So. I think the plan to post an installment of Wired *every* day this week was a bit much. I have readers in different time zones, not to mention with very busy lives! I need to give y’all more time to read each installment before moving on to the next one. So here is the new and revised schedule for Wired: Part 4 goes up Friday morning. Part 5 (the last one) goes up the following Monday. And next time I do this (why, yes, there will be a next time! I need to apply the lessons learned from this time, right?) I won’t post more than three installments a week.
Sound good to everyone?
Sounds good to me!
Where did you get your inspiration for the story (apart from Rapunzel)?
Part III has me re-thinking what the main character looks like. I was thinking more machine than human up to that point (esp. when she got plugged in for the first time and ‘fried’), but it seems she’s also human to a certain degree…
*nod* She’s definitely a mix of machine and human. I never sat down to work out the exact percentages, though. I do think that part of it is a matter of perception. She sees being human–meat–as a definite disadvantage, so she downplays that part of herself.
Inspiration for the story? Hmm. I’ve never really liked the original Rapunzel story, which is why I wanted to play with it and reframe it in a way that made better sense to me. I’m not sure what the inciting spark was, but one day I made the connection hair = cables(!) and built the story around that being true. It went through many iterations in my head before I ever wrote a word. In the earliest version, Rapunzel was a human-looking robot who lived on a terraformed moon while below the survivors of a post-apocalypse earth were desperately trying to find a way to contact her so she could come rescue them (a play on the whole “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair” aspect).
Daily posting can be exhausting—to read as well as to write, so I appreciate the change up and hope this schedule works much better for you. I’m loving the story even if I’m a dreadful lurker some weeks.
Yes, I think this schedule will. I don’t know why, but I thought it would be a snap to post up an already-written story in daily parts. It’s not that easy. I still proofread the section again, then I need to format the post, add my links, copyright notice, and intro sentence, preview, proofread again (though I bet I still miss typos!). Not to mention I feel an emotional wrench every time I hit the schedule button–will they like it? will they think I’m a terrible writer/person for thinking up such stuff? It ends up being more consuming than I thought.
Well, I live and learn. 😀
I was going to just save the installments in a folder to read when I had a good bit of time, but this works too.
And here I thought I was the only one with the emotional gut check I get every time I post something from one of my stories! I keep hoping it gets better with practice, like everything else.
What I’m getting at? I’d love to see more of these from you! I really look forward to reading them. 🙂
I think the emotional gut check keeps me honest, in a situation like this where I’m asking you all to invest your valuable time into following a longer story (not talking about WIP snippets here!). It makes me want to give you my best work.
Thanks for the encouragement to keep it coming.