Minor Milestones, but Milestones Nonetheless

[eristeine]

Oh absolutely. I don't know about anyone else, but I think I was wayyy too ambitious for aiming to have a long series from the get-go lmao o o

Oh god, fantasy novels. Did they plan it out to be a trilogy? Because I heard that that too was a common mistake XD

Oooh I'll check it out in a bit, still have class to attend atm.

Yoooo, thanks And I shall! I'm brainstorming, still, so

[eristeine]

OH dude, 500 words every other day? I fucking salute you, man. Without a buffer too, daaang.
I'm happy you got a sub every ten days! here's to you getting twice that amount in half the length of time

[eristeine]

Went and read it, I'm curious as to what Anisa has to say :o
Though I guess I won't be finding out anytime soon XD

[Rhonder]

LOL well, the next page cuts to the school cafeteria and she just pulls up the news article on her phone outlining the big giveaway and is all "we're going to this after school!"

Then fast forward to the end of the chapter like 10 pages later where everyone who got something from the giveaway gets warped off to a fantasy world, and it's one of those types of stories xD Where the giveaway was an elaborate trap by the bad guy to kidnap a bunch of people and so on and so forth. Everything beyond Ch 2 where that's revealed is pretty okay-to-subpar though, and if I ever pick the story back up I need to make better motivations for a lot of the characters xD

[eristeine]

Oooh! The dropped-into-a-game story! I haven't read many, or well, at all, of those, it would have been interesting

Bro, you and me both. you know, I've been writing short stories for my own characters from that long ass series and I've found out that a) holy fuck I don't know how to write these assholes and b) I need to write them better XD Ah well.

How is the writing for your long series going on, btw?

[morcalivan]

I too have a fantasy long series. Are we all the same person? Mine was concepted as a 5 part YA series, of which book one is complete (at just over 100k words). I haven't worked on it much this year, being too obsessed with comics, and also because it's apparently not very good. Or it's too weird and disturbing (according to my mother). Either way, about 50 agents have said a very resounding no. So that's kind of disheartening.

Maybe one day I am better at drawing and panelling, I'll adapt it to a comic. You know, if I am also super drunk and working through those 500 pages for an 8th time seems appealing.

I very much admire those of you who have buffers. As soon as I have a page, I immediately want to put it up. I have no impulse control.

[eristeine]

Might be! Fuck man, 5 parts?! That's the exact same arcs I wanted in my series XD Yooo
But yo! Yo! You actually finished a part! That's way more than I can say for myself. Great job!
What's it about? :o If it's right up my alley, I'd like to give it a shot! I can give compliments and constructive criticism both as politely and kindly as I can

bro, same. I'm just. I get really excited to share the story so I immediately post it XD I'm trying to curb the action though.

[minerrale]

Haha, thank you! It's quite the challenge, I'll admit, but it's a good exercise and I'm lucky 500 words fit the "bite-sized" episodes that Tapas readers like!
Awww thanks, dude! You're too kind

[eristeine]

I'm not a novelist, so I didn't know that Back when I wrote for ff.net the readers usually liked longer chapters! How curious. But yes, awesome!

[LortiaMJB]

I think a lot of people here use the app to just read something during their breaks or look up the Daily Bites on the app. So having smaller episodes makes it really easy for them to keep up without having to look up where they ended.

[eristeine]

That makes sense! Thanks

[LortiaMJB]

Now coming back on topic for myself... During my free day so far (and this week) my minor goals ended up being:

Scripting chapter 3
finish 6 pages because long weekend (national holidays)

Managed to get 3 pages done already, scripted the coming 15 pages for chapter 3 and I think I'm going to put my goal for this week to 8 pages instead.

crossing 10 subscribers over the weekend (and reaching 15 last night) really boosted my morale. XD

[minerrale]

These are great goals! You rox mate!
Also congrats on the sub count, that's awesome!

[eristeine]

DUDE
YO
THAT'S AWESOME
And you managed to bump up the goal! !!
You did fantastic! And you deserve those subs

[LortiaMJB]

By now I should be able to finish the third chapter before the second even ends, might just as well start updating biweekly.

[eristeine]

Yoooo, if u want to, go ahead!

Also, I was meaning to ask, have you done the cross-posting thing yet? might help you with ur sub count :3

[LortiaMJB]

Not yet, not yet. I should really do so!

[eristeine]

I am in full support of it Gooooo

[LortiaMJB]

Also, introducing the face of an owl that is just DONE. XD My mind is so set on drawing it's crazy, haven't been like that for years. O_O

[eristeine]

I. I can see it now.
Your readers will make that face into a meme XD