the danger of havin an epic story that takes a long time to finish is like, the fans end up more invested in the world/characters than the author and will remember all sorts of details the author didnt think of, or their fav character will be some character the authir was never that invested in and had no longterm plan for, etc. and the linger it takes to finish the worsr it gets bc the fans hav so much time!!!
this phenomenon is something that kinda scares me as a writer haha
@roadrunner see also: Stephen King's 'Misery'
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@natecull haha yeah!! whats weird is often the fans DO have valid points but at the same time its not their story, idk, ppl definitely expect too much from writers, there r always gonna be plotholes and inconsistancies bc theyre written by human beings
(man, its offtopic but i actually forgot that was the misery woman's motivation and thought she was in love with him, which shows a bunch of weird ingrained cultural assumptions about "crazy women" in media)
@roadrunner @natecull The challenge in writing fiction is that it has to be believable