Happy New Year and considerations · 3:58pm Jan 3rd, 2017
First off, a belated Happy New Year to you all!
Secondly, the results of my hiatus (or perhaps, my hiatus thus far...)
Now, I don't want to just give up on a story that I started writing. It's something I wound up doing back when I was writing Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction with my friends and we wound up abandoning a whole bunch of fun ideas we had and leaving the readers on a massive cliff-hanger.
I also don't want to go back and change parts of a story that I've already written and published. As I've said before, I'm a writer who stands by what he's written so going back and changing things that I deemed worthy of putting out for the world to see just feels unprofessional.
But darn it, something about this story, or at least the part I've been trying to write, just isn't working out. I can't draw the pieces of what I want to happen together without it all turning into a big meandering mess that feels overly padded. And the absolute last thing I want is for this to become another Boast Backers where I spend months waffling on a single chapter and take years to finish. I know I can write good stories in less time than that.
Perhaps I just planned this one out too far in advance and then just started noticing the flaws. Or maybe I came up with a few too many new ideas for it mid-writing and am now realizing I can't possibly work them all in, but the story falls apart without them. Either way, it's tempting me to break one of my cardinal rules.
I mean, I've changed ideas and tried to rework stories slightly before due to negative feedback from my readers. If I look back and decide I'm not happy with what I posted after all, if I feel like I somehow can't move forward from it...
Then perhaps I should rewrite and change things in some earlier chapters. Or take the story down and start it from the beginning. I know there's folks out there that like it as-is but I just can't shake this feeling so... thoughts? Opinions? I'll take anything right now.
First off happy new year! Second off I like the story as is. If you feel that you should maybe you should go back to the past chapters and modify them as you see fit to do.
4367488 I agree with you on that.
just take some advice from this guy https://www.fimfiction.net/user/Viking+ZX he has tips on writeing that he puts in blog post that might help
Pretty much what 4367488 says here. If there's changes to be made and they're not too big overall, just change what needs to be changed.
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Now as glad as I am to hear encouragement like this, a lot of the tips that 4367609 linked to do resonate with me. Especially what he put up as his New Year's post.
It's not that I like the idea of giving up on a story but when I'm stuck rewriting the same scene over and over because I can't make myself happy with it I have to wonder if it's worth the effort. I drove myself through it with Boast Backers because that was a majorly important story to the Flipverse as a whole. This one...
I don't want to say a story is unimportant, but thinking it over not finishing this story wouldn't be the total end of an era or anything. I could always come up with a different Mac-focused story if it came down to it.
Whichever I wind up doing I'm gonna need to think it seems and I'd probably wind up (at least temporarily) taking down what I posted whether I'm just reworking the story or cancelling outright...
4368269 um just so you know you cant take a story down and repost it, its agenst the rules of fimfiction