A Question To The Fans of Pure Hearts · 4:40am Jun 13th, 2016
Hey everypony.
I have a very important question for all of you who've read and become fans of Pure Hearts, but first let me start with a bit of context. I'm not happy with the first 2/3rds or so of the story (for reasons I won't discuss in order to keep from degrading it for you all). And I've recently developed a hankering to reboot everything. I always intended to rewrite the first few chapters as it was, but now I kind of want to restart the entirety of the story, keeping the same concept and direction, but re-craft it from the ground up into something better and fill in a lot of the gaps I had while remaining true to the original. I'm still debating the best way to handle this, though.
However, my question to you, my readers, is this: Will you stand behind me if I reboot everything? If I start fresh? And will you continue to read the story, even from the new beginning?
Please, as a many of you as possible, please respond to this in a comment as soon as you can and let me know. If support is in favour of this move, I will follow through with it, though know that it will stop further progress going forward until the reboot is caught up to where we left off.
- Spirit
If you feel a reboot would be an improvement over what you currently have, I'd totally support that!
I think you should rebooted it if your not happy with it, or you could just edit the already existing chapters.
Well, if you really want to then go for it. I haven't actually started the story... mostly because of how long it's been since an update and me fears of getting hooked on a 'dead' story..... again. But it's been high on the list of ones I want to read if I had good reason to think they will be finished. That said...... I dread the idea of 'rebooting' an unfinished story.... because I've seen so many stories that did that, and never finished, just got mired in rewrites till the author gave up. BUT if you think you can get a bit of a kick to get things done by doing that, I say go for it.
well its a bit shame of a shame that you have to restart. but oh well you will fix those problems that i probably didnt notice while reading through it. damn was last time i read the purehearts two years ago? i used to think this was dead fic. well if you want to finish what you started and this story this to shine.
All I ask is that you don't erase the original version. If nothing else it well at least be an interesting look into the development of a story.
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I may still have to overwrite the existing chapters here on fimfiction, but I can leave the link to the original chapters on Google Docs in the description here, if that would work?
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I see no problem with that. It's better than double posting chapters or submitting it as a new story. I'm just one of those guys who hates to see creators take down there old works, even in this case where the story is simply being improved on.
As a reader, I'm always for a creator taking the time to make something as good as they can. As someone who has killed many projects doing exactly this sort of thing, however, it's a scary proposition. Without knowing specifics (like what you feel isn't working, how far along the story is in its current incarnation, etc.) I don't feel it's appropriate for me to try to push you one way or the other.
I will say that I really want to read the story you want to tell, and if what you have so far isn't that, I'm totally behind rewriting. If it's not that far off and you decide to go with it as it stands, I'll be right here waiting for that, too.
Gotta agree with Regolit on this one. If you do remove the old chapters and put in new ones, keep the old ones on a google doc or something, so you can have a reference to go off of. I've found it helps keep things from going too far off track.
I'm speaking from experience here. I did rewrote A Pony of a Different Color after 225,000 words. I'm only on chapter 8 right, from nearly 17 before the rewrite. It's definitely a challenge, but if you believe it to be the right way to do, then I'm sure you'll be happier with the results.
On another note, FimFic story submitter people (whatever you want to call them, the people who go through the submitted stories to allow them onto the site) won't let you resubmit a story you deleted, so rewriting a story is best done by just deleting old chapters and reposting new ones.
Also, I'd definitely re-read it from the beginning.
i am one with the herd and I will follow you where ever you go with this story ...
i would like my story and you story to meet up sometime in the future.
just to be clear..
i like the story very much and would read it again if you rewrote it.
i have a story and because im putting him ( not colt) in the north can we find a way for them to meet up???