The Innocent Ch.13 Done, and etc.
Yeah, I edited Ch.13 and sent it to be archive. So now I'm just waiting for the link. My hope is to get Ch.14 and 15 read next weekend. It would have been this weekend, but alas, I forgot the two chapters.
So instead I read stele3's One Father's Son Ch.8, and wow can I tell you how dry my throat was after that. If I'm really feeling up to it Ch.9 could be read this long weekend--but that's being really optimistic. I'm also having thoughts of reading Ch.9 differently: read all the narration, and individual characters' dialogue seperately. The negative side of this is more editting time. On the other hand, it could get better result--or the results I want. Either way, I won't be editting Ch.8 (or possibly) Ch.9 until I finish off the chapters there are of The Innocent.
Also, I am under the consideration of dropping The Incredible Adventures of Freakboy and Dykegirl. This is a seriously long (never will be finished) fic. I print out hard copies of the story so it's in front of me in a nice on-paper format. So in Times New Roman, 11-poinfont, do you know how many pages 30 Chapters are?
194 pages.
The time it is taking me to finish One Father's Son, I can see myself never finishing this off.
My consideration's so far are:
1) Drop the story. This will undoubtly sadden me, yet might save my sanity.
2) Have some sort-of large reader collaboration at the author's permission. In other words, I read the first few chapters, and other people will read a couple of chapters and/or sections that I have delegated . My only twitch about this idea is that this story is not even going to be finished so.....
3) My third option was read the first few chapters and leave it at that telling you to go read the rest of the story, but that just sounds even more sad the more I think about it--truthfully I don't even know what I'm thinking.
This seriously is breaking my heart, or maybe I just need to learn to let go before it starts to feel like work.