Category Story / Animal related (non-anthro)
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The TL;DR in the description really puts a nice bow on the chapter. Maybe consider using the description one-liners as titles in the next draft? (Not that it needs much more drafting - just a bit of polishing before I'd consider it ready for publishing - but you know what I mean. )
Also, are the chapters going to get longer, or is this more oriented toward an audience with a shorter attention span? I'm not complaining - I can get a chapter read and commented on in the short breaks I can grab - but I do wish the chapters were a bit longer. Maybe consult with people (other than myself) from
Thursday_Prompt - a writing community on this site that I always recommend - for feedback on how you can expand the chapters. (Here's hoping you don't get advice to put the equivalent of Bilbo's Birthday Party in a chapter like I did, or maybe hoping that you do. It's a long story, literally and figuratively.)
Also, are the chapters going to get longer, or is this more oriented toward an audience with a shorter attention span? I'm not complaining - I can get a chapter read and commented on in the short breaks I can grab - but I do wish the chapters were a bit longer. Maybe consult with people (other than myself) from
Thursday_Prompt - a writing community on this site that I always recommend - for feedback on how you can expand the chapters. (Here's hoping you don't get advice to put the equivalent of Bilbo's Birthday Party in a chapter like I did, or maybe hoping that you do. It's a long story, literally and figuratively.)
So, a few things are going on here:
1) FA isn't the first site I've posted this on. It was originally posted on Cohost (click here!) and has been ongoing for the past six months or so. At the time of posting, it currently has 24 published chapters, 7 "chapter interstitials" like this one, and a single stand-alone one-shot story in the setting. All in all, the story totals just a little over 50k words at the moment, which means that converting the markdown formatting of each original chapter to the BBCode formatting required to post on FA has been surprisingly time consuming.
2) With that in mind, the early chapters were on the shorter end. I was still developing my personal style as a writer and this beginning features a lot of really short segments as I found my footing. Eventually, the average chapter length does end up climbing to over 2k words, but Interstitial chapters like this one tend to be short and to the point, since they represent excerpts of writing in-universe and are supplemental to the chapters rather than being fully fledged chapters themselves.
3) Titles are absolutely something I struggle with here on FA. I never really had a use for individual chapter titles on Cohost, since making sure they were clearly numbered and indicating that they were part of a serialized story were the most important thing. But maybe that could change here? I'm not sure. Most stories I see posted do seem to just title their chapters/parts with numbers and call it a day, but I'm open to suggestions.
1) FA isn't the first site I've posted this on. It was originally posted on Cohost (click here!) and has been ongoing for the past six months or so. At the time of posting, it currently has 24 published chapters, 7 "chapter interstitials" like this one, and a single stand-alone one-shot story in the setting. All in all, the story totals just a little over 50k words at the moment, which means that converting the markdown formatting of each original chapter to the BBCode formatting required to post on FA has been surprisingly time consuming.
2) With that in mind, the early chapters were on the shorter end. I was still developing my personal style as a writer and this beginning features a lot of really short segments as I found my footing. Eventually, the average chapter length does end up climbing to over 2k words, but Interstitial chapters like this one tend to be short and to the point, since they represent excerpts of writing in-universe and are supplemental to the chapters rather than being fully fledged chapters themselves.
3) Titles are absolutely something I struggle with here on FA. I never really had a use for individual chapter titles on Cohost, since making sure they were clearly numbered and indicating that they were part of a serialized story were the most important thing. But maybe that could change here? I'm not sure. Most stories I see posted do seem to just title their chapters/parts with numbers and call it a day, but I'm open to suggestions.
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