Probably the last update on Smashing Down for the foreseeable future

When I last posted about it, a year ago, I talked about how the Invasion of Ukraine left me unwilling to write it because of the central focus: The Russian team that is the primary POV of the story. Back in 2020, I even started preliminary work on a rewrite, but that was before the invasion, before I started to read up more on military equipment, and before I improved further as a writer.

To put it simply, Smashing Down is not going to be continuing in the near future. The only time I will consider writing for it again is when the Russian invasion has ended, to avoid putting something offensive - or offensively stupid - on paper. Whether it ends in 2023, 2024, or in the future, that's when you'll get a rewrite, if at all.

If you want to view the single, short chapter I wrote, what was to be the prologue to the rewrite, you can find it here.

_{No, but seriously, my writing was dogshit back in the day. I'd never handled a firearm, I used Wikipedia as a reference for equipment, I google translated text for a few giant blocks of text in Russian, and the primary character was an Estonian who was in the Russian MVD, which is the most historically illiterate and offensive move I could have done that I had no idea about at the time, because I started writing this story when I was sixteen and now I'm twenty-six.}