I just want to know how it is that you write these ridiculously long fics all the time? My PL fic ended up at 100k once it was fully beta read and revised (it had reached 105k but then I rewrote the entire epilogue chopping it from 6k to 2k). I feel exhausted now that it's done. Grant you I wrote it in marathon chunks between illness and injury but still.
BTW, your PL is in my queue to be read but as I was working on mine up to the very last second I am just starting to read everyone else's PL. Did your artist ever get up and running? I have to confess, I'd have been lost without my artist, she was my rock from the minute she stepped in (which was about 29k into the thing) right up to that last second before posting!
For the first time, I cursed AO3 to the 9 Hells and was grateful for LJ's more reliable coding system. Even if I had to split it into 13 parts plus an addendum and Master Post, it actually proved far less difficult to code and embed the art at LJ. Linking each chapter to the next was tedious but not that bad, if I hadn't been frantic to get it done instantly (cuz I had just barely finished posting the first-part-last Master post when it was 11pm and I was forced to make the post to the PL page to meet the deadline. Honestly? We were revising the fic up till 9pm that night and while my partner in crime was whipping the shit outta the last parts of Part3, I was making dummy copies of the first two parts (8 posts) so I could then just copy and paste them into the correct, reverse order for the post. Technically when I went live, you could only access part 1. Yikes!And of course, someone was waiting on my post cuz they knew it was coming and before I could start linking the chapters I was already getting messages: Where's part 2? LOL, needless to say I was up til 6am finishing up linking and tagging the LJ chapters and fighting with AO3 to accept my codes and stop inserting their own insane ones every time I tried to edit anything. So that was Saturday into Sunday morning and I spent most of Sunday on my face! BUT...I got it done :D
My hat is doubly off to you for rattling off these super long bits of fic like they are nothing.
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BTW, your PL is in my queue to be read but as I was working on mine up to the very last second I am just starting to read everyone else's PL. Did your artist ever get up and running? I have to confess, I'd have been lost without my artist, she was my rock from the minute she stepped in (which was about 29k into the thing) right up to that last second before posting!
For the first time, I cursed AO3 to the 9 Hells and was grateful for LJ's more reliable coding system. Even if I had to split it into 13 parts plus an addendum and Master Post, it actually proved far less difficult to code and embed the art at LJ. Linking each chapter to the next was tedious but not that bad, if I hadn't been frantic to get it done instantly (cuz I had just barely finished posting the first-part-last Master post when it was 11pm and I was forced to make the post to the PL page to meet the deadline. Honestly? We were revising the fic up till 9pm that night and while my partner in crime was whipping the shit outta the last parts of Part3, I was making dummy copies of the first two parts (8 posts) so I could then just copy and paste them into the correct, reverse order for the post. Technically when I went live, you could only access part 1. Yikes!And of course, someone was waiting on my post cuz they knew it was coming and before I could start linking the chapters I was already getting messages: Where's part 2? LOL, needless to say I was up til 6am finishing up linking and tagging the LJ chapters and fighting with AO3 to accept my codes and stop inserting their own insane ones every time I tried to edit anything. So that was Saturday into Sunday morning and I spent most of Sunday on my face! BUT...I got it done :D
My hat is doubly off to you for rattling off these super long bits of fic like they are nothing.