I've been playing The Witcher 3 a lot lately. It's a good game, and a lot of the praises I've heard are accurate. It's got a big, living world with a good story. But one of the more frequent discussion points is the game's supposed moral ambiguity. In this game, there are supposed to be no right answers, no black and white. Only shades of gray.

It's a shame, then, that actual ambiguity pops up a lot less than it ought and the "gray" is closer to black.

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I've put out another story starring the Tantabus: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/363882/tantabus-communication-protocol

After shenanigans ensued at the end of the last story, one reporter decides she's not going to accept Luna's explanation for how she had a baby. Which causes problems when said explanation shows up in her dreams.

For those of you who liked "Before Closing", it now has a sequel: "Before Dark".

Remember how Bluebell and Aegis said they'd meet up together in a year? It's five years later when they finally do meet up. They have a lot of catching up to do in what little time they have.

Because I wanted to and why not?

Anyway, pacing: how fast or slow a story moves and how the audience is engaged in it. I have no idea why, but it's one of the things I look at the most when I'm deciding whether a story is good or not. Is it fast? Slow? Could it afford to be faster? Slower?

So, what's good pacing? This is good pacing, as shown by Star Wars:

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If you're anything like me, when you see a story (completed or not) that looks interesting but is incredibly long, you stick it in your "Read it Later" queue, eventually download it for your e-reader when you've got time to kill, read it, and are either impressed by its plot and character arcs and worldbuilding, or disappointed because the pacing is glacial and a ten thousand word chapter can be nothing more than, "Cool train, innit?" (I AM NOT MAKING THAT UP OR EXAGGERATING.) But

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Wow. I just finished writing a good-length novel. Updated weekly. For over half a year. Never missed an update. And, no, I didn't have it all written to begin with; I generally had a buffer of one or two chapters at any time. Having a fanbase helped a lot with motivation, so thank you for your support and critiques.

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So, at the advice of a commenter and the spirit of spreading the word, I'm mentioning that I wrote a sequel to "Tantabus, Mk. II": http://www.fimfiction.net/story/342603/aunthood-issues

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