Chapter 4 of The Heart's Landscape completed.

[tocryabout]

"The Ring of Gyges", voilà. Features a much-overhauled Snowbird (no, I am not writing a blond-haired Inuit demigoddess, actually), opera, status epilepticus, and a fucking soulpatch.

[Read from the beginning]

I'm hella glad to get this one done. For some reason it was absolutely exhausting.


P.S. In reading this entry on reader entitlement (linked on metafandom), I'm a little shocked at how many people have blanket "no WIPs" policies. I understand how frustrating it is to start reading and have someone stop writing, but still, I find WIPs and serials to be the most entertaining part of online fandom. I like the soapiness of following a story as it unfolds, rather than bingeing on it all at once. More to the point (for me), I like writing that way -- there is no accountability like other readers and the instant gratification of feedback. I doubt I'd have finished Aphanes if I hadn't been posting it chapter-by-chapter.

Anyway, a little discouraging to see that so many people are probably skipping my stuff out of hand because it's not finished yet.

Comments

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Life is a WIP, people. Get over yourselves. There are no guarantees for any last chapters.

I totally agree with you. It is, in a big way, the encouragement I received from chapter 1 of Days of Becoming (My current -- and just renamed -- X-novel) that has allowed me to complete chapter 2. People who won't read WIPs are, perhaps, shirking their duties as the bellows that keeps the fire hot.

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

I had missed that when you posted it, thanks for reminding me. It's fucking sweet.

I would feel incredibly guilty if I couldn't finish something I started, which is the main reason posting serially works for me. And I still think longingly of Minisinoo's Heyoka series -- I understand she used her material for Grail, but I love Gracie!

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Feel free to use it!