A new direction · 12:45am Apr 2nd, 2014
I've been thinking about why I write. It started as a weird compulsion, sure, but that's hardly sustainable. No, what I realized is that I need likes, favorites, and comments. I crave notifications waiting for me every time I visit Fimfiction. It's like a drug. Everything else is unimportant.
Fortunately, I know exactly what to do about this. It's not hard to figure out; one of my stories is massively more popular than all the others. Everybody loved "My Life as an Eldritch Abomination". I just need to write more fanfiction like that.
Consequently, henceforth, I will only be writing stories about Maud Pie. If I absolutely have to have interaction between characters, I may include clones of her. But mostly, it's going to be 100% inner monologue in isolated places. It'll restrict the story ideas I can use, it's true, but it's what will make you all happy, and all I want is for you to be happy so you'll give positive feedback.
Also, I will be deleting all my stories except "My Life as an Eldritch Abomination", because they no longer properly reflect me. It'll be sad to see that piece of my history go, but it's time I moved on.
Not sure if April fools joke or...
Are you actually deleting your other stories? It's a shame if you are...
1976356 I was starting to wonder if anybody was ever going to read this blog post. Though it would be funny in a way if the universe played a joke on me in that nobody even noticed my joke . . .
But, yeah, just a joke. I'm not sure I'm even psychologically capable of deleting a story; it feels so dishonest. And I know I'm not focused enough to commit to only ever writing about one character.
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Okay, you had me worried. I was all, "No one has replied yet, what if he takes that as a hint that nobody cares about his stories, and actually deletes them!??!"
And so I had to reply, and here we are.
Deleting stories is a horrible thing. I have stories that I know people don't care about, but I still can't delete them.