I have a very confusing predicament.
I recently found a three-years old fic of mine. i still think it's funny, and with edits, I think it has potential; I'm having issues with the first through third chapters being small, but it was teh first thing I ever wrote with intentions of continuing, so they were short ot begin with. I plan to go back and revise, but I'd liek to get myself back intothe spirit of writing it, so I'd like to continue. It's a humor piece, and the chapters vary in length from a page to four pages, at worst and best. Problem is, I've looked at all of the transitions, and I can't find an easy way to smooth this out. The problem here is that Zephyr_Flare said on the first page that chapters should be two pages in Word at least, most of which mine are, but not teh beginnigns. Which, liek I said, I don't want to edit now.
I also have a "prologue" whihc is not even a page long. It's just a Brian Jacques-esque, foreshadowing diatribe. Here it is:
Prologue
A Young Boy’s Legacy
In a country far away, in the small little town of Pallet, in a house across the path from the lab, there lives a young boy…
A young boy who would soon become one of the greatest Pokemon masters of all time…
A boy who was just then turning 10…
A boy, who at that moment was up early reading the paper, and watching that morning’s Pokemon battle on a TV in his room…
A boy who had anticipated this day for a long time…
A boy with the all-time biggest rival he could hope to have…
A boy named Guy.
Now, with his neighbor and friend, Jonin, and his fraternal twin brother, Dave, he sets out for the lab…
In the town of Pallet…
In a country called Kanto…
In the world of Pokemon.
It's not very long, right? But I like it how it is. Unfortunately, the rules say each chapter gets its own post, and the prologue and first chapter should not be both in the first post. What to do?
It also says that a bump should be at about a month with no replies. I haev 16 chapters (approx) finished. Can I post the Prologue, give a little non-story background, then immediately post again with chapter one? Then subsequently till Chapter three? If I haev written all of them, can I post what I have so far in two or three chapter intervals? As teh story progresses, around chapter eight or so, teh chapters get longer, and worthy of a single post. So the main questions are:
1. Hwo many liberties are given to humor pieces?
2. Is it a horrible thing if all of my chapters aren't two pages? Most of them are.
3. If i have chapters finished, can I post them in intervals of two or more without waiting a month for bumping? Depending on length of course.
4. If my prologue is as short as teh one above, can i include the first chapter in the first post?
Thanks in advance. Reaaaaaally hope teh Mods don't pull the tl;dr thing that everyone seems to liek in teh Misc. Discussion. But Mods wouldn't do that. *jesting smirk*