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Tomorrow, assuming that I don't have to re-edit everything again, I'll be trying something that maybe hasn't been tried before on this site. Let's just say that I'll be posting chapters from two stories at the same time. I might say more but you'll have to tickle me into submission first.
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Hmm...
Waves menacing feather...??
HeHeHe
Like I tease my kids with, "Im not touching you." as I wave my fingers menacingly close to the target.
With those with open eyes the world reads like a book
Two postings?
If I understand what you said correctly, didn't Bailey do that yonks ago?
I went outside once. The graphics weren' that great.
…and Others, IIRC
In fact, I think Saless actually posted two versions of the same incident, in Venus Cursed and one of its side stories, from different POVs.
And as I recall, Karin Bishop started here by updating three stories daily.
(Actually, if one posts two stories less than 24 hours apart, they'll show up on the same day somewhere…)
I seem to recall that doing so is discouraged, since it can potentially throw someone else's story off the front page prematurely. But I don't know whether there's a rule against it.
Eric
The plan ....
Two of my stories have a converging storyline so the same story can be seen from two perspectives and two different sets of characters.
Yes, Amethyst has done that.
Yes, Amethyst has done that. Past a few chapters in in both stories, the main characters of Trial and Heiress and Bloodlines are friends, and many incidents are shown from both their perspectives.
I see what you mean
I am another who has posted two episodes of different stories on the same day, but not when they converge. My 'Sisters', for example, is being posted a long time after 'Cold Feet'.
Story scheduling
My normal arrangement is to post 2-3 chapters of Tammy a week and 3-4 of Unaccounted Gains, alternating them - but it doesn't always end up like that and I get gaps in the posting due to RL intervening. In this case I'll post both stories in the same 24 hour period but go back to alternate posting on Weds/Thurs. The point about the two stories is that they cover exactly the same day and the same major event - the plots have been building to this point.
I had a look earlier, the front page stories currently go back a whole week and my stories, seeing as they're serials, would simply replace the previous chapters on the front page so they would not be displacing any other stories effectively.
I was aware of other authors' stories covering the same locations/characters but they weren't usually posted simultaneously but hadn't seen two converged stories at the same time. The convergance in my case rolls on for a few chapters - oooh I'm giving too much away!
Underway
The cross-over is going to run for a few chapters but each story can still be read independently, with one chapter a day (or so) starting Wed 17 with Chapter 10 of Tammy's Christmas, followed by Chapter 28 of Unaccounted Gains on Thursday and so on,
