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2 years ago
Okay! So a couple of changes to Dusk Day's format.
Firstly, I decided to change the naming convention for the chapters. The original convention was a confusing mess born of my indecision. The idea was to have main chapters and 'interlude' chapters, the former focused on storytelling and the latter focused on smut. The idea was to keep major story beats separate from the smut, in a way that would be easy to identify, and people could follow along with one or both depending on their preferences.
Somehow that morphed into a confusing number/letter thing that I never fully committed to.
So I've scrapped that. The chapters now run linearly, no more 'extra' chapters. I am still alternating between Narrative-focused and Smut-focused, but now I'm just tagging the smutty chapters as 'After Dark' and leaving a line in the description explaining what that means. I think this will make it less confusing. I'm also scrapping my original idea to keep major story beats away from the 'Smut' chapters. You will start seeing more impactful story beats in the smut. It was a restriction that I don't think came with any benefits, and I think dropping it will make for better writing overall.
Secondly, I am dropping my weekly release schedule. I didn't post last week, and I am not posting today. I have a chapter in the can ready to go, but I realized I wanted to spend more time editing it before publishing, so I'm just going to scrap my schedule.
Yeah this means that story stuff will come less frequently. Honestly, if anyone is out there disappointed to hear that, it would make my day to hear that. But I don't think anyone is really reading this regularly, so I'm just gonna post when stuff is ready.
I realized that I'm writing this for me, not for anyone else. The truth is that I have all these characters, this little world I built with my spouse and my bestie, and I want to write about them. There are stories that I want to tell about them, about who they are, how they became who they are in my head. And part of that is because my memory is getting worse as I get older, and I desperately want to immortalize all of these ideas in a way that I could, when I am older, go back and read. So that these characters and their kinky escapades live forever.
So, by no means am I stopping. I hope the above really hits it home that I am in this thing for the long haul. But it's important to me that it's good, and I have more bad weeks than good weeks, creatively, so I don't want to rush it, or force it, and end up with something I don't feel really strongly about.
Anyway, if you're reading, thanks!
Harle
Firstly, I decided to change the naming convention for the chapters. The original convention was a confusing mess born of my indecision. The idea was to have main chapters and 'interlude' chapters, the former focused on storytelling and the latter focused on smut. The idea was to keep major story beats separate from the smut, in a way that would be easy to identify, and people could follow along with one or both depending on their preferences.
Somehow that morphed into a confusing number/letter thing that I never fully committed to.
So I've scrapped that. The chapters now run linearly, no more 'extra' chapters. I am still alternating between Narrative-focused and Smut-focused, but now I'm just tagging the smutty chapters as 'After Dark' and leaving a line in the description explaining what that means. I think this will make it less confusing. I'm also scrapping my original idea to keep major story beats away from the 'Smut' chapters. You will start seeing more impactful story beats in the smut. It was a restriction that I don't think came with any benefits, and I think dropping it will make for better writing overall.
Secondly, I am dropping my weekly release schedule. I didn't post last week, and I am not posting today. I have a chapter in the can ready to go, but I realized I wanted to spend more time editing it before publishing, so I'm just going to scrap my schedule.
Yeah this means that story stuff will come less frequently. Honestly, if anyone is out there disappointed to hear that, it would make my day to hear that. But I don't think anyone is really reading this regularly, so I'm just gonna post when stuff is ready.
I realized that I'm writing this for me, not for anyone else. The truth is that I have all these characters, this little world I built with my spouse and my bestie, and I want to write about them. There are stories that I want to tell about them, about who they are, how they became who they are in my head. And part of that is because my memory is getting worse as I get older, and I desperately want to immortalize all of these ideas in a way that I could, when I am older, go back and read. So that these characters and their kinky escapades live forever.
So, by no means am I stopping. I hope the above really hits it home that I am in this thing for the long haul. But it's important to me that it's good, and I have more bad weeks than good weeks, creatively, so I don't want to rush it, or force it, and end up with something I don't feel really strongly about.
Anyway, if you're reading, thanks!
Harle
