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Long or Short Resolution (denouement)? (Patreon)

Published:
2023-06-30 12:41:54
Imported:
2023-07

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Hey everyone! As book 3 of Cyber Dreams wraps up, there are a couple of ways I can handle the denouement. In the past, I've given a chapter or two of resolution and (with Cyber Dreams) an epilogue. This book presents me with some options; there are a lot of business and "day in the life" type things that I could write about as things wrap up for Juliet and her friends (I'm trying not to spoil here because not everyone has read the climax.)

I could:

1. Spend a few extra chapters detailing them at the end of this book.

2. Spend some time at the start of the next book taking care of those things.

3. Spend less time and kind of summarize how things went down, leaving more to the imagination and moving into the plot of Book Four faster.

This is one of the fun things (at least I imagine it would be) that Patrons get to do: Help me decide! What would you like?

I know this is about Cyber Dreams 3, but that doesn't mean this information won't help me understand my readers better and affect other books I write going forward.

Comments

Jon

Long resolution FTW!

Anonymous

A problem many webnovels have imho is that they constantly sprint to the next high tension moment. There should be time for both the reader and the characters to decompress, solidify their gains and work through any lingering issues they may have. So i don't really care which book the downtime is attached to, but I hope you don't fall into the trap of having to constantly deliver high intensity chapters, because eventually it just becomes exhausting and if everything is intense, nothing is. This is just my opinion as a chronic reader of way too much fiction.

Hammy

If I could I would of voted for a mix of 1 & 3 70% OPT-1 and 30% OPT-3 in my opinion.

Anonymous

Thank you for giving us the chance to vote on this, personally I want there to be some down time focused on Juliet and Honey, they have both been through traumatizing situations recently, juilet still hasn't fully processed alot of it and I think it would be nice to just focus on the two of them for a chapter or two, maybe go on a date

maximum0428

Definitely would love to see some downtime with the crew before book 4. Some recovery time, maybe some slice-of-life type stuff where they go through everything that happened and process it all

John Growcott
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I very much agree. One of my long-time pet hates in reading has always been stories that finish the major plot points but never deal with many of the smaller things, or show you what happens to the characters afterward.

Eammon_Wright

you could have spent 10 chapters on slice of life for every one that you did post and i would still be happy, major pet peve is stories that only contain the high points, it always just ends up feeling like a rough draft that never got fleshed out.

Flying Goat

The series has been pretty high intensity recently - going from the fight in the tunnels, to the one at the ship, to the rescue with only relatively brief breaks in the action. I'm not complaining at all, but I think some more downtime would be great - see what's up with Honey, her plans, some time with the rescued pregnant woman whose name I've forgotten, maybe get a snippet of her story or her plans. Some time with the crew would be great, too.

Anonymous

I wholeheartedly vote for a slow resolution and decompression for several chapters -- or even more. As for where to place them, I think that resolution of the 'local' issues on Titan, Honey's backlog of issues, and other immediate issues should be resolved by the end of the book, with the ending perhaps their departure and beginning of the trip back to Luna. Book 4 then starts up with either an issue in transit or their arrival back to Luna, and a development of the larger issues that she left behind when she went to Titan after Honey. IDK what your intention with an epilogue is, so I can't speak to that. Actually, A prologue POV shift at the beginning of B4, that covers developments on Luna/Earth while J was on Titan could be a very interesting start to book 4, if my intuition as to what you may have developing for her return is close.

Anonymous

For us online readers it does not matter whether this content is at the end of book 3 On the beginning of book 4 I'd say end of book 3 so that book 4 picks up the pace faster.