i just wanted to say that I really love how you post your progress on tvd sequel cause it's just reassuring to know that one of your favorite fics is still being updated :') and i just wanted to ask how do you plan on posting the sequel? is it gonna be an all at once type thing or a chapter a week? I feel like you've answered this question b4 so sorry if you have! and thanks for all your smaller fics cause they keep me sane while waiting for the sequel which is undoubtably going to destroy me D:
<3 Thank you! It’s odd, because I usually have a no-bullshit post-it-or-shut-up-about-it policy about fics I’m writing, but this one is such a doozy that I just can’t keep quiet about it. I’m really happy to see people actually like reading about the progress things!
I’m gonna post it the way I posted the other two novel length fics I’ve written, i.e. one chapter a week. Um. In theory.
See, in theory I start posting when my final draft is finished, and I only do one final readthrough of every chapter before I post it, just to check for typos or inconsistencies. What actually happens is that while I am rereading my supposedly “finished” chapter, I notice about half a dozen things that still need to be fixed or stuff that needs adding. And obviously I want that in order before I post, so what is supposed to be a schedule of once-a-week actually becomes once-every-two-weeks or occasionally three weeks, depending on how stubborn the chapter is being.
One thing, though: once I start posting, I don’t stop. I mean, at this point there still is a small chance (tiny! honestly!) that tvd2 stalls and I don’t get it finished and it remains a WIP. Once the first chapter is posted, there is no chance in hell that I won’t post the last chapter too. It might take a while, sure, but we’re talking weeks, not years. There is no way I’m ever putting up a fic that ends up in WIP hell.
(also: tvd 3 will be posted not that long after tvd2, I hope. I already have a very good idea what’s happening there, which I didn’t have after part 1, so with a bit of luck you won’t have to wait years for the concluding part.)