Fanfiction: There is no end to the making of revisions

[nebroadwe]

Everybody else has NaNo; I've got "In My End Is My Beginning":

2,132 / 10,000 (21.3%)

I'm upping the potential final word count to ten thousand, partly because it's a nice, round number; partly because I'd love to have something that long up at FF.net to draw in more readers; and partly because the rewritten bit is already 355 words longer than it was in the original and I've got my eye on three other sections that will require beefing up on a similar scale. Argh. But Winry's internal monologue is flowing more smoothly now that I've figured out what's bothering her in relation to what's bothering Ed, so the opening isn't just all about plot exposition. ("It has to go somewhere!") I still want a better title, but maybe one will pop up later.

Comments

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I know -- I'm always looking for the long stuff, myself, so the fact that people prefer drabbles and flashfics always catches me off guard. But I figure I'd catch more flies readers with a wider range of stuff and breaking the 10000 word barrier has kind of been a goal for me for a while now ...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this, mind you. I prefer longer works (look at the epic I'm churning out now which has hemorraghed readers because it's long)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

That I just don't get. If it's a good story, who cares that it takes an expansive view of the plot?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I take it as a sign of mental laziness personally but that might be cynical

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Just a touch. :-)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snort