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Just now I finished proofreading the lastest chapter of TFM, and I'm feeling a little down about it.
I'm happy with the chapter, don't get me wrong. But I'm unhappy with how long it took me to get it done.
This week has been chaos. I was only supposed to work three days. So I thought, 'hey, that'll give me plenty of time to go over chapters, finish off chapter 20 and blah blah blah.' Well, it didn't work out like that.
I ended up not only working a fourth day, but one of my days turned out to be a double. So on Friday, I worked from 5 A.M. to 9 p.m. Plus, I worked Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, which was the day I was supposed to have off. Tuesday was spent running around paying bills, shuffling money from one account to the other, and at the grocery store. It, literally, ate up my whole day.
To make matters worse, I was given a promotion I am not happy about. I am now training to be a charge nurse, and I don't feel I'm prepared for it.
How does this relate to the Murder Saga? Time. That story was built on the fact that I had all day to spend on it. That is not true anymore.
The thing that makes the Murder Saga different from the Running With The Moon Series, is that all of the stories in MS tie into one another. They all relate to each other, and all of the stories are built upon each other. You can NOT start anywhere you want to. You HAVE to begin at the beginning, and work your way up. Running With The Moon is not like that. Each story is going to be independent of the other. Yes, they are going to have the same theme, and things that happened and characters in previous stories are going to be brought up in later ones, but each of Duo's adventures is going to be separate from the other. That is why it's so much faster to write. I don't have to double check myself to see if it conflicts with laws or rules that I made three years before.
Also with the Murder series, not all of the questions in each story are answered. Many questions aren't answered until the story after it, but then new questions arise from the answers of the old. That is why I am so proud of this series; it is truly complex.
But that poses a new problem for me. The complexity. I have added so many details and twists, that some of these things I have forgotten. I get emails all the time that tell me, not nicely, to get my ass in gear or that I'm taking too god damn long. I also get emails about things that I haven't answered. Why? In all honesty, because I've forgotten that I asked the question.
I am truly sorry that it is taking me so long. I really am. And I'm also sorry about facts or things that I've brought up and didn't finish, and false starts. But at the same time, to those giving me such a hard time about it, piss off! This series is already five years old. That's how long I've been working on it, and at the rate I'm going, I might be another year finishing it. I also plan on revising it, and who knows how long that will take. So guess what? The shit is going to be a while.
I love the ones sticking with it, and I know who you are, (Kristen, Butterbrains, Sandra, Haruka Hana and *hugs* Valeria Wellnitz) and I love you for it. I hope I don't disappoint. But to everyone, like I said earlier, the series is already five years old. I've stuck with it this long, you've stuck with it for this long, so what's another year or two? I'm not going anywhere, and neither is the fic.
Posted by Karen
at 22:27 CDT
Updated: Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:35 CDT
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Updated: Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:35 CDT
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