T_T
So, that thing I personally have about no-take-backsies which means if a chapter is out in the open I don't retcon/change it except to fix typos or minor stylistic edits? That personal rule I have about how I shouldn't change the plot on readers, because that's not fair? That doesn't apply if I bork my timelines so badly I skip an entire year for no reason that can't be ret-conned/accounted-for/handwaved away. That skipped year is _major_ and substantially alters the plot and character motivations.
In other words, I had to retract the entirety of chapter 5 and I feel like an idiot. T_T (Still. Artistic integrity has to count for SOMETHING... T_T)
Previously I'd been updating every week, and with the start of the new semester I was trying to make sure I updated every two weeks or so at the very most, but now that's going to be "as soon as I can get it done" for the next month at least. T_T
ARGH. I hate myself, why is longfic so much more difficult than shortfic? T_T For comparison, I wrote three fics for the Basketball Poets Society OTP Battle in the span of 6 hours (including the time it took to do some research for fic #3), and one of them only took 25 minutes with very minor beta edits! I understand that the longer something is, the harder it is to write, but I feel like the relationship should be linear, not logarithmical! T_T
Retraction announcement:
Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed I deleted chapter 5. I’m so VERY VERY SORRY. I made a fundamental error in timelines that somehow escaped me (and led me to mislead my betas-this is not their fault, it’s all mine). Chapter 5 is not the end of Kise’s third year in Teikou, it is only the end of the second year! I truly apologize for the error and I hope you will bear with me as I fix it!
Retraction update:
Three out of seven scenes in the now-retracted chapter 5 of Kise no Copy have to be scrapped and rewritten from scratch. Chapter 6, half-written, will need to be re-drafted. Two out of four of the major/minor plot threads now have to be re-plotted and the outline re-drawn in order to make sure continuity works as it should and take into account altered motivations.
I’m committed to getting as much of Kise no Copy out as possible before Kaijou faces Fukuda Sougou in the Winter Cup in the anime, but I also need to get through February and early March with my sanity intact! T_T In other words, chapter five is going to be delayed somewhat due to RL. T_T *whimpers* I hate making excuses, but my plate is overflowing. I co-own a game studio, I am a full time graduate student, I do tax volunteer work, and I am trying to get an accounting license before I start work (I graduate in May and start work 2 days after Convocation.) My game studio is releasing a final version in the next two weeks. I have a major mid-term on Monday, the final part of the previously-mentioned major tax licensing exam in two weeks, and a major group paper/presentation combination the week after that, and this is not including the craziness that is the US tax season.
In order for you to not miss a chapter (because I know Tumblr announcements sneak by VERY quickly), if you have an AO3 account, you can subscribe to the fic (there’s a “subscribe” button on top available to logged-in users), and AO3 will e-mail you when I update it! If you need an invitation to AO3, please contact me with your e-mail address and I will have the invitation e-mailed to you directly! <3
I am VERY SORRY about the take-back and I hope you will like the new and hopefully-much-improved version when it is finally rewritten. <3
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In other words, I had to retract the entirety of chapter 5 and I feel like an idiot. T_T (Still. Artistic integrity has to count for SOMETHING... T_T)
Previously I'd been updating every week, and with the start of the new semester I was trying to make sure I updated every two weeks or so at the very most, but now that's going to be "as soon as I can get it done" for the next month at least. T_T
ARGH. I hate myself, why is longfic so much more difficult than shortfic? T_T For comparison, I wrote three fics for the Basketball Poets Society OTP Battle in the span of 6 hours (including the time it took to do some research for fic #3), and one of them only took 25 minutes with very minor beta edits! I understand that the longer something is, the harder it is to write, but I feel like the relationship should be linear, not logarithmical! T_T
Retraction announcement:
Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed I deleted chapter 5. I’m so VERY VERY SORRY. I made a fundamental error in timelines that somehow escaped me (and led me to mislead my betas-this is not their fault, it’s all mine). Chapter 5 is not the end of Kise’s third year in Teikou, it is only the end of the second year! I truly apologize for the error and I hope you will bear with me as I fix it!
Retraction update:
Three out of seven scenes in the now-retracted chapter 5 of Kise no Copy have to be scrapped and rewritten from scratch. Chapter 6, half-written, will need to be re-drafted. Two out of four of the major/minor plot threads now have to be re-plotted and the outline re-drawn in order to make sure continuity works as it should and take into account altered motivations.
I’m committed to getting as much of Kise no Copy out as possible before Kaijou faces Fukuda Sougou in the Winter Cup in the anime, but I also need to get through February and early March with my sanity intact! T_T In other words, chapter five is going to be delayed somewhat due to RL. T_T *whimpers* I hate making excuses, but my plate is overflowing. I co-own a game studio, I am a full time graduate student, I do tax volunteer work, and I am trying to get an accounting license before I start work (I graduate in May and start work 2 days after Convocation.) My game studio is releasing a final version in the next two weeks. I have a major mid-term on Monday, the final part of the previously-mentioned major tax licensing exam in two weeks, and a major group paper/presentation combination the week after that, and this is not including the craziness that is the US tax season.
In order for you to not miss a chapter (because I know Tumblr announcements sneak by VERY quickly), if you have an AO3 account, you can subscribe to the fic (there’s a “subscribe” button on top available to logged-in users), and AO3 will e-mail you when I update it! If you need an invitation to AO3, please contact me with your e-mail address and I will have the invitation e-mailed to you directly! <3
I am VERY SORRY about the take-back and I hope you will like the new and hopefully-much-improved version when it is finally rewritten. <3
Cross-posted; click here to reply on Dreamwidth (
comments so far).