I'd always intended what I was posting to be a first draft -- only, I thought I would finish it in a year or two (ha!) and then revise it for submission to PhoenixSong. (I've now rethought the submission plan, since I'm not so active on that site anymore.) But I thought it would be more fun to post as I went and collect feedback. I just didn't think the first-draft-ness of this would actually block me from finishing the story as it has, rrgh.
This is actually the only chapter fic I have ever written (aside from maybe a couple of two-parters). I just work much better with one-shots, given my time constraints and attention span. (That strategy seems to be working, as I recently did a summed word count on my main HP project, a series of related one-shots, and it's at 86,000...) I knew I was taking risks posting "Order" as a WIP, but I did want to see how it would go -- and the interim feedback has definitely been encouraging and helpful.
Some of my (one-shot) WIPs date from fall of 2006!
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This is actually the only chapter fic I have ever written (aside from maybe a couple of two-parters). I just work much better with one-shots, given my time constraints and attention span. (That strategy seems to be working, as I recently did a summed word count on my main HP project, a series of related one-shots, and it's at 86,000...) I knew I was taking risks posting "Order" as a WIP, but I did want to see how it would go -- and the interim feedback has definitely been encouraging and helpful.
Some of my (one-shot) WIPs date from fall of 2006!