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Date: 2017-05-11 12:46 pm (UTC)In a way, I think the problem in CotD comes down to tempo and pacing. You were forced to introduce too much in too short a time, and that made the book depend on metawriting. Using metawriting is a grand tradition, depending on it is a route to losing readers or literary myopia. But at least you your dependence on metawriting was due to external constraints; it was not a stylistic choice.
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Date: 2017-05-15 02:31 pm (UTC)Being Too Familiar With the Source Can Be An Issue
Date: 2017-05-13 11:07 pm (UTC)Also I'm a huge Smith fan, so him pulling second stage mayhem out wasn't a big shock to me ... I was more distracted by The Monkey Mayhem, but that you really had built up so that it didn't come out of nowhere.
So yeah, I need to get better at trying to look at stuff from a more ... external perspective I guess.
I agree with Kjn, at least this was driven by external pressure and you're very aware of what went wrong.
While I know you've been doing some 'second version' releases of some books (which I have yet to read, but I have bought and downloaded to my phone) I'm guessing it wouldn't be practical if you ever get a chance to continue the series to do a director's cut of Challenges that moves the plot-items that could have been later to actually be later ... for one thing I get the impression that would mean moving the entire Molothos fight out to a different book.
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Date: 2017-05-14 04:58 am (UTC)But then when the high power fight kicked in, I did pretty much forget about my complaints and got caught up in the scene.
Also, it does feel like K's now caught in a 'Can't Keep Up' position, where she's a Hyperion too but since she's not from a super high powered fiction, well, she's not quite in as much of the DuQuesne peer position as she was in book 2.