I understand the point both of you are making. It's really a matter of personal preference. This last story was completed in a couple of weeks, but my longer stories have taken months. I suppose I could have gotten some feedback if I'd posted them piecemeal as I went, but I just don't like to put a story out until I'm done with it, but that's just me. So, anyway, now I'm going to post them piecemeal after they're done, mainly to reduce the size of the initial posting to something under 50k.

Although I usually know where a story is headed, I sometimes create a character and follow him around to see what he does with no idea where the story is going It occasionally does call for drastic changes in prior sections of the story. Does anyone else do this or am I out in left field here?


Originally posted by YNHumiliator


It also lets you know if your story is actually arousing i.e. you've got it right! Not that that may be important to some authors - but it is to me.

I agree, but primarily the story has to be arousing to me and I can only hope it works for others as well. The problem with depending on readers for affirmation is that if you don't get it right, then you've blown it and there's probably no point in posting subsequent chapters because no one will read them. In that regard, there's not a whole lot of difference between posting a complete story and posting one serially.