I’m still iffy on the opening Prologue. I have a few close writer friends who want to read it, and once I’ve integrated their suggestions, I’ll send it for prereading by non-LW bronies.
In addition to what Rhwawn said, you’re already losing control of its deployment. When I typed “friendship is o” into Google (not logged in), it autocompleted the rest, and the search turned up a Goodreads page and two TV Tropes comments about the story.
Thank you for the alert, now I need to do some sort of emergency launch. So:
I very recently reworked the Prologue to focus on David and James due to a my friends objecting to quick throw away characters like that, and recommending that I make the prologue about them. Do you think what I have is good enough to launch?
I was thinking of posting Prologue through Chapter 4 in one go (to hook people) and then posting a chapter every couple of days. If I’ve sort of lost control, should I even bother with that?
Haven’t read much yet, but once you’ve got some chapters posted and a posted schedule for the rest you can probably get away with making the Google Docs file private, or replacing it with a link to the Fimfiction page.
You might as well. I doubt you are going to change the prologue a lot this far into the game, if you do it’s not that hard to change the prologue page, and every day you wait you are forfeiting some readers.
So you are incurring a sure loss in the name of avoiding a smaller unsure loss.
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood that your previous post meant “It’s been more than one month since I released it”. I should have noticed I was confused.
I am not sure whether I should thank you or curse you. This fic is presenting such an amazingly attractive scenario that I find myself genuinely regretting the fact that it isn’t fiction. Is this what EY meant when he talked about weirdtopia sucking one’s soul?
I understand that it’s been more than a month.
I’m still iffy on the opening Prologue. I have a few close writer friends who want to read it, and once I’ve integrated their suggestions, I’ll send it for prereading by non-LW bronies.
I can’t find it by its title, though. Is it under some alternate name?
I’m not sure what you’re asking. I haven’t published it on fimfiction or fanfiction.net yet.
In addition to what Rhwawn said, you’re already losing control of its deployment. When I typed “friendship is o” into Google (not logged in), it autocompleted the rest, and the search turned up a Goodreads page and two TV Tropes comments about the story.
Oh bloody hell.
Thank you for the alert, now I need to do some sort of emergency launch. So:
I very recently reworked the Prologue to focus on David and James due to a my friends objecting to quick throw away characters like that, and recommending that I make the prologue about them. Do you think what I have is good enough to launch?
I was thinking of posting Prologue through Chapter 4 in one go (to hook people) and then posting a chapter every couple of days. If I’ve sort of lost control, should I even bother with that?
What am I forgetting?
Haven’t read much yet, but once you’ve got some chapters posted and a posted schedule for the rest you can probably get away with making the Google Docs file private, or replacing it with a link to the Fimfiction page.
You might as well. I doubt you are going to change the prologue a lot this far into the game, if you do it’s not that hard to change the prologue page, and every day you wait you are forfeiting some readers.
So you are incurring a sure loss in the name of avoiding a smaller unsure loss.
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood that your previous post meant “It’s been more than one month since I released it”. I should have noticed I was confused.
I am not sure whether I should thank you or curse you. This fic is presenting such an amazingly attractive scenario that I find myself genuinely regretting the fact that it isn’t fiction. Is this what EY meant when he talked about weirdtopia sucking one’s soul?