long fic is long.
Sep. 14th, 2019 07:26 pm
X-Men medieval AU fic is just shy of 80k words and it is a COMPLETE DRAFT Y'ALL.
*faceplants*
I was averaging about 10k words per week there for the month of August, what the everloving fuck. And then of course it took me two weeks just to write the last damn scene. But it is COMPLETE. I do not say that it is done, because my most excellent betas get to pick it apart some more now, and I already know I've got some serious revising to do in the earlier chapters. But still. \o/
Related to this, I have a genuine question for my fellow readers of longfic. I'm at the point where I vastly prefer reading longer fics, because I love having some actual plot mixed in with my ship of choice (and also, if I'm enjoying a story, I want to be able to really settle into it). I'm less fond of reading active WIPs, because I've been burned too many times by unfinished stories, and even when I know a fic is complete, I'll generally wait until the entirety has been posted before I dive in so that I can enjoy it at my own pace rather than the author's. However! I have also noticed that many readers seem to prefer for longer fics to be posted chapter by chapter, and it does seem to help build up interest in a fic -- if nothing else, it keeps bumping the fic back up to the top of the recent AO3 results list.
So I'm curious. Which method of posting fic do you, as a reader, prefer? All at once, or chapter by chapter? Or something else entirely?
*faceplants*
I was averaging about 10k words per week there for the month of August, what the everloving fuck. And then of course it took me two weeks just to write the last damn scene. But it is COMPLETE. I do not say that it is done, because my most excellent betas get to pick it apart some more now, and I already know I've got some serious revising to do in the earlier chapters. But still. \o/
Related to this, I have a genuine question for my fellow readers of longfic. I'm at the point where I vastly prefer reading longer fics, because I love having some actual plot mixed in with my ship of choice (and also, if I'm enjoying a story, I want to be able to really settle into it). I'm less fond of reading active WIPs, because I've been burned too many times by unfinished stories, and even when I know a fic is complete, I'll generally wait until the entirety has been posted before I dive in so that I can enjoy it at my own pace rather than the author's. However! I have also noticed that many readers seem to prefer for longer fics to be posted chapter by chapter, and it does seem to help build up interest in a fic -- if nothing else, it keeps bumping the fic back up to the top of the recent AO3 results list.
So I'm curious. Which method of posting fic do you, as a reader, prefer? All at once, or chapter by chapter? Or something else entirely?
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