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Nameless Narrator


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  • 7 weeks
    Does anyone play Darktide?

    Just curious, does anyone here play Darktide? My group kinda dissolved and it's not as fun when playing solo anymore.

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  • 15 weeks
    What started the drone-centric stories

    Nothing interesting this time, just two pictures that sparked my idea about hive drones in general. We haven't reached the chill Chrysalis stage yet, but who knows how things will be by book 12 or something. Anyway, the cover I made for They're Everywhere is based on pic 2, but no matter how I tried making pixelart with the right kind of feel for books 2 and 3, it kinda sucked so I stuck to

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  • 16 weeks
    Good luck, everyone, going into 2024

    So, I've been sitting in front of the screen for the good part of fifteen minutes, figuring out what to say for the now usual end of the year recap, and I've got nothing. Much like any time I try to push On Holiday forward, the empty page just laughs at me.

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  • 21 weeks
    G5: Make Your Mark chapter 6 and Secrets of Starlight

    And here we are, the finale of G5 plus the Secrets of Starlight special.

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    14 comments · 225 views
  • 22 weeks
    THEY'RE HO- I mean I'm home!

    So, after two weeks in the hospital and almost a week of pain before that, I'm finally home. There's only one oozing hole left in my neck (over the normal amount), I'll be taking antibiotics for a while still, but unless everything suddenly explodes I'm back in business.

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Aug
1st
2019

Chapter length question · 8:08am Aug 1st, 2019

So, now that I've put out 2 chapters, how are things with readability?

My original plan was to update monthly with long chapters like these two, but weekly-ish schedule of shorter chapters like in the previous book/s is a possibility as well. The faster updates happened mostly because I had some free time. So, now that you've gotten a taste of both formats, what do you think is better for exposure, readability, and something else I 100% forgot?

One thing that come to mind is that shorter chapters/more frequent updates mean more exposure on the front page. The big chapters mean more complete sets, which I don't know is a bonus, because it might look like the same amount of events, only taking more words to write. The exposure sucks with the long chapters, though, since I don't do any repeated group spam/promotions. I also genuinely can't evaluate which kind is better for the story.

What do you think? Short, frequent, and snappy, or long, thick, sweaty, zebra... I got carried away.

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I don't know about everyone else, but I prefer long chapters...Heh, not many people from what I heard, do.

Perhaps do a longer chapter for the last two weeks of a month and two shorter for the first two weeks of a month? That way you can work on getting exposure without trying to cut down on the story's major events.

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Welp, long it is.
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I thought about it, then tried to split the two uploaded chapters as practice, and the cuts made absolutely no sense. I think I'll just have to forgo exposure and reader quantity. I guess it's okay, involvement is what matters anyway.

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