Regarding completeness—my first book is complete, and the second is in the middle. I had a hard time enforcing consistency across the first book and making sure that there are no contradictions in different places once the main plot was there, so I am a bit hesitant to release chapters of the second book before it is finished, because I fear I will need to rewrite some parts. But yes, I have like 10 chapters ready for weekly posts let’s say.
Welcome to writing fiction that aspires to ratfic territory. I have faced massive headaches when it came to resolving dangling plot threads, or finding a way to make a plot where even a rational actor wouldn’t see every twist coming a mile in advance. But it’s a good challenge, I hate it when other writers take the easy way out by making characters selectively intelligent or depict genius in absurd ways, so I held myself to higher standards.
(Maybe I should have plotted things out in advance better than I did, but I don’t find that fun, and I write for fun)
If you intend to act soon, then I strongly advise starting with the complete book. Alternatively, you can post both at once, and work on the latter till you catch up, hopefully before you run out of scheduled posts.
>Dr. Adat Sen has been having a bad week.
>You think you have it good, after the sudden appearance of superpowers into the world revolutionizes everything. Especially when your wife is a one in a billion teleporter, it’s a cushy gig right until the draft notice arrives and she’s forced into a war of apocalyptic proportions under alien suns.
>The same star system where, every day, hundreds of trillions of dollars and the lives of millions of normal humans and metahumans alike are destroyed in a meat grinder, barely managing to hold the line against the K3 civilization that a superpowered research experiment accidentally brought to our doorstep.
>Let’s not forget that his promised pay raise didn’t come through, or that someone’s out for him to the extent of trying to trying to fry his brain with a Basilisk hack. Who would have thought that being a a cyborg psychiatrist for the UN could be this stressful?
>Then there’s the matter of publish or perish, handling nasty cognitohazards on a daily basis, convincing suicidally depressed superhumans not to take everyone else with them, all while living under the shadow of the hostile advanced aliens building a Nicoll-Dyson laser in the solar system next door. Oh, and the one Superhuman AGI that humanity produced might be out to get them.
>Welcome to the world of ENNS, where superheroes have actual jobs and don’t run around in costumes fighting muggers, humanity faces existential threats around every corner, and Adat has the bad luck of finding himself fighting threats way above his pay grade.
In my experience, the blurb will very quickly tell you if this novel is not for you, or if it’s very for you.
Thanks, that is helpful!
Regarding completeness—my first book is complete, and the second is in the middle. I had a hard time enforcing consistency across the first book and making sure that there are no contradictions in different places once the main plot was there, so I am a bit hesitant to release chapters of the second book before it is finished, because I fear I will need to rewrite some parts. But yes, I have like 10 chapters ready for weekly posts let’s say.
Can you share your piece by the way?
Welcome to writing fiction that aspires to ratfic territory. I have faced massive headaches when it came to resolving dangling plot threads, or finding a way to make a plot where even a rational actor wouldn’t see every twist coming a mile in advance. But it’s a good challenge, I hate it when other writers take the easy way out by making characters selectively intelligent or depict genius in absurd ways, so I held myself to higher standards.
(Maybe I should have plotted things out in advance better than I did, but I don’t find that fun, and I write for fun)
If you intend to act soon, then I strongly advise starting with the complete book. Alternatively, you can post both at once, and work on the latter till you catch up, hopefully before you run out of scheduled posts.
>Can you share your piece by the way?
Happy to, since you ask even after my caveats:
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/65211/ex-nihilo-nihil-supernum-original-hard-scifi-with
Cover blurb:
>Dr. Adat Sen has been having a bad week. >You think you have it good, after the sudden appearance of superpowers into the world revolutionizes everything. Especially when your wife is a one in a billion teleporter, it’s a cushy gig right until the draft notice arrives and she’s forced into a war of apocalyptic proportions under alien suns. >The same star system where, every day, hundreds of trillions of dollars and the lives of millions of normal humans and metahumans alike are destroyed in a meat grinder, barely managing to hold the line against the K3 civilization that a superpowered research experiment accidentally brought to our doorstep. >Let’s not forget that his promised pay raise didn’t come through, or that someone’s out for him to the extent of trying to trying to fry his brain with a Basilisk hack. Who would have thought that being a a cyborg psychiatrist for the UN could be this stressful? >Then there’s the matter of publish or perish, handling nasty cognitohazards on a daily basis, convincing suicidally depressed superhumans not to take everyone else with them, all while living under the shadow of the hostile advanced aliens building a Nicoll-Dyson laser in the solar system next door. Oh, and the one Superhuman AGI that humanity produced might be out to get them.
>Welcome to the world of ENNS, where superheroes have actual jobs and don’t run around in costumes fighting muggers, humanity faces existential threats around every corner, and Adat has the bad luck of finding himself fighting threats way above his pay grade.
In my experience, the blurb will very quickly tell you if this novel is not for you, or if it’s very for you.