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Awww! Thanks. *bashful dwarf twisting his beard gif*
It’s not so much that I think I’ll have hate rained on me by the masses if I don’t stick to a schedule, so much as that I am a Chronic Near-Finisher-Of-Things, and I’m absolutely petrified that I’ll get four hundred thousand words into this and then leave the last chapter unfinished, or something. So I’m trying to really have a rigorous but manageable update schedule, and the problem is that, of course, as I’ve gone along the little bit of slack in the story’s structure has all gotten pushed toward the end to the point where it’s all bunched up, and now it’s huge issues I have to fix; simultaneously, my schedule has gone from the yawning gape of nothing that is January into the jam-packed pandemonium that is my attempting to bilocate for the duration of the summer. I’m coming up on a solid 25 days or so where I’ll be living in a yurt without wifi, and working 12+ hour days farming. So.
Clearly, the schedule is going to slip, and I’m in denial. :( I had hoped I’d be done by now; that was why I was lying to myself that I was going to be able to manage extra chapters back in April. I didn’t, and now I’m paying for it.
I just want to finish this thing and not have people drift off into disappointment when I don’t, again. I just looked back at some of my old works’ stats, and was really sort of horrified to realize that there are so many, so so so many hits, on the one big unfinished one– it’s a terrible hits-to-kudos-to-comments ratio, because people land on it and realize it’s unfinished. And I need like. Five thousand words to finish it. It’s over 150,000 words long. Nobody will read that. You would be an idiot to read that. Abandoned for a year? Almost as long as Moby-Dick? Why would you read that?
I don’t want to make another one of those. (I want to go back and finish it.) (Losing momentum on the current project to address an old project is a terrible idea.) (I don’t want to get paralyzed.)
I want to finish something. I want to stick to a schedule.
But I also want to survive, and make it a good story, so.
You can’t always get what you want, you know?
Awww! Thanks. *bashful dwarf twisting his beard gif*
It’s not so much that I think I’ll have hate rained on me by the masses if I don’t stick to a schedule, so much as that I am a Chronic Near-Finisher-Of-Things, and I’m absolutely petrified that I’ll get four hundred thousand words into this and then leave the last chapter unfinished, or something. So I’m trying to really have a rigorous but manageable update schedule, and the problem is that, of course, as I’ve gone along the little bit of slack in the story’s structure has all gotten pushed toward the end to the point where it’s all bunched up, and now it’s huge issues I have to fix; simultaneously, my schedule has gone from the yawning gape of nothing that is January into the jam-packed pandemonium that is my attempting to bilocate for the duration of the summer. I’m coming up on a solid 25 days or so where I’ll be living in a yurt without wifi, and working 12+ hour days farming. So.
Clearly, the schedule is going to slip, and I’m in denial. :( I had hoped I’d be done by now; that was why I was lying to myself that I was going to be able to manage extra chapters back in April. I didn’t, and now I’m paying for it.
I just want to finish this thing and not have people drift off into disappointment when I don’t, again. I just looked back at some of my old works’ stats, and was really sort of horrified to realize that there are so many, so so so many hits, on the one big unfinished one– it’s a terrible hits-to-kudos-to-comments ratio, because people land on it and realize it’s unfinished. And I need like. Five thousand words to finish it. It’s over 150,000 words long. Nobody will read that. You would be an idiot to read that. Abandoned for a year? Almost as long as Moby-Dick? Why would you read that?
I don’t want to make another one of those. (I want to go back and finish it.) (Losing momentum on the current project to address an old project is a terrible idea.) (I don’t want to get paralyzed.)
I want to finish something. I want to stick to a schedule.
But I also want to survive, and make it a good story, so.
You can’t always get what you want, you know?
