/lit/ - Literature

>>22515060
I wonder sometimes about shit like this. In Star Wars IV, Luke Skywalker, the MAIN FUCKING CHARACTER, does not show up at all until like an hour into the movie. (Originally he was going to be introduced earlier, but during editing they took that scene out because it sucked and they were trying to salvage the disastrous pacing.)
Of course, if you did this exact same thing today, any editor would rebuke you with a faceful of boiling hot coffee, and if you tried to defend yourself by comparing your work to Star Wars you'd get some bullshit like "George Lucas was a creative genius exempt from the rules, whereas you are obviously not." I'm pretty sure Lucas got the same bullshit from the studio when he pitched the fucking thing.
The modern workflow seems to be serializing your first draft on the internet, and then if it garners an audience you can turn around and deal with the editors' egos once you have more leverage on your side. But this sucks, but the alternatives also suck, a lot, so maybe there are no answers and we just have to fumble in the darkness with no ground under our feet.