- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: flashbang6
i suppose mr clark is taking a break
but he still didnt answer my questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not quite taking a break, but almost. I did read your PM, and since a lot of your questions were the same as the other PM's I had been getting, I just took the most common questions and put them in a big FAQ type thingy on page 106.
As for Chapter 20, I'm thinking I might be able to release it on Monday. I really really really want to have it all wrapped up by then. Mostly because I'm nearing the month-long mark that I promised myself, and you guys, that I wouldn't hit.
I should confide in you all though, a little fact that might scare you, but one that I feel needs to be shared.
When I write a story, the last few chapters always, always take me forever to write. My stuff on fanfiction.net? One of the stories, Until the End, the final chapter (not the epilogue) took me two and a half months to write. Balance of Power? Three months.
That should tell you something. All though I can almost guarantee that I won't take that long for this story, but just to let you know, the possibility is there however remote it may be.
There's a few reasons why I always take forever to write the final bits in my writings. First off, I want them to be near-perfect. There has to be no stone unturned, no plot piece left unfulfilled, and no scene not done to such a fine degree of detail that it shines.
Another reason I think is that I am almost always afraid to tackle the final chapters. I look at them like these big daunting tasks, hurdles if you will, and I am supposed to leap over them with ease. Instead I struggle to pull myself up and over each one, whimpering all the while like an infant.
The final reason I would have to say is that I'm always sad to see a story end. I think this stems from my own personal problem of always never being satisfied with how a story ends. I'm always left sitting there thinking, "Well, what happens next?" "Did (Character A) accomplish what he wanted to do?"
Its a personal quirk, but one that lets me so unabashedly work on fanfiction all the time. I just know later on when I'm writing my own stories from my very own created universe's that I'm going to have to fight hard with myself to limit the size of my novels cause I'll be so intent on keeping the story going it'll surpass the 1000 page mark in a flash.
Ugh, I had a question I wanted to address but I'm exhausted. Hopefully I can get back here before work and post the rest.