Winning Peace Timeskip Vote:
Added 2024-02-20 09:10:24 +0000 UTCAs promised, here's the vote on the immediate future of Winning Peace.
To reaffirm my answers to some FAQs...
Chapter 21 will feature Zeke learning he's in the Mass Effect setting. That's too big a game-changer to drop during a time skip. That's happening no matter what.
The time skip determines whether you see a bunch of intermediate steps between where Ezekiel is right now and where he will be when he meets the Council Races.
I expect the tech-up chapters to number around ten, give or take. I'll try to intersperse them with some character drama, politics, and whatnot, but they'll be mainly centered on the technology.
One of those chapters will likely be an infamous Mass Effect timeline. The timeline will likely also appear no matter what, just to give people a proper idea of when/where/how things are happening.
Comments
Not saying you need to change update speed. Try too much and you will burnt as you said (have seen it happen with a lot of authors). But as you know your limitations you should work around them. Since you find it works best to juggle multiple stories at once, you can make 1-3 stories your core stories. They have the most consistent update, and you have long term plot lines that take a while to conclude. Then for your other stories you make them much less long term plans and more in the moment kind of stories. Your merchant one did that well in the first chapter but kinda went back to your normal style with Izuku stuff (have not read chapter 3 yet so don’t know if that is indeed the case or not, 2 chapters isn’t enough to tell but I don’t want to get invested in that story for now). You can even try experimenting with one of your stories and write it on fiction.live and see if that works for you or not. If you can’t change your writing speed then you can try and change writing style a bit to fit it. Or alternatively try to do what some authors have started to do, were they write an arc and then release it in one go a chapter a day till the arc is over then go on hiatus till they write the next arc. This method has its own downsides as you can get feedback for the current arc till it is over, but it works for some authors. You can even keep your current style. While I find some faults in it, others probably don’t mind. Or might be like me but have low investment into the stories and are fine with that. So while my feedback is valid it’s not the only point of view.
Zerak
2024-02-21 02:36:54 +0000 UTCWorking non-stop on specific projects will give me burn-out. I know this because it's happened before. You level fair criticisms of my update style, but the alternative is to have one or two dozen updates and then for the story to die because I've lost interest, don't have time to properly plan for future developments, or just get tired of writing the same thing constantly to the point where frustration will get me into a negative quality spiral.
Slayer Anderson
2024-02-21 02:26:14 +0000 UTCThat’s understandable, the problem with this approach (specifically since you are starting new projects) is that you will end up with stories that only get updated 2-6 times a year. I have a decent memory, and can generally jog my memory of something that I read/watched a decade ago after a little bit of time reading a chapter. The problem is you lose interest. I was really excited about this story when I first found it (even with the annoying aspect of another person having the inspired inventor power), but I have not read the last 2 chapters as I just don’t feel in the mood to do so. Hell it’s like that for most of your stories, I am 6 chapters behind with the Naruto one, I am 1 chapter behind with the MCU one. And I genuinely like those 3 stories. I just don’t think 2.5k words a month is enough to keep you interested in something, because there are parts of a story you won’t like, but normally another chapter would come out soon enough that the last chapter (or that part you didn’t like) isn’t the only thing you think about when you think about the story. I was actually surprised the other day when a new update for the Nexus story came out as I had forgotten it was one of your stories, took me a good 20 seconds to remember that you had a Harry Potter story that I read. For example I was looking forward to Kushina’s surgery/augmentation, and that was 2 apartments ago for me (as in since I for I trusted in that plot line I moved apartments 2 times). At this point every 1 or 2 chapters I’ll ctrl+f to see if the surgery has happened and I’ll likely read everything I have not read once that happens. But on the flip side I am not as invested in that story due too much time happening and too many plot lines in the air. My advice is cut down on your active stories, or make longer chapters, or have less active plot threads in your stories. When you are writing a story on a chapter to chapter basis instead of releasing an entire volume, you need to structure your writing on how much do you write in each chapter and how frequently you post. Anyway that’s my observation from having followed your stories for the past 2 or so years. They are interesting but I tend to lose interest when the story doesn’t get updated for a long time and when it does more often then not it will introduce a new plot thread rather than close existing ones or progress them enough.
Zerak
2024-02-21 01:16:22 +0000 UTCIf the release rate is consistent with the past few months we will get to ME1 around the start of 2025. Maybe a bit sooner or later depending on if it wins the votes.
Zerak
2024-02-21 00:55:26 +0000 UTCI have multiple projects that different people enjoy and I like that, but it does constrain my time somewhat. That’s part of the reason the vote right now is a thing.
Slayer Anderson
2024-02-20 19:53:44 +0000 UTCI can try to cut the chaff as much as possible. That’s all I can promise.
Slayer Anderson
2024-02-20 19:52:10 +0000 UTCWith MC involved I don’t see humanity been as dependent on citadel council or races. I think the power dynamics will be a bit different.
Aeonstorm
2024-02-20 16:16:19 +0000 UTCAny way to have the best of both worlds? Like jumping to ME, but then alternate chapters with flashbacks showing some of tech upgrade? My worry, like others, is that with how long it will take to get the ME we haven't really met yet a lot of the important cast and so the tech chapters are really more just background information instead of character/plot development.
SomethingWicked
2024-02-20 15:41:04 +0000 UTCMy only issue is that it would be 10 Chapters, and not like..5. Because Winning Peace really doesn't come out often. At the current rate, it wouldn't get to ME1 till next year
godUsoland
2024-02-20 15:05:22 +0000 UTCI'd actually have to write an essay on this to get my point across adequately, but the answer isn't 'unrealistic' so much as it is 'politics' in this regard. The position of the council is more about cooperating to preserve the status quo than anything else, because the status quo is 'them in charge.' You don't have to be stupid, brainwashed, or lackies to a military regime to act in those interests. You just have to be content with the established power structures and not want to do anything that might disrupt them or believe that there's anything that anyone else could do in the service of that.
Slayer Anderson
2024-02-20 12:29:12 +0000 UTCI want to long way around. The problem is you don’t release enough chapters within a month. You are even starting new stories. Thus I would vote for time skip so we can get to Mass Effect before the end of the And I don’t mean that sarcastically. Last year you released 17 chapters from jan to December, and towards the end you were averaging 1 chapter a month. Unless that changes to 3 or more chapters a month we are talking about 6-12 months till Mass Effect.
Zerak
2024-02-20 10:19:36 +0000 UTCI believe he means like the 'we have dismissed those claims' meme and the various bashings; council brainwashed to the gills by reapers that won't believe the truth even if they talk to an actual reaper, Turians that want to conquest everywhere and only pay lip to every law, etc...
Axel Wate
2024-02-20 09:42:15 +0000 UTCI would prefer to see some intermediate steps. A large jump with an Inspired Inventor story will basically make it a different story due to changes in human culture caused by the tech introduced during the timeskip. If you just skip ahead then you will need to add explanations and flashbacks to explain how humanity changed compared to Mass Effect canon.
Jaroslaw Jarmul
2024-02-20 09:33:28 +0000 UTCTechPorn for the TechPorn Gods
Alex McGregor
2024-02-20 09:32:45 +0000 UTCYou'll have to explain what you mean by that question. I don't know what you consider 'unrealistic' or how to assuage your concerns.
Slayer Anderson
2024-02-20 09:13:54 +0000 UTCInspired Inventor fics are all about that TechPorn. Gimme gimme.
Adam Daw
2024-02-20 09:13:27 +0000 UTCAre u going to emply a more realistic citadel cousel or just the game version?
CallOut4
2024-02-20 09:12:31 +0000 UTC
