Rudolph the red-nosed dentist

[heavensqueen]

Writing post : http://yuletide-coal.dreamwidth.org/6728.html

Other useful links:
2016 Timeline : https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/28822.html
Collection: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2016

 

Letters post: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1274815.html
Letters DB: http://www.dennis-sellers.com/yuletide/index.html
Treat spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Bv9vJXykH9BUgn6q5DIBliBgMWzlVpXiB9d1lNoub4/edit?usp=sharing

Yuleporn: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1276881.html
Crueltide: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1274987.html
Two for One: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1278973.html

Comments

Longfic: post it in one chunk or in separate chapters?

[(Anonymous)]

What should I do coalies? It's getting close to 10k in length.

Re: Longfic: post it in one chunk or in separate chapters?

[(Anonymous)]

separate chapters. Then if I have to read it in pieces I know where I left off.

Re: Longfic: post it in one chunk or in separate chapters?

[(Anonymous)]

I prefer separate chapters, but from previous discussions I tend to think I'm in the minority on this.

Re: Longfic: post it in one chunk or in separate chapters?

[(Anonymous)]

One chunk. It's easier on my fic reader app.

Re: Longfic: post it in one chunk or in separate chapters?

[(Anonymous)]

Do whatever feels natural for the flow of the story TBH. 10k isn't too long to be in one chunk if that's what you're worried about.

Re: Longfic: post it in one chunk or in separate chapters?

[(Anonymous)]

+1 unless there are chapter breaks inherent to the story, post it in one chunk

Re: Longfic: post it in one chunk or in separate chapters?

[(Anonymous)]

+2. I don't personally consider 10k anywhere near long enough to need chaptering, but if there are breaks in the flow at, say, 1/3 and 2/3 of the way through, then you certainly could.

Re: Longfic: post it in one chunk or in separate chapters?

[(Anonymous)]

Technically, I prefer one long chunk, but even if you don't post it in one, it doesn't matter. I'd just click the Show Full Work button.

Re: Longfic: post it in one chunk or in separate chapters?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I do this too. I hate chapters, because they come up on separate pages and make it hard to go back and reread things when I realise I blanked on a sentence or I don't remember what I just read. As long as the link doesn't force chapter view, I can deal.

But OP can also code in dividers rather than do full on chapters, like be like <<<-*->>> for a scene break rather than a new chapter. That's an option. It's kind of a medium, in between, personal preference option, but it is there.

Re: Longfic: post it in one chunk or in separate chapters?

[(Anonymous)]

How many chapters would you be splitting it in? As a general rule of thumb, I don't think a chapter should be less than 2.5k, and I think splitting 10k into four chapters would be silly.