Butterfree
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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?
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
[04/03/2009 20:31:37]
