.post of random: space/artword, poll, Finn

[aesc]

Yes, post of random!

The next challenge is up at artword, and is ASTRONOMY, inspired by NASA's photos of the day. In the manner of cosmic matter into a black hole, I have been sucked into the archives and have spent a lot of time wishing for a spaceship, and remembering when I wanted to be an astronomer.

Living in central Florida as I did, NASA was a big part of my life--lots of field trips, and shuttles or rockets going up were always news. My first clear memory of joy or tragedy beyond my family was when Challenger exploded in 1986; I can very clearly recall standing in the kitchen, watching the shuttle break apart on our tiny TV, and realizing this was something way past my previous experiences. My dream for the future is to live in a place with no light pollution, and a telescope. (Which explains a bit of why I wrote this for mcsmooch.)

Speaking of writing, as dogeared knows quite well, I'm working on the Epic Gay Seafaring Love of Viking!John and Monk!Rodney. It clocks in at 27,000 words, and with the entire plot roughed out, I'm on pace to finish it in a few weeks/a month. A couple parts are completely finished already. I've never posted something this ginormous before (BigBang doesn't count), so I was wondering how people like really long fic posted. Hence, POLL:

[Poll #1298150]

Also, I just took this and I love my silly black dog:



dogeared points out that Finn is asking "Whut r u doin?"

Comments

[trobadora]

Yay, Viking!John! \o/

(I really dislike it when people post finished stories in installments. With a WIP I don't mind - hey, more story sooner, I'm not going to complain! But if it's finished, handing it out piecemeal seems ... manipulative to me. Possibly because I like to check out the ending of a story first, and this deprives me of that. *g* Obviously I could just wait until it's finished posting, but who has that kind of patience? Not me ...)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Heh, it occurred to me recently that I've been working on this on-and-off for about a year, and it really needs to be done. So I'm disciplining myself in a way I couldn't quite manage with sgabigbang, and it seems to be going well so far :D

I've seen long fics posted in all sorts of ways... I'm hesitant to post viking!boys as a WIP (although technically I've already done that, with a couple of snippets up), just because I've developed a dislike of WIP-posting over the past couple of years :D There have been a couple of long fics posted recently that have been posted in part(s)-per-day, so people can sit down and read manageable chunks, or just save for the end or whatever, but I've never really thought about how people might prefer to have long fics posted--I'm a "I'll take it as I can get it" sort of person :D

[trobadora]

See, the thing is, what a "manageable chunk" is will differ for each person. One person's manageable chunk is another's tiny snippet, and if someone really can't read a story in one go, what's to stop them from dividing it on their own into whatever chunks they feel comfortable reading in one go?

Ahem. Sorry. You may have noticed this is a topic I feel strongly about. ;-)

(As for the WIP issue - a lot of people don't like to read WIPs, so I understand why someone wouldn't want to post a story that way. I've never minded myself - unfinished stories don't bother me, it's only the withholding of an already extant ending that gets to me. It's like - until it's finished, the ending hasn't happened, so I don't need to know it, but once it has ... Yes, I know I'm weird. *g*)