Reply To: Little or No Haircutting In Posts

[klaatu48]

I think as long as it’s clear that a larger part of the story will have a haircut or deal with haircutting, it’s okay to post a chapter without any. (I mean, it’s not like you’d get in trouble by any means; it’s just a matter of whether readers would get annoyed.)

I have on story (Setting the Terms) that was a prelude to another and didn’t feature a full cut of its own (I wanted to set the stage for a hair bet made regarding the Super Bowl, and didn’t have time to write a full cut scene), but I had one of the recurring characters get a new style to kind of set things off despite not being the focus of the piece. Just be ready for it to get fewer likes than usual and so forth.

So, my advice would be to throw in a few teases — characters playing with their hair as they talk, thoughts about how pretty it is or what someone else might think if it were cut, that sort of thing.