04/03/2009: Chapter Split?
You may or may not have noticed that, as my signature says, I'm on the twenty-eighth page of chapter 46. Now it really is just a couple of paragraphs until the start of the second battle (those in-between scenes actually are done, I swear!), and the chapter should more or less end with the end of the battle. So what shall we predict? About thirty-six or thirty-seven pages in all, if we assume the battles turn out about equal in length? In any case, the chapter is already officially the longest chapter ever of this fic (chapter 37 was twenty-seven pages), and the rest will just put it into the crazy category. Amusingly, if the chapter were to be thirty-six pages, it would make for two pretty lengthy chapters even if I split it in half.That's more than just a hypothetical - I've seriously been considering splitting up the chapter, and the only real reason I haven't done so already and just posted the first half is my obsessive-compulsiveness about chapter 50. What's worse is that I've been increasingly realizing that actually the chapter I currently have earmarked as chapter 48 (though not chapter 49) would be a fine chapter 50 - in the IALCOTN I really might just both make chapter 45 part II into chapter 46, the first half of chapter 46 chapter 47, the second half chapter 48, the currently planned chapter 47 chapter 49, and the aforementioned chapter 48 into chapter 50. It would not even break that little "five-chapter arc" pattern that I talked about sometime way back, since I've realized that the currently planned chapters 49-53 kind of make such a five-chapter arc.
Of course, now that I've convinced myself so thoroughly of the merits of doing this in the IALCOTN, I am starting to feel it really ought to be that way in the ILCOE. So do you think I should retroactively split chapter 45 up again (making my favorite chapter beginning ever into an actual chapter beginning again!), put up the first part of "chapter 46" now as chapter 47 and then continue with the latter half of it as chapter 48?
COMMENTARY DONE
Comments
Scyther (04/03/2009 20:55:24)
I acually… don't think so. Continue what your doig, if you please.
SlowCrow (04/03/2009 21:07:02)
Well, I say that you should go ahead and do it. You've gone too far in thinking about this to just say “screw it” and scrap your plan. Plus, your OCD will simply not allow you to do so, we all know that much. :P
(Having a part II of a chapter laying around wouldn't make much sense anyway,)
opaltiger (04/03/2009 22:08:32)
super chapter! SUPER CHAPTER!
ShadowDusk (04/04/2009 01:32:20)
you lost me after the first paragraph?
Lugia (04/04/2009 01:35:37)
-confused-
Um… just finish it all soon =3
Butterfree (04/04/2009 01:37:37)
What is confusing about it? @_@ Want half of "chapter 46" posted now as a separate chapter or not?
Although technically, you're too late; I've already decided to do it and am about to put it up.