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frith_in_thornsI completely forgot about this last week and then spent the first half of the week vaguely meaning to make a catch-up post and never getting round to it. Anyway, still writing the fix-it, it is definitely going to continue the thing in Guardian fandom where each longfic I write is longer than the previous one. Goblin Fruit was 38k and this one is currently 37k and still a few chapters from the end.
I am considering starting to post it this week. I did the chapter-splitting as I went, this time, which I found much less stressful than trying to do that afterwards. I'm partway through ch 16 at the moment -- they're all around 2.5k. I am intending to post twice a week, since I don't think I can keep up with my usual three times a week at present and also I kept getting comments on the last couple of fics from people who hadn't had time to keep catching up between chapters.
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It had been too much to hope that Zhu Hong might be waiting discreetly in his office. She was standing by the table, her arms crossed, tapping her foot. Flawlessly made up. He would have expected nothing less from the Yashou Chief when she wanted to go and yell at someone.
"Hi," Zhao Yunlan said. "How are you?" He gave her what he hoped was a friendly and calming smile.
It didn't work. Her eyes flashed briefly red. "You bastard," she snapped. "You couldn't let me know yourself that you weren't dead?"
He winced. Straight to it. "I tried, but you were busy…"
I am considering starting to post it this week. I did the chapter-splitting as I went, this time, which I found much less stressful than trying to do that afterwards. I'm partway through ch 16 at the moment -- they're all around 2.5k. I am intending to post twice a week, since I don't think I can keep up with my usual three times a week at present and also I kept getting comments on the last couple of fics from people who hadn't had time to keep catching up between chapters.
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It had been too much to hope that Zhu Hong might be waiting discreetly in his office. She was standing by the table, her arms crossed, tapping her foot. Flawlessly made up. He would have expected nothing less from the Yashou Chief when she wanted to go and yell at someone.
"Hi," Zhao Yunlan said. "How are you?" He gave her what he hoped was a friendly and calming smile.
It didn't work. Her eyes flashed briefly red. "You bastard," she snapped. "You couldn't let me know yourself that you weren't dead?"
He winced. Straight to it. "I tried, but you were busy…"
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Date: 2020-04-12 09:04 pm (UTC)That's probably a reasonable schedule; I just get impatient (and forgetful!) myself. But then I usually just wait for completion and run through everything all at once, and then all the folks who are better at reading in smaller chunks get their way, so everybody wins.
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Date: 2020-04-12 09:50 pm (UTC)I get impatient about posting -- as soon as I put a chapter up I want to put up the next one RIGHT THEN! But I do prefer chapter posting over one big chunk, and I think Big Chunk stories can be quite intimidating to read.
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Date: 2020-04-13 04:56 am (UTC)Oh, Zhu Hong's life...!
Yay for words! *^^*
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