I'd like everyone to know that I am working on the sequel to Sue and Jay's week in The Program. Anyone who has ever written knows that it takes time to finish. I had posed a question to my readers on how I should handle this -- finish it first and post it all at once, or at least like last time: a chapter a day. Or to post chapters as I finish them.
I am firmly in the first camp. There are a few reasons but the biggest is that a story changes as it's written. Sometimes you need to go back to the early chapters to accommodate the change. If the chapter has already been published then you can't do that.
Now, there is a way to update chapters here after they've been published but there are problems with that too. If you look and know what to look for you'll see that I have updated a few chapters of Sue and Jay NiS. But I hate doing that.
Now since I've heard from a few of you, what I'm hearing is that there is no clear consensus. Some want me to publish a chapter at a time before I finish the whole thing, others no. But the vote is skewed a bit for publishing early.
So, here is what I'm thinking. I want to get a few chapters, say five or six, complete and relatively unchanged, and then I'll publish one of them. So, I'll get to chapter five, say, and publish chapter one. Then when I finish chapter six, I'll publish chapter two. I'm not sure how well this will work so I reserve the right to amend this decision.
BTW, I'm still working on shoring up chapter three so I still have a ways to go. I have six written but the last four are very, very rough drafts and the majority of work on them is just beginning.
I must remind you that the schedule will not be very periodic. There may be a week or two between chapters, or a month or two, or maybe even more. I hate it when an author does that, so I'll do my best to keep on schedule but I can't promise anything.
So what do you all think? You can post in the comments to the story or message me directly. I love hearing from my readers.
And thank you to all that have already responded.
Cheer,
odco