Commentary -- After Life (Chapter 10)
Jan. 4th, 2009 03:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
parallax23Chapter 10: Leave Me Alone
It's 3am, what am I still doing up? I'm insane. Well, actually I'm bored and can't sleep, which is pretty much the story of my life...
This chapter and Chapter 11, which is still untyped, came while I was trying to write Wake Me Up... It stayed put until Just Another 48 Hours was completed. I guess Chapter 10 really did come along and save the story after all?
So I'm just looking at the alerts in my email about the latest chapter of After Life I posted. My major problem with this chapter was being nervous about posting it. I just tied up Just Another 48 Hours, and it really upped my number of readers. (I know talking about my stats is lame and narcissistic but it's driving me crazy, so here we are.) After Life didn't get much love and I felt skittish about posting the next portion, fearing that I'd disappoint anyone who had finally decided to check my stuff out.
I had decided that I could use my underachiever to do whatever I wanted, and went an unusual route that I hadn't seen done before. A slight tweaking of the typical M/A formula, nothing profound. I did end up posting it, of course. It was a fiendishly evil cliffhanger I might add, that I didn't know I had in me.
The reaction to the story wasn't overwhelming or anything. It's seen worse days, trust me. The style isn't as refined as I would have preferred, because I was stupid enough to start posting it without revising it. But a few reviews surprised me.
I feel like I'm trying to live up to Just Another 48 Hours now. I don't think it's my best work (ironically my favorite stories are usually least popular) but having to work on the sequel makes it hang over my head even more. Oh thank my lucky stars, I'm getting drowsy. I'm out.
It's 3am, what am I still doing up? I'm insane. Well, actually I'm bored and can't sleep, which is pretty much the story of my life...
This chapter and Chapter 11, which is still untyped, came while I was trying to write Wake Me Up... It stayed put until Just Another 48 Hours was completed. I guess Chapter 10 really did come along and save the story after all?
So I'm just looking at the alerts in my email about the latest chapter of After Life I posted. My major problem with this chapter was being nervous about posting it. I just tied up Just Another 48 Hours, and it really upped my number of readers. (I know talking about my stats is lame and narcissistic but it's driving me crazy, so here we are.) After Life didn't get much love and I felt skittish about posting the next portion, fearing that I'd disappoint anyone who had finally decided to check my stuff out.
I had decided that I could use my underachiever to do whatever I wanted, and went an unusual route that I hadn't seen done before. A slight tweaking of the typical M/A formula, nothing profound. I did end up posting it, of course. It was a fiendishly evil cliffhanger I might add, that I didn't know I had in me.
The reaction to the story wasn't overwhelming or anything. It's seen worse days, trust me. The style isn't as refined as I would have preferred, because I was stupid enough to start posting it without revising it. But a few reviews surprised me.
I feel like I'm trying to live up to Just Another 48 Hours now. I don't think it's my best work (ironically my favorite stories are usually least popular) but having to work on the sequel makes it hang over my head even more. Oh thank my lucky stars, I'm getting drowsy. I'm out.