Previous Post Well, that’s really all we have time for, readers… by which I mean that this story has done what my Parodyverse stories often do and sprawled out more than I had expected. I estimate that it will take another seven chapters to complete, in another ‘issue’ of Untold Tales. At the moment I have two and a half of those chapters written. But, having put December aside as a ‘holiday’ from other projects, including writing that now forms a handy second income for me, I should now be getting back to work. I don’t really want to leave the story at this point, especially because there’s a lot of it only in my head that will get flushed away as soon as I start to proofread one of the several manuscripts awaiting my attention or writing the next prose I have due (a Sherlock Holmes short story about what happens in 221a Baker Street). It is bad discipline to stop part way. But on the other hand, writing PVB stories for myself and an audience numbering in single digits is very self-indulgent. So do I give myself an extra week’s holiday and finish what I started? Or should I shelve things for a better time? I'm really in two minds, so any comments might help.

I suppose the question is when would be a better time? There would be the need to corral all of the various readers again should you wait long enough for them all to wander off. Not necessarily a huge task, considering how few there are, but I would at least solicit a wait list from readers who want to be alerted when the next chapters are ready to come out.

But if you're asking when I would personally like it...