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I got a message like this a few months back, something like “I’m an artist who read your stories and would love to do a few pieces based on them!” I was legit kind of hyped at first, but then I noticed how suspiciously non-specific the wording had been, like they were excited about stuff in the stories but didn’t say what in the stories they were excited about, and didn’t name any of the stories they’d been reading. I’m sort of glad to know my instinct not to reply was probably correct.

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I am definitely looking at and probably will split up the chapters into smaller pieces. Right now I’m looking at around 10 pages for each chapter just based on what makes sense for the story.

As a follow on, yes, I did manage to finally write past that 105k/107k (depends on using FFN vs the libreoffice’s word counter) old chapter on the rewrite… became like 126 chapters or something like that. Now tackling that 91k old chapter and wondering how long that’ll end up For Repair Guy, I did experiment, overall successfully with deliberately keeping them short (around 2k) … though it’s rewrite has stalled.

Hi, Deadman and all. I’m a little bit late to the game here. Just the same, I agree with everyone else here that 20k words in a multi-chapter story is a bit excessive. Sometimes, the story flow just won’t let you cut it any shorter. However, if that’s the case, then you had better have some very exciting and readable stuff. An alternative is to put more content in to the chapter, allowing you to split the now 24k chunk of prose into two 9k chapters and a 6k chapter while maintaining both story pacing and reader interest. When looking at stories as a reader, I tend to look for longer, but not “too long” chapters. As a rule of thumb, a 2k chapter is a “Reader’s Digest story of a story,” and more than 20k has me wondering if the writer has any clue about what they’re writing. In “published life,” Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy has a chapter that’s barely two pages, plus multiple chapters that are practically novellas or at least novella length in their own right. Cheers!

nothing yet I haven’t even been able to finish a oneshot that was almost frickin’ finished. The Man on the Clapham Omnivorebus Thank you for the review! I still like to think there’s slightly less horror than on some actual London nightbuses. They say the people who get off the N15 at Romford are well past Barking… Luckily, because it’s a smut fuck the answer is applied metaphyics! I mean uh, blowin’ a load. Thank you again! Just finding a bus to get on feels like more of a struggle sometime tbh. Not the best public transport system in the world. Heh, the main difference is that before Sarsa was crazy, with her mind fractured, where as this is sane and repentent Sarsa. Still writing terrible fanfic though, I suspect. Kizzy has likely become resigned to many events that surround her involving mortals getting sticky and out of breath. What happened to the days when you just smote things she wants to know… I absolutely get where you’re coming from. It could definitely have been a whole thing of tranforming, screwing more, exploring the new form… but I guess I was kind of written out by that point If I’d have pushed it more I might not have finished. At least Dylan and Sarsa got to! Thank you again, it was a pleasant suprise to get another review here!

I definitely had very similar reviews on my two ff net stories years ago, the scam’s gonna be getting old enough to drink soon.

That is on purpose, to reward authors and encourage them to go back and update older stories to use new site features.