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Merchent343


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  • 50 weeks
    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.

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  • 111 weeks
    Rewriting Smashing Down: How the Pandemic and the Invasion of Ukraine smothered most of my will to rewrite it

    The title is descriptive enough, but I don't think I need to tell any of you how rough 2020 was. For me, 2020 and 2021 were both years of stress, near-homelessness, loss, joblessness, and many other difficulties. Writing slowed, and then stopped.

    And then, once I was finally pulling myself together, the invasion of Ukraine happened.

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  • 197 weeks
    On Rewriting Smashing Down, And Writing Again

    I have tried thrice to rewriting Smashing Down, or to pick up where I last left off. Every time, I am reminded that the story was written when I was sixteen, in 2013. My writing back then was decent enough to get attention, but I look back on a lot of it with embarrassment, for a large variety of reasons.

    Smashing Down, as it stands, cannot be rewritten.

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  • 322 weeks
    Sometimes, to make something better, you have to burn it down first...

    I last posted an update nearly two years ago stating that I would be editing Smashing Down. That turned out to be a lie, a task I gave up on several months and barely a couple chapters in. Within that time, I have become a far better writer, and thought up far better ways to introduce the story and setting in a way that will both make more sense and make for a far more interesting story than the

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  • 408 weeks
    On the future of Smashing Down

    I should warn you that the following will contain criticism of my writing and my plans for what to do with Smashing Down.

    It was one of my first stories, and certainly one that gained a fair bit of popularity. It even hit the front page a few times on FimFiction. Plenty of people have enjoyed it, and it maintains a very good like ratio.

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May
6th
2014

Kinda-sorta disaster (Medical-related) · 11:18pm May 6th, 2014

I had a ruptured appendix. Said appendix needed to be surgically removed. Recovery will end at the end of this week.

Taking pain medication now.

Report Merchent343 · 372 views · Story: Smashing Down ·
Comments ( 13 )

Good luck bro.

Damn, that sucks.

I hope you get better.

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Seriously, my everything hurts. I was released from the hospital only two hours ago.

get well soon

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I know that feeling, I had to get surgery done on my legs. It was excruciating, especially since there was traffic on the way home. I recommend going to sleep, your brain will block out the pain long enough for it to dissipate to a bearable level.

Well, that's pretty bad, but now you got access to pain medication, so you got that going for you, which is nice.

Hope you get better laddie. Until then, have my favourite RoF movie. And never forget Second Lieutenant Chastely.

Ow man, get well soon! :twilightsmile:

I know your pain hope you get better soon and take care
also avoid laughing so much its actually painful right now :pinkiesad2:

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Everything that Hollywood and everybody else has said about pain medication is a lie. Same situation for those things they use to knock you out before surgery. All I did was grow a bit sleepy and the pain slowed, it's not as if they suddenly become super-WEED, or something like that.

A week of bed rest before I get to go out again, in the last few weeks of school. Fun.

List of things that hurt: Laughing, breathing, getting up, sitting down, walking, rolling over in bed, talking too much, any speed above a crawl, laying on my stomach, sitting still, and any movement that has the possibility of moving the center of my body. In short, my everything.

2087545 Well, you can always have someone knock you unconscious, then the pain will go away. :raritywink:

Anyways, hope you feel better soon, can't let Eagle get away from his rape. :rainbowwild:

2087545 i am sorry to hear this. i hope you feel better soon.

Get well soon, brah.:moustache:

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