on thursday if you do regular
Also when do you think that you will update this next?
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I should finish the draft for the chapter and the rewrite on sunday, then it will go through my amazing editors. So, probably, sometimes next week. I will try to keep a regularish schedule, and I honestly hope I will manage to do it as I improve.
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Cool. Question: how did they know that Slimy made this things that came out of the cracks in the room when they went after slimey?
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Inference and guessing. Unknown, amorphous, black stuff at the center. Smaller, amorphous, black drops of things move towards it. You can conclude they are somehow related and maybe dangerous.
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Yea i guess that makes sense.