Improvements! · 6:04pm Mar 20th, 2016
So, for those of you who may have worried, no, I'm not dead, I have just been extremely busy with being a full time grad student and working 20 hours a week. Writing and self-editing new chapters and stories takes a lot of time. Time that I do not usually have. However, this is spring break for me, and while I have plenty of other work to catch up on I do have enough time, this week at least, to make some progress on my stories here. I am currently making some major edits to An End to Ignorance, which I feel needs the most improvement by far. I have already heavily modified, and re-published the prologue to make it a bit less confusing and to make the geology discussed more reasonable and accurate. Note: the process I describe for the breakout of high altitude glacial moraine lakes is in fact an ongoing occurrence and constant threat to areas of the Tibetan plateau. I am now in the process of editing chapter 1 and will continue on from there. Hopefully the end result will be fewer OCs and their introductions needed and therefore less confusion as to the direction of plot. One of the reasons I paused in my work on this story was that it was becoming too complex for my peace of mind. Now, having had a while to step away from it and re-consider, I think I have found a reasonable way forward.
I would also like to put out there that even though none of my stories have managed to acquire more likes than dislikes (unsurprisingly), that this in no way has any bearing on my lack of progress over these past two months. In fact, according to my page I currently have 34 followers, meaning that at least 34 people enjoy the... interesting stuff I write about. An impressive number of like minded people considering the situation. This alone gives me hope for the future of my race.
one problem is that you don't have an editor. You yourself understand the story but to to an outsider it can be very confusing. Try and look for an editor.
Also the story "Sibling Interaction" could use some editing. Make it a little easier to understand that the time is switching back and forth and move the author's note to the top of the story instead of the bottom. People need to read the note to understand that the story is switching like that.
3818399 Thanks for the reminder on the note, it has been moved.
As for an editor, I would enjoy having one, but it is doubtful I would ever find one, its difficult enough just to find people who like the sort of things I write about in the first place. Though I'm not saying its impossible.
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Try and search for one. He doesn't have to be very skilled but just someone to offer another opinion on it would help. Maybe this guy: http://www.fimfiction.net/user/blablafreckenlover