Hey Cassie, want some cheese with that whine?
The wantastic Ms. Claire has posted that OMFG! People don't know she has updated her stories!!!111

Continue on down the self-wank and you'll learn that her book is "due" in October.
Anyone want to take bets on this shit being published by a vanity press?

Anyway, there's wank of the pet-friend variety in the comments:

1. Mouse who says "these people aren't true fans"

2. Another mouse asks, "will your Original Fiction be as popular as your fanfic?"

3. Huge discussion throughout the FIVE PAGES of comments discussing chapter size. Have fun wading through it.

4. Don't take it away! I know you're mad!

Aww...fuck me. That's enough to get you started. This is Cassie, afterall. She just brings the wank.


Every time I go to my schnoogle review boards or check my email, I find to my frustration that there are a zillion people who have no idea that DV15 part two ever came out and are complaining that I have not updated since last November. Now granted I don't update all that often, and I understand and accept being yelled at for being a lazy b****. But it makes me feel bad as in the cases of the reviewers, I have no way to let them know that the second half of the chapter was posted months ago. My guess is they are just checking my author frontpage, not seeing anything visibly new, and scarpering off in high dudgeon.

I have been considering finishing out the rest of DV in short chapters. It would let me update more often and I wouldn't be losing people through the cracks, so to speak. The downside would be that each chapter would be less satisfying as a whole, because it would by necessity be shorter, move things along less, and address less plot threads. But I hope that would be mitigated for readers by the fact that the next bit would be along sooner.

I am finding I am needing to adjust the time I can give to fanfic in various careful ways since my original fiction book is due in October. (Every time I tell anyone in RL this they make this little gasping noise and then say uncovincingly "I'm sure you can get it done!" Then they edge away.) I really do want to finish DV and this seemed to me to be a possible solution as the pressure to finish a shorter chapter more often is less overwhelming than the pressure to finish one of those 65k word chapters I usually put out.

(It's not a question of "rushing", either way. I write DV in chronological order - I would be writing at exactly the same rate, it's just a question of cutting longer chapters into shorter segments, or not.)