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palladias comments on Open thread, 7-14 July 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: palladias 09 July 2014 05:15:56PM 6 points [-]

I'd recommend writing five or so chapters and then posting a link. The fic as you're posting it just feels meta for the sake of meta (charitably, because your narrative is still winding up). I'd be more likely to read/upvote if plot were already happening.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 09 July 2014 10:31:29PM *  4 points [-]

That makes sense; to be honest, I generally don't have a high opinion of narratives and mostly view them as excuses for authors to write about characters and settings and spew insights and jokes. (I also mean this in the metaphorical post-structuralist sense.) This might be why my fiction is so much worse than my nonfiction writing.