Hey folks, this is a question for those of you following my Maquis.
As you may or may not know, a few months ago I had a hard disc failure, and for a couple of months was working off backups. I did manage to get that disc recovered, and in fact nothing I posted to SoL in the meantime had changed more than cosmetically.
However. I was going through some of the recovered files and last night found an old chapter, one that I started a long long time ago and then somehow forgot about. A chapter that should have gone in at about chapter 12 or 13. It still isn't quite finished, but can't sensibly just be rewritten to come in this late in the story.
Something and someone that is referenced in this chapter was referenced in an earlier chapter, but then hasn't been seen since, but is also referenced, albeit not to any great depth, in a couple of future chapters, including the chapter that was due to be posted in fourteen days time. This missing chapter, a fairly short chapter, ties that all together.
So. My question to you good people. Should I:
1) Just dump it and make minor changes to future chapters so that the missing chapter is not necessary.
2) Insert the chapter as Chapter 12 (or 13 - that's my decision and I'll see which is best), and then re number and repost all subsequent chapters.
3) Post it as the next chapter, though I suspect if I do lots of people will then jump down my throat saying 'this is too late' and 'why wasn't this done much earlier'.
Option 1 will be the quickest, but it does mean I lose a nice little thread that started in Chapter 3 or 4 (IIRC), and just 'dangles'.
Option 2 is my preferred option, but will involve a lot more work. As I understand it, I can't just renumber chapters, I have to resubmit them, so if I do this option I'll also add some tweaks and corrections to the renumbered, resubmitted, chapters.
I don't really like option 3, so I'll only do it if >90% of the votes are for this option.
Tell me.
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