I am so spoiled by fanfic updates with chapters of 5K words and more.
When you follow a story you really like and the update is like 2K words or less, it’s like having sex with a teenage boy: you barely get your clothes off and start making out and bam! it’s over. 🙁
This…
Oh, honey! No, no no: that’s not what I meant at all. I must have quite poorly expressed myself, ‘cause this post has taken off in a really unhappy direction. (Look what happens when you wander off for an hour…) I am NOT slamming short fics. Not at all, I love them (I love yours!)
I only intended to say that when following a WIP that you love very much (otherwise, you know… you wouldn’t be following it, right?) it’s disappointing to only get a short update. That’s like only being allowed to eat one piece of chocolate out of a whole box. Short and sweet is lovely, but it does limit the amount of time you can roll around in it and revel.
As a whole, my dear, it’s supposed to be a compliment (I want more, more, more!), and I’m so very sorry that it’s not coming across that way. 🙁
Guilty as charged. I do short updates. And I apologize to anyone following if they are like bad sex. I write when time allows, and there’s just not enough time. Perhaps the short, weekly updates were a mistake.
I’m committed to finishing now, but at least this was a learning experience. It was my intention to have a weekly update as a fun treat to anyone following and to commit myself to regular writing sessions.
I admit I’m feeling a little discouraged but someone said write for yourself and I do so I’ll keep chugging along. This was food for thought.
Bah. Don’t apologize. I get what OP is saying – you’re waiting and the long-wanted update never feels like its enough because ALL OF THE STORY NOW PLZ – but that’s their problem, not yours. It’s your story. It comes as it comes and you have to be happy with it yourself or noone else will be. *hugs*
Poor Mojo. XD I get what you mean, though. I think we all feel it a bit, and I know you’re not trying to blast or blame anybody when they do write shorter.
But from the perspective of the person WRITING those short updates to long, slow WIPs, I do feel bad. I know that as a reader (most fanfic writers are also fanfic readers, it’s not like we’re somehow isolated from reader-pain), it’s crummy to wait for months and then only get 1000 words. And I really, really am sorry about that, but sometimes it’s what I can manage.
I wish I could be one of the people who can power through a long story and maintain focus and post on a regular schedule and write 3000 words in under a month. But I have to live with the reality that I’m none of those things.
The Science of Johnlock: How WIPs can be like Disappointing Sex