Read-in-Progress Not Wednesday

[geraineon]

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and happy weird inbetween (sort of holiday) time to the rest!

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

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Comments

[lee_bella]

Not really reading right now, but I came across a danmei novel that has close to 100 extra chapters. To be fair, some of those extra chapters are what-ifs, and the others are the two MCs taking part in a reality show. Still, I'm not sure I would have the patience to read all the extras unless I really love the main couple or the main story leaves too many loose ends.

(Ending the main story on loose end was my only minor gripe with Thousand Autumns. I'm not sure why the main story ended where it was when the extra chapter began immediately from where the main story left off. It could have been incorporated into the main story, I think?)

[duckprintspress]

that's a bonkers number of extras.

I read Rose and Renaissance (Wo Zhi Xihuan Ni De Renshe) by Zhichu and it's got 21 extras (a quarter of the total length) and I thought THAT was too many.

[lee_bella]

I've seen a quick transmigration novel with over 200 extra chapters, but that's probably not the norm.

[duckprintspress]

I have no words I'm just staring at this in horror lmao.

[anne]

the author thought nobody would write fic so they did it themselves?

[lee_bella]

I suppose so. Some authors are quite fond of writing what-ifs or alternate universe as extras. Maybe to scratch that writer's itch or as fanservice. I know there are writers who would ask the readers what kind of extra stories they would like to see.

[anne]

one of my favorite writers did a Yuletide story in her own tradpub universe--she said it was fanfic because her coauthor wasn't involved, but in my heart it's canon.