1. Screaming at someone already stressed out won't make them work faster. It'll seize them up even worse, and they're already having problems. Replace screaming at with begging, whining at, or bitching at, and get the same results.
2. There's an implicit contract between a multi-volume author and the audience. The author, by putting out a series, says "I'm going to keep telling this story." The audience's side of the contract is "We'll keep reading." But the author is the action in the contract; the audience can't act until the author does. When the audience has received multiple notices of an upcoming book, and then nothing materializes, then it's natural to feel the frustation of a broken contract.
So....yeah, there's issues on both sides. I've been wrestling this crocodile for a while; my natural story length is the epic format. (And yes, you inspire me. :D )
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Date: 2009-05-15 01:20 am (UTC)1. Screaming at someone already stressed out won't make them work faster. It'll seize them up even worse, and they're already having problems. Replace screaming at with begging, whining at, or bitching at, and get the same results.
2. There's an implicit contract between a multi-volume author and the audience. The author, by putting out a series, says "I'm going to keep telling this story." The audience's side of the contract is "We'll keep reading." But the author is the action in the contract; the audience can't act until the author does. When the audience has received multiple notices of an upcoming book, and then nothing materializes, then it's natural to feel the frustation of a broken contract.
So....yeah, there's issues on both sides. I've been wrestling this crocodile for a while; my natural story length is the epic format. (And yes, you inspire me. :D )