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Now, as for the numbered chapters: It's because I forgot in the beginning, went back to number them when I noticed but was then frustrated because it took such a long-ass time so now there's numbers missing somewhere in the middle :blob_sweat: I also do indicate the end of a volume but you have...

Ah, where do I start answering? :blob_hmm: I really want a reply option for these posts ... or maybe just more characters :blobrofl: Anyway, don't worry about my time. I'd rather talk with you about writing than procrastinate with something else so this is actually great. Because let's be...

Looking back now with the experience of two more years, I probably should have known that I shouldn't take the feedback of 'things take too long' too seriously when the same person who brought it up also complained about the lack of a real MC. I mean, it's a multiple PoV story for a reason...

The arc is only between 20-30 chapters so not that long but that's still a lot if you cry every single one of them. So I dropped some extra chapters on the weekends. Don't regret that because it was done for me and the readers that genuinely like the story. Not to appease those that don't care...

Nowadays, I'm doing both the revised and the original version at only one chapter a day. The volumes have gotten longer (since I don't cut anymore) and the schedule is reduced. So, difficult arcs can be daunting for readers. I had a really tragic one just a few weeks ago where I felt the need to...

To add on to that: I'm saying this especially because I was posting a lot. 90k words a month isn't little. The first volume originally had 120k words, the second one came down to only 90k because of the cuts while it's 190k in the revised one. So I would have finished the whole volume in less...

I honestly can't tell you what the right way of posting that part of your story is. I just know that no matter how I would have posted OMF back then, I still would have lost that batch of readers because it just wasn't their story. I think readers that genuinely like a story will stay around...

I think there was absolutely nothing wrong with the story per se because this is just how OMF is. Complicated world, complicated lore, complicated character constellation, several major plotlines. There's a reason why there will be 10+ volumes. I think the problem was rather that I had the wrong...

A reader that is only in for the BL part and HEA will 100% be disappointed. Because it won't happen fast. Like, there are three main couples and in volume 7-2, only one of them has actually married. The third one is more or less completely split up (the one with the fiance I mentioned in the...

Like, there's a dagger introduced in volume 1 which we'll find out originally came in a set and the second one will play an important part in the plot later. Then there's getting to know the curse on the immortal races that influences everyone, is the reason behind the trials and why the daggers...

All of that is stuff the readers need to know to understand the later parts of the series. Like, I think you saw the compendium I put out? Just the relationships between characters get confusing fast so they kind of need to be well-known by the end of volume 1 with the others slowly being...

I would say the main problem was that OMF is overall a slow burn novel. The two main characters don't get together until volume 3 (in the revised version), some of the other MCs are introduced even later (think volume 5 or 6 but I'm not quite there yet with the revision), and volume 1 is more of...

Back then, I was posting 3 chapters a day, one is at about 1k words, so that was 21k words of OMF a week and about 90k words a month. The volumes are slightly longer so it'd take me about 1-1.5 months to finish one volume. If somebody thinks writing half a novel for them a month is too slow, I...

Ah, you're not clinging and I don't mind saying more about it. Let me just see how to wrap this in these less than 420 characters messages or whatever the limit is :blob_hmm: Short answer: No. Elaboration follows ...

Mn ... :blob_hmm: You mean you are absolutely floored by my brilliant ability and in awe of this masterpiece of a title? :blob_aww:

*ahem* Behold my awesome ability to title novels: "The Onion-Cutting Ninja's Secret Crush" :blob_ninja:

lol @Queenfisher. It's my current novel. The general plot is a ninja falls in love with a food streamer and registers for a cooking show to win a date with him. In the weeks before the show, his 20 subordinates come up with a masterplan which includes - but is in part sabotaged - by their family...