>>70337321>>70364297The honest answer to that question is that I really just needed to get Tower of Tattle out of my head for a while. I've got really obsessive tendencies, and it was a work that started literally a week after Shiori debuted, went on for a month, and then had been roosting and renting about a quarter of my cognitive space for like half a year. It genuinely was something I'd only started on a lark for the writing contest and planned to have done in a few days. The original Tower of Tattle was literally supposed to be... 1500 words...
That said, it's not entirely the case that I did it just for mental health and productivity reasons. Cuz I did have the small hope that releasing it in bits I might be able to catch people more and more with it. It's kinda gay to talk about twitter readership, but it was cool when a couple of the parts got a few hundred likes. Anyway, that's a wash since the shiorinstories tag is dead and now only one guy on twitter reads it. But I do actually think it reads a bit better serialized. It's worth saying that all together part VI would probably be like... 70k words. It kinda felt like if I just dumped a 70k word part on here, even people who'd been reading it before would be put off.
But yeah. The bigger reason is honestly that Tower of Tattle was taking up a huge amount of my mental space that I just needed to free up for everything else in my life, and doing the drip feed put it in a state where I could watch it out of the corner of my eye while I did some hogwrangling with life stuff that's gonna be freed up in about a month.
