Update for Ch. 75: Yes, I know this wasn’t quite as good as Ch. 74. They can’t all be as good as Ch. 74. Also, at some point you have to choose between abandoning the sick baby or spending another three goddamned months trying to rewrite it. I do think I learned something from the experience, anyway.
I strongly preferred Chapter 75, incidentally. Chapter 74 seemed to be another “need a way to top previous chapters” experience, like the underwater battle in Chapter 33. The talky chapters, like 75, are the real soul of the fic; the CMOA, after all, was the casting of a single Patronus, but the long inner narrative made it what it was.
Anyway, I think it’s amusing that authors’ favorites rarely correlate positively with readers’ favorites.
Anyway, I think it’s amusing that authors’ favorites rarely correlate positively with readers’ favorites.
Eliezer has mentioned that he finds dialog hard to write. Maybe authors’ favorites don’t match readers’ favorites because the authors like the ones that came easily and the readers like the ones that took a lot of effort.
Agreed. The chapters were the characters get to really shine are the best. The underwater battle was cool, but the only part I actually CARED about was what happened at the end with Blaise.
From the Author’s Notes:
I strongly preferred Chapter 75, incidentally. Chapter 74 seemed to be another “need a way to top previous chapters” experience, like the underwater battle in Chapter 33. The talky chapters, like 75, are the real soul of the fic; the CMOA, after all, was the casting of a single Patronus, but the long inner narrative made it what it was.
Anyway, I think it’s amusing that authors’ favorites rarely correlate positively with readers’ favorites.
Eliezer has mentioned that he finds dialog hard to write. Maybe authors’ favorites don’t match readers’ favorites because the authors like the ones that came easily and the readers like the ones that took a lot of effort.
Agreed. The chapters were the characters get to really shine are the best. The underwater battle was cool, but the only part I actually CARED about was what happened at the end with Blaise.