advancing the "pieces" one "slot" at a time
really straightforward
[some bullshit]
[some bullshit]
seth says that mmos aren't hard (does the "for'n MMO") thing
because i have some idea about climaxing and pacing the scene, defer, not until 3rd time
but consecutively moved up
absolutely by-and-large think that this is good
one concern: fast
slow readers --> I care about these people. "slow" can be a really bad word; all i can say is i don't mean it that way in this context. i mean it in the way of...the 'slow' food movement, like that. seriously! care and build. this reader i care about, a lot, and if i lose her with this...that's bad. i watch out for that.
the other reader is the inattentive reader. the tl;dr internet reader. i have, on a few occasions--not often--been confronted with a reader who missed an important aspect of the story or hint that i felt that i'd dropped (and, to be fair, who was not complaining to me about this; in some cases even who'd reached out cuz they like the story in genearl, but they'd missed some big thing). and i've a few times literally heard the phrase, "well, i didn't read y'know all the words." one reader used the term "load-bearing", meaning ascertaining whether a given paragraph contained crucial information that advanced A-plot, I guess.
this reader i care about 0, not at all. if you want to scan my story the way you scan (for example) a blog post; or an article someone forwarded you; or your 400th page out of 900 pages of reading for int'l institutions seminar in your second year of law school -- I'm serious, that is totally fine by me. But I literally don't feel responsible for your reading experience at all. It's like saying to a chef "i wasn't sure about the food. oh, the fork i used? it was made out of shit. why? does that matter?" tl;dr all u lyk, fam - 4 real. u do u. i'm not doing me 4 u, tho. r0ll on.
really straightforward
[some bullshit]
[some bullshit]
seth says that mmos aren't hard (does the "for'n MMO") thing
because i have some idea about climaxing and pacing the scene, defer, not until 3rd time
but consecutively moved up
absolutely by-and-large think that this is good
one concern: fast
slow readers --> I care about these people. "slow" can be a really bad word; all i can say is i don't mean it that way in this context. i mean it in the way of...the 'slow' food movement, like that. seriously! care and build. this reader i care about, a lot, and if i lose her with this...that's bad. i watch out for that.
the other reader is the inattentive reader. the tl;dr internet reader. i have, on a few occasions--not often--been confronted with a reader who missed an important aspect of the story or hint that i felt that i'd dropped (and, to be fair, who was not complaining to me about this; in some cases even who'd reached out cuz they like the story in genearl, but they'd missed some big thing). and i've a few times literally heard the phrase, "well, i didn't read y'know all the words." one reader used the term "load-bearing", meaning ascertaining whether a given paragraph contained crucial information that advanced A-plot, I guess.
this reader i care about 0, not at all. if you want to scan my story the way you scan (for example) a blog post; or an article someone forwarded you; or your 400th page out of 900 pages of reading for int'l institutions seminar in your second year of law school -- I'm serious, that is totally fine by me. But I literally don't feel responsible for your reading experience at all. It's like saying to a chef "i wasn't sure about the food. oh, the fork i used? it was made out of shit. why? does that matter?" tl;dr all u lyk, fam - 4 real. u do u. i'm not doing me 4 u, tho. r0ll on.