Yeah.  She's a really strong character with a lovely streak of subtle snark.  I'd love to see more of her in the story.

I just don't have the patience.  I'd rather she pick a schedule she can keep than update five days a week. Even if it's just M-W-F or even T-TR but she ALWAYS updates at say, 10pm, I'd be happier.

I have a hard time with three times a week and one serial. And this is the greater part of my work right now; I don't have a traditional day job. The expectation that she could write as many serials as she does and update them as often as she says she wants to because "this is her job" is just ridiculous and I wish she'd set herself a more sane update schedule. Yeah, she's kept it up for a year, but when she burns out it's gonna be ugly and I really don't want to see it.

I don't really care how often she updates.

I mean, I donated, but I donated one lump sum for the pleasure her writing has given me so far and more vaguely because of what she'll write in the future. It's not like Im subscribing to this shit or anything.

I don't buy that she has some kind of commitment to update when she says she will, unless it's to people who are making regular donations of a set amount per month, or what have you. And even then, being that it's an elective thing, you can choose not to pay her, or pay her less.

Yeah, but this isn't like making widgets. You might be able to make x number of widgets in 8 hours, but you can't always be guaranteed of x number of words in 8 hours. OK, maybe you can, but will they make sense when strung together? Which isn't to say that you're wrong; it's saying that six times a week on just one serial is about three too many to be consistent, for anyone.

Cripes, can I procrastinate any further? I actually LIKE writing and I cannot get this chapter done...

*rubs hands in glee*

This should be interesting.

I don't much ascribe to the Writing Is Art camp, and I'm firmly in the Writing Is Craft camp. 

Which is to say, I think AE FEELS that there's more writing done on this:  "When I feel the flow and have the time at 9pm to let the magic flow from my ass." schedule, but in reality you just get fit and start weeks, slow weeks, busy weeks, good writing, poor writing, etc, all jumbled together. 

If AE wrote and kept the hot over-productive days slotted for release, it would smooth things out. 

I think the whole "it's better if I just do it then and post it immediately" is a desire for the immediacy of reader feedback.  "I did it, tell me I'm awesome NOW." feeling of afterglow from writing something.

In other news, I decided to catch up after not reading for a while, and finding that I haven't missed a hell of a lot the last few days.  I'm interested to see what Mother Khaele has to say about these things.

I'm sad that Dee is sad, but I have to say it's understandable.  Though ... again.  Nobody thinks to fucking check out the pitchfork?  Really.  It's getting kind of dumb.  Dee's like:  "You were or you weren't?" and nobody's thinking:  "Let's try to figure that out, because me ordering human flesh and not remembering it is some weird weird shit, yo."

Really, twer I Dee and not peeking, I'd have to suspect that they were just lying about it.  I mean, really, that's far-fetched bullshit.  "I was possessed.  Maybe.  We didn't look into it.  I didn't remember ordering it, but really, we won't talk about that, let's talk about when it got there." 

Sounds like a cover-up to me, anyway.  People should be freaked out when the demon that eats people 'forgets' she ordered the Human Fried Rice.  What's next?  "I don't remember" that I ate Honey? 

--fje

Actually, I'm wondering if the fork isn't so much a cursed weapon as a weapon possessed by an aware entity. And not just an evil entity, but one that has powers and abilities of its own. That could explain why it's managed to avoid as much attention as it has... It may be actively using magic to avoid detection/notice, rather than just having a "don't notice me" spell on it.

Whatever was in Mack was certainly more than just vaguely self-aware, and certainly seemed to return to the fork after the beat down. A demon-mage of some type extends his/her life by making a weapon that they can imbue with their life essence, which can be passed around until a suitable wielder/host comes along. Then of course, you keep the fork handy to retreat to later, if you really push your luck.

Could be... Or I could just be rationalizing.

As for updates... I'd be happy if she just went to a 3 day a week schedule instead of every day. And then if she kept writing every day, she might build up a buffer of extra updates that she could post when life gets in the way, to keep on track of the 3 updates a week schedule.

Or maybe she could concentrate on one story at a time, rather than trying to update... What? At least two, certainly But I don't read any of her other serials, so I don't know how often she updates those.

Thank god! I was starting to think I was the only one who was getting pissed about this.

Mack may not be possessed anymore, but you would think that instead of going "Hmm... that was weird!" someone might decide to actively search for a reason. Perhaps it's a subconscious thing, where everyone has just accepted that Mack eats people. It just bothers me that no one has even thought to check this out.


That's what I've been thinking since whatever/whoever possessed her was forced to go back to where it felt safe. I assume that must mean the fork, since it also mentioned that it was a cold place.