Worm: Who else has read it?

[Crypsis]

BoneSaw is just the most adorable little medical malpracticing monster ever~

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I like how some of the villain tinkers aren't just unscrupulous, they genuinely don't seem to get why anyone would see anything wrong with their horrendous crimes against nature fascinating experiments.
I've got a soft spot for Burnscar, though. The psychopathy feedback loop thing is delightfully fucked-up.

 

[Disminded]

Tony. Or Toni. Not sure of spelling, don't really care.

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Toni, I think. Most of my exposure to Whatley comes from reading Tansy Running High by Drakensis. If you want to get into Whatley, I suggest reading that. I could probably make it through the main series now, but only because that story made me care about the characters first.

 

[Xicree]

Yeah... Canonically Jack Slash is supposed to look kinda like Johny Depp and give that 'I'm totally a bum' kind of air.

And... CRAWLER!!! <3
~mindless cute babble~

 

[Megaolix]

So... Next chapter (30) has been announced to be the last and teh end of Taylor's story.

I've started reading this not that long ago and this is already reaching the end...

 

[Scia]

So... Next chapter (30) has been announced to be the last and teh end of Taylor's story.

I've started reading this not that long ago and this is already reaching the end...

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Well already is a bit wrong with the length of the series. Its after all A game of Thrones and Tolkin together or roughly a bit more then half of the Wheel of Time if you go by word count.
And well I started reading it somewhere in August if I remember right.

 

[WizardTwo]

Well already is a bit wrong with the length of the series. Its after all A game of Thrones and Tolkin together or roughly a bit more then half of the Wheel of Time if you go by word count.
And well I started reading it somewhere in August if I remember right.

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Uh, no.

I don't understand this mentality at all.

If something is very long, but is really damn good and interesting for its entire length, whats the point in ending it just for the sake of ending it?

Its a web serial.

It can be as long as it wants.

Worm is fucking epic, ending at ANY point is really sad.

You can always create new side-stories, add more plot, switch points of view. Whatever.

I burn through an average 300 page novel in about six to eight hours of reading. So one or two evenings at most.
Finding a deep and complex world to read and get absorbed into is HARD when you're done reading everything there is about it in a few hours.
So I like my writing LONG.

Worm delivers.

 

[nick012000]

Uh, no.

I don't understand this mentality at all.

If something is very long, but is really damn good and interesting for its entire length, whats the point in ending it just for the sake of ending it?

Its a web serial.

It can be as long as it wants.

Worm is fucking epic, ending at ANY point is really sad.

You can always create new side-stories, add more plot, switch points of view. Whatever.

I burn through an average 300 page novel in about six to eight hours of reading. So one or two evenings at most.
Finding a deep and complex world to read and get absorbed into is HARD when you're done reading everything there is about it in a few hours.
So I like my writing LONG.

Worm delivers.

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Yeah, but Worm's been marked by a steady escalation of threat levels through the duration of the story; given that this last arc involves the hero of the story recruiting basically all of her former antagonists to take on the most powerful enemy in the world of the story, I'm not sure where you'd expect it to go from there.

I mean, sure, maybe you could write a story with a new protagonist set in the superpowered feudal society that seems to be implied to come about after Scion's killed, but that's not really a superhero story, now is it?

 

[WizardTwo]

Yeah, but Worm's been marked by a steady escalation of threat levels through the duration of the story; given that this last arc involves the hero of the story recruiting basically all of her former antagonists to take on the most powerful enemy in the world of the story, I'm not sure where you'd expect it to go from there.

I mean, sure, maybe you could write a story with a new protagonist set in the superpowered feudal society that seems to be implied to come about after Scion's killed, but that's not really a superhero story, now is it?

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I'd fucking love to read about a super powered feudal society after an apocalypse. But that's not the only route you can take.

The story of doctor mother needs to be told, and her epic fight with the first entity decades ago, when she saved the world, before anyone had powers, she took down a scion grade entity. She became the most powerful person in the world, despite having no superpowers, just so that she could save it. And then after climbing so high, she died in the dirt. An epic story for sure.

And that's just ONE way to expand the story. There are DOZENS. In a universe which explicitly operates on a multi-universal model, where those universes can talk to each other and travel between them is possible, you dismiss continuing the story because you can't think of any way it could be expanded that would be awesome? You lack imagination. The setting explicitly has alien races, many of which were exterminated by the entity and their tech was stolen for its tinker powers. The sort of crazy awesome sci-fi setting possible in the wormverse is just mind-boggling. Wildbow has created a deep and engaging universe. With so many possible routes to expand the story, it would be sad to see it end.

Anyway, the guy was complaining that its really long, and that he thought that was weird, and that it should end because its long, not because its a good point to end within the narrative, only that its long, and took him ages to read, and so it should be ending soon.
And I think that's crazy.

 

[Biigoh]

I thought Wildbow stated that it's the end of Taylor's story, but he's going to be doing more writing in the setting? ie Worm isn't ending or there would be sequels/prequels. Because everything has an end.

 

[chrnno]

I thought Wildbow stated that it's the end of Taylor's story, but he's going to be doing more writing in the setting? ie Worm isn't ending or there would be sequels/prequels. Because everything has an end.

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More or less, he said that while he will be doing those afterwards he intends to explore different stories for a while.

 

[Scia]

Uh, no.

I don't understand this mentality at all.

If something is very long, but is really damn good and interesting for its entire length, whats the point in ending it just for the sake of ending it?

Its a web serial.

It can be as long as it wants.

Worm is fucking epic, ending at ANY point is really sad.

You can always create new side-stories, add more plot, switch points of view. Whatever.

I burn through an average 300 page novel in about six to eight hours of reading. So one or two evenings at most.
Finding a deep and complex world to read and get absorbed into is HARD when you're done reading everything there is about it in a few hours.
So I like my writing LONG.

Worm delivers.

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At was more about the impression that worm is not already long. Which is not a bad sign as the number of doorstopper series in my room can attest to. But as it has been already stated that would only be the end of Taylors story. Wildbow has stated that more shall be written about the verse, which is for example why we never learn anything about the SLEEPER was that one plays a important roll in the sequel.

And well it also prevents him from burning out on it if he is able to step back for a moment because he already stated over a year ago that he had a planed endgame. Or would you have prefered if worm one day ends in the middle of a storyline because he burns out like so many other on-line authors?

 

[Megaolix]

At was more about the impression that worm is not already long. Which is not a bad sign as the number of doorstopper series in my room can attest to. But as it has been already stated that would only be the end of Taylors story. Wildbow has stated that more shall be written about the verse, which is for example why we never learn anything about the SLEEPER was that one plays a important roll in the sequel.

And well it also prevents him from burning out on it if he is able to step back for a moment because he already stated over a year ago that he had a planed endgame. Or would you have prefered if worm one day ends in the middle of a storyline because he burns out like so many other on-line authors?

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I got the perfect quote to that feeling, told by another author.

(From THP, for A Fairy's Tale)

>Each time I read something from this, I cry a bit when I remember the story is actually over. I'll never see more of your Flandre, the fairies and everyone the way you wrote them again apart from sidestories now and then. Such is the sad fate of every story that ends.

And don't we all know it. You can see the even sadder alternative all over the site: stories that just continue on and on with no plan to end, many of them ultimately becoming unceremoniously abandoned when the troubles of life whisk their writers away. Better to shed a tear for closure than to shed a tear for a lack of it

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So yeah, I don't mind it ending.

Now, I hope Taylor can survive the ending. And Tattletale too. If either died at this point...

 

[iamnuff]

I'l have to take a look at this.