Chapter length problems
16 July 2014 06:52 pmI think I've finished my two-chapter Love Never Dies fanfic, or at least achieved the scene I originally envisaged as the end: although I'm not at all sure it's going to come out as two chapters.
I've now got six pages in the first scene and twelve in the second half of that, coupled to about sixteen (so many erasures it's hard to be sure) for the original 'second chapter' and another nine for the supposedly brief homecoming sequence and reveal -- mainly because I ended up covering a considerably longer period in the latter than I'd intended. In terms of size this looks more like two-and-a-half chapters, unless I have the second chapter miles longer than the first... which is already (at a very rough estimate) nearly three thousand words long.
I'm rather tempted to post it instead as another three-chapter story with a short third chapter, since the final scene is completely separate from the rest of the 'second chapter', albeit extremely bitsy in itself. I never was much good at writing transitory scenes, and this one has to run across at least four different locations...
I also think I'm going to have to go back and harmonise/revise some of the stuff about Gustave, since my thoughts on his relationship with Raoul at various ages seem to have varied quite a bit before settling back into the original idea that his position was 'usurped' at a later date -- though this may involve losing bits I was fond of :-(
I've now got six pages in the first scene and twelve in the second half of that, coupled to about sixteen (so many erasures it's hard to be sure) for the original 'second chapter' and another nine for the supposedly brief homecoming sequence and reveal -- mainly because I ended up covering a considerably longer period in the latter than I'd intended. In terms of size this looks more like two-and-a-half chapters, unless I have the second chapter miles longer than the first... which is already (at a very rough estimate) nearly three thousand words long.
I'm rather tempted to post it instead as another three-chapter story with a short third chapter, since the final scene is completely separate from the rest of the 'second chapter', albeit extremely bitsy in itself. I never was much good at writing transitory scenes, and this one has to run across at least four different locations...
I also think I'm going to have to go back and harmonise/revise some of the stuff about Gustave, since my thoughts on his relationship with Raoul at various ages seem to have varied quite a bit before settling back into the original idea that his position was 'usurped' at a later date -- though this may involve losing bits I was fond of :-(