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fufaraw ([personal profile] fufaraw) wrote in [personal profile] alexisjane 2015-04-07 05:12 pm (UTC)

With my first BB I used the same small chapters, and wound up consolidating them into multi-chapter chunks to post on LJ. Which seemed pointless, once it was posted. Since then, I've put in soft chapter breaks while writing, and once the fic is finished, broken the whole of it down to chunks near post limit, and then gone back in to find logical chapter breaks close to the break for posting limit.

I still use spacing or punctuation graphics (triple asterisks) to indicate a break for time, or emotional beat, or what would be a chapter break. It's a sort of subliminal chapter break to the reader, but leaves the actual text to post close to the post limit.

I post to LJ first, so in posting to AO3, I maintain the same chapter breaks, soft breaks, etc.

As far as reading goes, I'm not really good at multifandom, especially with an open canon. It's not a prejudice against, but a preference, and the way my mind works. However, I don't have the same problem with OCs and original fiction.

As far as your BB draft, if you have 20K, I wouldn't worry. For the draft, you need *A* beginning, *A* middle, and *An* end. Any of those *could* change or modify by your final draft.

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