I would 100% write them as “Chapter Two: Chapter One”. And then maybe put them out of order, like the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
Now I want to do that
Hahahaha! You know, it wouldn’t actually be a bad idea for non-linear stories. Or ones with kind of a sarcastic, unreliable narrator. Could be fun.
So I had to give the chapters of B&T titles because I wrote a prologue and AO3 marks chapters numerically and writing something like “chapter two: chapter one” is just horribly confusing. So that’s all well and good but now I need approximately 14 more titles. Fantastic.
I really hope that when I post this new chapter of B&T my weird ass sense of humor translates and my readers actually laugh instead of thinking I’m a weirdo.
Ah, thank you sarlacc. (“She shoots, she scores!”)
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…And it appears I’ve caused confusion with this one, too. Whoops! Explanation time.
Star Wars AU fanfic!
One is a finnpoe modern Cinderella type thingy that I’ve got outlined, another is a dark reylo witch/demon fic I’ve been kicking around for a few weeks, and another is the reylo selkie au I took down but still kept and have been considering putting back up.
So yeah, good stuff I just don’t know what I want to spend my time one.
The only thing worse than being torn between two WIPs is being torn between three.