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How long should a prologue be?
12 years ago
Because this thing's been going on for eighteen pages, and it never ends. Someone should tell me to stop already.
So here we are, a little over my one-month deadline I outlined three journals back for my "first chapter." I should clarify, when I said "first chapter," I was being disingenuous with my use of the word. I guess I meant the introduction or, in essence, the prologue; the fabled Chapter 0.
I've battled with numerous external forces preventing me from accomplishing my goals, and ultimately, I suppose I failed. But then, in a bizarre way, I succeeded beyond expectations. Even my original vision couldn't account for everything I wanted to include on the path to plot development, and the end result, by my estimates, will be somewhere between twenty and twenty-two pages, Size 12 font, Time New Roman, proper formatting (indents, proper paragraph styling, etc.), and -- the total that genuinely matters -- 12,000 words.
Not a bad milestone for my first project.
Wish me luck on this thing. I'm not so proud to think anyone was keeping track, but if you're wondering where the update has been, now you know. :D I'm aiming to have it finished by the end of the week.
So here we are, a little over my one-month deadline I outlined three journals back for my "first chapter." I should clarify, when I said "first chapter," I was being disingenuous with my use of the word. I guess I meant the introduction or, in essence, the prologue; the fabled Chapter 0.
I've battled with numerous external forces preventing me from accomplishing my goals, and ultimately, I suppose I failed. But then, in a bizarre way, I succeeded beyond expectations. Even my original vision couldn't account for everything I wanted to include on the path to plot development, and the end result, by my estimates, will be somewhere between twenty and twenty-two pages, Size 12 font, Time New Roman, proper formatting (indents, proper paragraph styling, etc.), and -- the total that genuinely matters -- 12,000 words.
Not a bad milestone for my first project.
Wish me luck on this thing. I'm not so proud to think anyone was keeping track, but if you're wondering where the update has been, now you know. :D I'm aiming to have it finished by the end of the week.
Probably the more convincing argument I've been told was that my particular audience (i.e. babyfurs) would get overwhelmed reading all that in one sitting. I can see the merit in that, such that it might be worth adjusting things.
Then again, the bigger risk is people turning away because the first thirty pages don't even touch on the whole "diaper" subject. >.>