I had a long chat with some writer buddies this evening and I’ve been looking over comments y’all have made to me the last couple months.
I’m going to take the collective advice and put posting this thing on hiatus. The serial thing is killing me.
I’m on a stupid schedule now of “post as soon as I have a final version”. It’s unfair to my betas; it’s driving me crazy.
I got useful feedback today, too, a request that I make the chapters longer. I can do that, and it will let me get through things faster. It means some retooling and rethinking my chapter headings. I’ve been trying to adhere to 1500 word chunks. No good reason really, but I was trying to keep the chapters a regular length and had to pick a number. (ENTIRELY coincidental that it’s close to NaNo’s 1667 words. I swear.) If any of you have thoughts on chapter length or naming, sing out.
So for those of you who’ve stepped away mid-story — what are your words of wisdom? Do I preface the next chapter with a giant “Publishing has been suspended”? Do I provide a potential ETA for the hiatus to end? Do I emulate what the BBC did to Dr Who during Colin Baker’s run and make it vague?
I do fully intend to release the rest of it, but now is bad amidst everything else in my life.