Postby dreadnaught3200 » Sat Sep 04, 2010 11:05 pm
I'm with you on this one. I always finish my stories entirely before I start posting them, but I usually post them in sections. I find that stories (or TUG stories at least) are more digestible if they're separated into a few parts. In an internet setting if a story is too long its easy for the audience to lose interest and not read the story to its conclusion. More importantly if someone is enjoying the story it builds up suspense if you leave it in sections, that's why TV shows always try to have a cliffhanger or a twist before they cut to commercials.
There's a permanent tension in music isn't there? On one hand you have three chords, you know, four four and three chords. Then there's the people like me, who say "Well, why don't we add a fourth chord and put it in five four?" - Bill Bruford