It is with frustration and embarassment that I write this.
I have a story for the Val. Day Contest. Due to my current work schedule and some personal problems (the usual; exorcism of alien tapeworms from my spleen, the sudden appearance of 5 extra subconscious personalities [each with the name Eunice] and a very tragic hangnail), I am finishing it late. LATE LATE LATE. It's probably going to be closer to 30K words than 20K, so it needs to be cut into parts like my last story. And there's only 6 days left to post it. Drat.
I wanted to post a chapter every other day, like Cruiser Lake. But that's blown out of the water; it's probably gonna need 5 or 6 chapters. And I'm currently still in the middle of writing the last (or next to last?) chapter.
So, I'm breaking my own rule. The one that says I'll never post a story until it is fully written. When I get home tonight, I'll post part one of Heart. Trans. Plant. and try to finish the last part in time. I'm such a hippo-critter.
So please don't. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Hate me because I put these stupid rules up and then end up breaking them. Like now, when I broke my rule of never saying "hippo-critter" (though the mental picture that conjures may be pretty close to my phenotype).
I appreciate you all. What a good influence being a BCTS'er has had on my life.
**Sigh**
Comments
If you need 1 extra day to finish
I can extend the deadline to 11:59 pm Pacific time for February 26th instead of the 25th? If you need the day, I'll extend the submission date for you.
Sephrena
Extensions
Just don't move the extension date to the 29th of Feb, that is not for 3 more years :)
I think I'll just make it
but if I see I won't, I'll call. Thanks Seph!
Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
-Thomas Shadwell
I have a question...
Why not wait until you have finished the story and then post it all in one piece?
with love,
HER
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
Because
I myself find it easier to read a huge story in parts rather than as one big lump. If I see a huge 30,000 word post in one lump, I'm actually less likely to read it than if I post it in sections on progressive days.
But that's me. I think some (not all) others are like that.
Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
-Thomas Shadwell
I find it's best
I find it's best to post two thirds of a story and wait a few years to post the rest. Let's people catch their breath.
Watch out there, Admiral
With your tongue planted so deep in your cheek like that, you're bound to bite it badly!
And BTW, BCC continues to be AWESOME
**SIGH**
Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
-Thomas Shadwell